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Some rank-and-file officers, however, often do not share their administrators' enthusiasm{{Verify source|date=June 2009}}. One of the reasons for this may be a lack of clarity with respect to organizational goals. Policing has from the beginning had a lack of clarity of organizational goals, and the introduction of POP does not always solve the problem. Consequently, rank and file officers assuming this lack of clarity concern will be resolved by POP and are disappointed when that is not done. Poorly defined or ambiguous goals can lead to stress and frustration. Another possible source of rank-and-file discontent is militant police unionism in which union leadership sees POP as an expansion of police duties and attempts to include these duties into collective bargaining.

A further sourcessource of frustration by some officers is the conflict between the administration's community policing mandate and the continuing need to respond to calls for service{{Verify source|date=June 2009}}.

== Significant impacts of POP policy ==