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1. Sharing Law Enforcement Services ICJIA Shared Services
2. The Law Enforcement Landscape 18,000 state and local law enforcement agencies in US Much different from other countries: Canada 80, England 40, Japan 50 765,000 sworn personnel 49% employ less than 10 full-time officers 2/3 of officers work for agencies with 100 or more sworn officers ICJIA Shared Services
3. Police Expenditure 1982-2007 ICJIA Shared Services
4. Fragmentation is Good… Local control Career choices Bigger is not necessarily better ICJIA Shared Services
5. … and Bad Offenders do not recognize jurisdictional boundaries Crime control strategy should be more regional Duplication of facilities, communications, equipment, etc. Peer emulation Duplication of administration Requires more police officers ICJIA Shared Services
6. Consider Minimum Staffing WPD EPD 3 officers, 1 sgt. 3 officers, 1 sgt. ICJIA Shared Services
7. Forms of Sharing Functional Consolidation Regionalization Metropolitan / City-County Consolidation Contracting Local Merger Public Safety ICJIA Shared Services
8. Functional Consolidation Combined Dispatch Regional Drug and Vehicle Theft Groups Major Crime Task Forces Major Crash Assistance Team (MCAT) Regional SWAT Team ICJIA Shared Services
9. Regional Policing Northern York County Regional Police Department Formed in 1972 2 Boroughs, 6 Townships 50 sworn officers Each municipality selects a commissioner About 30 regional agencies in PA ICJIA Shared Services
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11. Metro / City-County Consolidation Nashville Las Vegas Savannah – Chatham Indianapolis Jacksonville - Duval County Louisville – Jefferson County ICJIA Shared Services
12. Generally offered by sheriff King County Washington Contracting ICJIA Shared Services
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14. Local Merger Winter Park/Fraser Police Colorado 2005 Winter Park serves as the managing partner Winter Park is responsible for managing all employment matters, insurance, and other related matters All personnel are employees of Winter Park The Police Chief reports directly to the Fraser Town Manager and Winter Park Town Manager All Police Officers are sworn to serve and protect both municipalities ICJIA Shared Services
15. Public Safety Change in Fire Industry About 130 fully integrated departments Very efficient Traverse City Michigan employs 43% more sworn officers (police and fire) than the similar cities with public safety COPS Study ICJIA Shared Services
16. Why Consolidations Fail Citizens value local control Most public safety executives and staff are content with their organizations and see no particular benefit to change-personal stake Organizations, even small ones, tend to place great emphasis on their unique identity Strong opposition from employee groups Expected cost savings are often not realized ICJIA Shared Services
17. Willowbrook-Burr Ridge 2007 Shared a border Each had about 26 sworn officers 2006 hours on calls for service Willowbrook 4335 Hours Burr Ridge 4346 Hours.  Main motivation was a new building and concern about sustainability ICJIA Shared Services
18. Process Internal Committee Outside consultant Two-stage No job loss Conducted separate analysis of each agency and then described what the new one would look like. ICJIA Shared Services
19. Major Issues Workload analysis indicated that a combined department could be one half of the size of the two agencies Chiefs were supportive but cautious Significant resistance from employee groups Uneven support from village boards “No job loss” made savings seem very remote ICJIA Shared Services
20. Ideas can Re-emerge “Burr Ridge, Willowbrook, Clarendon Hills and Hinsdale officials are weighing whether to combine the villages’ police departments in an effort to save money and operate more efficiently”. Chicago Tribune 2-1- 2010. ICJIA Shared Services
21. Holland, Michigan 2008 Study commissioned when both the police and fire chiefs announced their retirement Separate studies of police and fire High quality organizations with some inefficiencies Study moved very slowly No agenda! ICJIA Shared Services
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23. Traverse City Workload Analysis 2010 Citizen committee made sweeping recommendations for reducing costs of government Consultant engaged to look at police Unlike Holland, study moved very quickly ICJIA Shared Services
24. Key Issues How many officers were required Opportunities for sharing services What about public safety Costs for sheriff’s road patrol ICJIA Shared Services
25. Sharing Services TCPD had excess capacity in patrol GTSD provided both general fund road patrol and under contract. Garfield Township TCPD and GTSD are highly integrated ICJIA Shared Services
26. What is Traverse City? ICJIA Shared Services
27. Concluding Thoughts Shared services must maintain or improve perceived quality Sharing services can be more effective and efficient-but implementation can be difficult Very often sharing of services emerges as a result of intransigence. “There is only one way to do this!” ICJIA Shared Services
28. Focus on the Positive “Far too much energy is wasted on considering what the police cannot do and what commanders do not have; valuable time and momentum are lost by focusing on these negatives.” Ron Serpas, Chief NOPD ICJIA Shared Services
29. Questions Alex Weiss 847-332-1160 847-644-3930 (mobile) aweiss@alexanderweissconsulting.com ICJIA Shared Services