What are some of the kinds of factors of policing a workload analysis would consider?

What will be an ideal response?


A workload analysis should be completed at least every three years to ensure the department has adequate staff to address the needs of the community and allow for strategic planning. Many agencies strive to achieve a "recommended officers per 1,000 population" or a "national standard" for staffing. The best use of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports is for an agency to compare itself from year to year. Note, too, that calls for service (CFS) are used instead of crime rates as workload indicators. Typically, only a small percent of a police department's CFS are crime-related in nature; much more common are CFS for order-maintenance duties. Therefore, it is far better for a police leader to divide officers' time into calls for service, administrative duties, and community policing and problem-solving and use these statistics rather than the crime rate to justify staffing requests.

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