Organizational DNA Change is trying to happen in a rural Pacific Northwest police department (PD), nestled in the corner of the peninsula Olympic Games in Washington. This department serves a diverse population of 9,000 people and spans approximately 4 square miles, as well as being surrounded by water on three of its four sides. When evaluating police departments, according to state and national averages, they are undersized relative to the population they serve. As would be expected, this is a department with a long and rich history spanning 126 years JCHS (2014). Moreover, like the majority of all municipal services, it has had its ups and downs, suffered and prospered through good and bad administrations. Organizational Environment This is a picture of the organizational environment that encompasses the PD, Butterfield & Ferris (1974). The PD provides a wide variety of services to its community, including a school resource officer, detective services, loss prevention and mitigation services, domestic violence training, vacation checks, school audits, background for public and private sector employees, as well as all others. normal functions that a police department would provide to its community. The Butterfield & Ferris (1974) mission of the PD is to protect the community as a whole and to develop and maintain good working relationships with businesses, the public and its visitors as well as its critics. The PD's core values ​​and skills are honesty, integrity and value of service. The PD retains several agents who, by themselves, constitute several of the core competencies within the PD. These include Master Physical Techniques Instructor, Master Taser Instructor, Master Fitness Instructor, Master E...... middle of article...... System 4 theory in Brazil . Journal of Applied Psychology, 59(1), 15-23. doi:10.1037/h0035835JCHS (2014). Jefferson County Historical Society: Archives, City of Port Townsend, 1996.140.25a. Retrieved from http://www.jchswa.org/Kotter, JP and Cohen, DS (2002). At the heart of change: real stories about how people are changing their organizations. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. Nelson, G.L., Burger, C., and Pigorini, P. (2014). Organizational DNA: Booze & Co., organizational design and organizational DNA, org DNA profiler™ survey, on the managed organization. Retrieved from http://www.booz.com/global/home/what_we_do/services/organization_change/orgdna/overmanaged?cohscore=20&CFID=152953&CFTOKEN=60185726NIST (2010). Baldrige Performance Excellence Program: preparing your organizational profile. Accessed from http://www.nist.gov/baldrige/enter/self_org_profile.cfm