Workload-Based Patrol Allocation and Scheduling

Using audited CAD and payroll data to:

• Measure patrol workload
• Determine beat design
• Identify optimal shifts & schedules
• Quantify relief factors
• Set minimum staffing levels by hour of day and day of week
• Allocate officer time according to targeted percentages for call response, proactive & community policing, and administrative tasks

Implementing Agency-Wide Community Policing

• Expanding the role of community policing from a specialized unit to an agency-wide operation;
• Developing training and evaluation standards

Strategic Planning

• Facilitate the decision-making process of management
• Data gathering and analysis
• Identify external factors and forces of community change
• Assess present and future needs for public safety & crime control

Applying Risk Management

• Identifying and quantifying risk
• Minimizing impacts of risk and loss
• Predicting and managing risk Program Evaluation
• Defining clear, specific, and measurable program goals
• Selecting research design and data sampling methods
• Assessing hard & soft cost implications
• Evaluating objective and subjective outputs versus outcomes
• Case examples

Tactical, Strategic, and Administrative Crime Analysis

• Collecting/collating/analyzing crime data
• Creating tools (trends, charts, bulletins, maps, graphs, etc.) to get information to officers, government, and the public
• Identifying intervention techniques
• Applying new technology in gathering and manipulating crime information

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

• Control crime, behavior, and access
• Designing crime out of buildings/places
• Encourage natural surveillance
• Apply technical standards (lighting, landscaping, signage, etc.) to new and existing developments and properties

Requests for Proposals

• Preparing written specifications
• Ensuring a level playing field
• Evaluating vendor proposals

Problem Solving

• Neighborhood-based initiatives
• Preventing problems using community mobilization and partnerships

Capital Facilities Planning

• Creating a strong business case for constructing or renovating police facilities
• Assessing needs
• Conducting comparative analyses
• Project design and budgeting
• Project coordination

Information Technology Planning

• Conducting automation needs assessments
• Developing a five-year plan for implementing technology and information systems

Writing Policy Manuals

• Understanding the need for written policies, and drafting and presenting them accordingly
• Preparing documentation in accordance with CALEA accreditation standards
• Formatting and publishing information for optimal accessibility

Project Management Principles

• Project Manager's role
• Skills and tools to be utilized
• PERT and GANTT charts
• Developing successful projects