Consultant presents College Station police staffing report to the city council
Apr 19, 2019 ·
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The College Station city council at its last meeting received a consultant's report on future staffing needs at the police department. Consultant Tim Freesmeyer's 30 minute presentation boils down to...
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The College Station city council at its last meeting received a consultant's report on future staffing needs at the police department.
Consultant Tim Freesmeyer's 30 minute presentation boils down to two things...adding 48 positions over the next three years and changing how officers are deployed.
The results of the study showed that the Patrol Division is spending more than the recommended amount of time per hour on reactive activities. To reduce the time, the consultant recommends hiring 16 more patrol officers this year.
Another recommendation calls for adding 25 positions over the next two years to free up sergeants to property supervise.
Three years from now, the consultant recommends adding another seven positions to a total staff size of 95 patrol officers.
And the consultant is calling for more first line supervisors and managers...in order to maintain proper spans of control, given the number of new and potentially young officers that will be coming on board.
The consultant came up with a different work schedule, which is supposed to equalize the workload for the officers and theoretically could lead to a decreased need for overtime. The theory is to distribute officers proportionally to the department's workload.
Freesmeyer's report called for the College Station police department's recruitment and training division to add a second police assistant and a third training officer.
As for CSPD's criminal investigations division, Freesmeyer called for adding two more investigators and two additional assistants. He does not recommend additional staff in CSPD's special investigations unit.
CSPD is also responsible for College Station's 9-1-1 dispatchers, which was not part of the consultant's study.
Among the questions from council members, was about CSPD's effort to retain officers. Chief Scott McCollum says significant headway has been made in the last year to keep officers and other CSPD employees.
And McCollum says they have been modifying their recruitment efforts to look for experienced officers from more urban cities.
On the summary page of the nearly 100 page report, Freesmeyer writes "In times of economic scarcity, “that’s the way we have always done it” is no longer a viable management model."
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Consultant Tim Freesmeyer's 30 minute presentation boils down to two things...adding 48 positions over the next three years and changing how officers are deployed.
The results of the study showed that the Patrol Division is spending more than the recommended amount of time per hour on reactive activities. To reduce the time, the consultant recommends hiring 16 more patrol officers this year.
Another recommendation calls for adding 25 positions over the next two years to free up sergeants to property supervise.
Three years from now, the consultant recommends adding another seven positions to a total staff size of 95 patrol officers.
And the consultant is calling for more first line supervisors and managers...in order to maintain proper spans of control, given the number of new and potentially young officers that will be coming on board.
The consultant came up with a different work schedule, which is supposed to equalize the workload for the officers and theoretically could lead to a decreased need for overtime. The theory is to distribute officers proportionally to the department's workload.
Freesmeyer's report called for the College Station police department's recruitment and training division to add a second police assistant and a third training officer.
As for CSPD's criminal investigations division, Freesmeyer called for adding two more investigators and two additional assistants. He does not recommend additional staff in CSPD's special investigations unit.
CSPD is also responsible for College Station's 9-1-1 dispatchers, which was not part of the consultant's study.
Among the questions from council members, was about CSPD's effort to retain officers. Chief Scott McCollum says significant headway has been made in the last year to keep officers and other CSPD employees.
And McCollum says they have been modifying their recruitment efforts to look for experienced officers from more urban cities.
On the summary page of the nearly 100 page report, Freesmeyer writes "In times of economic scarcity, “that’s the way we have always done it” is no longer a viable management model."
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