In her first major speech in the post, May said she was offering the police a "radical new deal" under which they would be offered wider professional discretion and operational freedom from Whitehall bureaucracy in return for increased local accountability.
By integrating different uses of budgeting with other management controls, the processes of "continuous budgeting" encouraged managers to use their discretion in operational matters when confronted by unexpected events.
To encourage states to set up the exchanges, federal officials said, they will give state officials broad discretion to decide the operational details.
Moreover, by definition, arrest data are dependent on local and State statutes and also are highly sensitive to enforcement capacity and practices as well as operational changes and recording practices, including police discretion (Gruenewald et al. 1997).
In the 46-page report, submitted on Friday and released late that night, Israeli authorities admitted some "operational lapses and errors in the exercise of discretion".
It's perfectly possible to exercise a bit of discretion and hold back on pay awards that are plainly inappropriate, even if certain operational targets included in the policy have been met".
Virgin's results have a caveat about the £3bn investment which says: "Depending on a variety of factors, including the financial and operational results of the earlier phases of the programme, the UK Network Extension may be modified or cancelled at our discretion".
To the extent that reliance on technology and the introduction of novel actors drive informatic discretion beyond the influence of national authorities, this phenomenon is likely to be exacerbated by instances of technological and operational convergence.
Discretion means more MOPPS.
Discretion is everything".
