Creating Policies & Procedures

Can anyone point me in the right direction? As the new IT manager of a small company it quickly became apparent that my predecessors never created any Policies or Procedures. In this company IT serves all department requests and as such, is part of the Administrative group. It is my task to create the Policies & Procedures and document them. I have assisted in, and created some of the Policies & Procedures for the IT/MIS department in the past, but not from scratch. Do any of you have some goodsuggestions for this as it has far reaching implications. I look forward to the challenge and hope for some good words of wisdom from you all.

Regards,

CJL