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REV: 07-22-22 RL CPSM has found that the most effective way to manage operations, including policing, is to make decisions based upon the interpretation and analysis of data and information. To achieve this, a data analysis of police department workload, staffing and deployment will be conducted. By objectively looking at the availability of deployed hours and comparing those to the hours necessary to conduct operations, staffing expansion and/or reductions can be determined and projected. Additionally, the time necessary to conduct proactive police activities (such as team-led enforcement, directed patrol, community policing and selected traffic enforcement) will be reviewed to provide the city with a meaningful methodology to determine appropriate costing allocation models. Workload vs. Calls for Service (CFS) CFS is a number – Workload is the cumulative time it takes to handle the call for service, including all responding officers. A burglary if one call for service. However, if three officers respond and two are there for an hour and the third is there for 30 minutes the Workload is 2 ½ hours. Once an analysis of the actual workload is made, then a determination can be made as to the amount of discretionary patrol time that should exist. The CPSM study will result in the calculation of service demands placed on the department, workload levels, service times for calls for service, and response times. This information is developed by first extracting data from the departments CAD system. The extracted information is then processed, and workload is calculated. This workload is then compared to deployment levels. The product of this analysis is the variance between service demands and available personnel, and appropriate recommendations made for staffing levels and an optimal deployment schedule to meet these service demands. This permits exploration of the following questions: ▪ Based on the workload is the shift schedule aligned appropriately and what alternatives to the current shift plan are most efficient? ▪ How many police officers and supervisors are needed to staff the patrol function to meet the workload demands placed on the agency? ▪ How long does it take to respond to calls for service (both response time and total time) and what ways are there to reduce these times? ▪ How many officers are assigned to each call and what are the ways to minimize these assignments? ▪ What categories of call, and in what frequency, does the agency handle and what measures can be adopted to minimize unnecessary responses? The study will determine the gaps in patrol coverage and recommendations for modifying temporal and spatial deployment. With the appropriate “best fit” of patrol coverage identified, a determination can be made about the exact number of officers required to meet service demands, and in what shift/district/division combinations to maximize resources. ATTY/AGR.2022.188/Center for Public Safety Management, LLC. (Page 12 of 15)