WS - E - Analysis of Police Department Staffing

International City/County Management Association (ICMA) The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) is a 100 year old, non-profit professional association of local government administrators and managers, with approximately 9,000 members located in 32 countries. Since its inception in 1914, ICMA has been dedicated to assisting local governments in providing services to its citizens in an efficient and effective manner. Our work spans all of the activities of local government – parks, libraries, recreation, public works, economic development, code enforcement, Brownfield’s, public safety, etc. ICMA advances the knowledge of local government best practices across a wide range of platforms including publications, research, training, and technical assistance. Our work includes both domestic and international activities in partnership with local, state and federal governments as well as private foundations. For example, we are involved in a major library research project funded by the Bill and Linda Gates Foundation and we are providing community policing training in Panama working with the U.S. State Department. We have personnel in Afghanistan assisting with building wastewater treatment plants and have teams in Central America providing training in disaster relief working with SOUTHCOM. The ICMA Center for Public Safety Management (ICMA/CPSM) One of four Centers within the US Programs Division of ICMA it provide support to local governments in the areas of police, fire, EMS, Emergency Management and Homeland Security. In addition to providing technical assistance in these areas we also represent local governments at the federal level and are involved in numerous projects with the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security. ICMA/CPSM is also involved in police and fire chief selection; assisting local governments in identifying these critical managers thru original research we have conducted identifying the core competencies of police and fire managers and providing assessment center resources. Our local government technical assistance includes workload and deployment analysis, using Operations Research techniques and credentialed experts to identify workload and staffing needs as well as best practices. We have conducted approximately 190 such studies in 32 states and 91 communities ranging in size from 8,000 population Boone, IA to 800,000 population Indianapolis, IN. Ph.D. Professor James McCabe, Senior Associate, ICMA Center for Public Safety Management James E. McCabe, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Sacred Heart University. He is also the Chair of the Criminal Justice Department and Director of the Graduate Program. He is a 21-year veteran of the New York City Police Department. During his NYPD career, he held numerous assignments including the Commander of the Office of Labor Relations, the Commander of the Training Bureau and Police Academy, the 110th Precinct, as well as numerous other operational and managerial assignments. His research interests include police organizational behavior, police-community interactions and how the dynamics of quality-of-life enforcement affects crime levels and community safety. Contact the ICMA Center for Public Safety Management For more information on the Center for Public Safety Management and how it can assist your agency please contact: Thomas Wieczorek, Director ICMA/CPSM, 202-962-3607, [email protected] Leonard Matarese, Director of Research, ICMA/CPSM, 716-969-1360, [email protected] 2