Communication is sometimes difficult in a traditional bureaucratic form. Most government agencies are designed as a bureaucratic agency and communication is lacking between agencies in Criminal Justice field. The five steps of communication are; encoding, transmitting, channel, receiving and decoding (Criminal Justice Organization 2012). Communication can be improved in this type of organization in many different ways such as, staff meetings, affiliated agencies sending memos and relationships between supervisors and regular employees. Staff meeting is a good way for information to be sent and received to individuals in an organization. For example, in roll call at my police department, the supervisors discuss crimes that occurred and what is the daily objective. It is also important that we receive memos from other departments of what is occurring in their area to be familiar with what is going on in the community. It is sometimes difficult to receive information from surrounding local agencies because there is no central communication system. There is a new system in the State of Georgia called Georgia Crime Information Center (GCIC), which allow agencies to communicate with each other about individuals who are wanted, stolen properties and stolen vehicles. This Central database has led to the apprehension of a lot of criminals because law enforcement officers are able to find out instantly what the violator is wanted for or the property they have in their possession is stolen. This system also allows law enforcement officers to enter data with in forty eight hours if they have warrants or stolen property that they need to report.
Since the advancement of technology, communication has increased drastically in criminal justice field. For example, as a police officer, I communicate more with my supervisors through email rather than face to face conversations,