21CP offers a 21st-century approach to assessing a police department’s staffing needs by examining workload, community expectations, and alternatives to a police response to 911 calls.
At 21CP, we recognize that understanding the staffing needs of a police department requires a comprehensive approach.
That's why we've teamed up with AH Datalytics and the Knoxville, TN Police Department. Together, we've developed an easy-to-use, interactive dashboard that accurately projects staffing needs based on the organization's priorities and community expectations, instilling confidence in the credibility and reliability of the proposed approach to meeting those expectations.
21CP now offers this model and approach to our clients. This staffing model provides an interactive dashboard, efficient analysis of data, and visualizations that will significantly improve police executives’ ability to understand and demonstrate their staffing needs to city officials and the community.
21CP is uniquely positioned to assist police departments, community members, and executive decision-makers in optimizing their public safety service delivery. Our approach offers the following benefits:
We will analyze calls for service to determine the frequency and time spent handling types of calls.
We will work with you to identify the administrative time demands on officers like training, report filing, attending court dates, scheduled days off, vacation, and sick days to calculate a relief factor.
You can set several factors based on policy decisions, such as time spent in community engagement and proactive policing activities.
We will work with you to identify calls for service that could be handled in alternative ways, such as through telephone or electronic reporting or non-police response and show you the staffing impact of such alternatives.
You will have staffing levels based on an ‘as is’ baseline, which assumes that the work demands will remain constant, and a ‘could be’ staffing based on different policy decisions and responses to calls for service.
We are leaving with you the interactive dashboard model built on your data and the capability to use the dashboard to test future policy options and workload demands.