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Date: November 22, 2024 Fri
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1 results foundAuthor: Chicago. Office of Inspector General Title: Review of Opportunities for Civilianization in the Chicago Police Department Summary: The Inspector General's Office (IGO) performed an analysis of opportunities to civilianize positions in the Chicago Police Department (CPD). We examined 30 units within CPD that perform primarily non-law enforcement functions and evaluated whether each position currently filled by a full-duty sworn officer could instead be filled by a civilian. The IGO analysis covering 370 full-duty sworn positions concluded that 292 full-time equivalent positions, or 79 percent, could be filled by civilians because they require neither the police powers granted to a sworn officer by State statute, nor the skills, knowledge, or experience specific to sworn officers. Many of the positions recommended for civilianization involve purely administrative tasks such as timekeeping, scheduling, data entry, handling phone calls, and arranging travel. Other positions require professional training not specific to police work, such as lawyers, nurses, chaplains, graphic designers, information technology specialists, accountants, and grant writers. The City could save an estimated 16 to 41 percent per position through civilianization, for a total annual savings of $6.4 million to $16.6 million depending on the salary paid to the replacement civilians. Based on our analysis, the IGO makes two recommendations: 1. CPD should civilianize the 292 full-time equivalent positions identified in this analysis. Civilianization could be implemented in one of three ways: (a) Civilianize the 292 non-enforcement positions through attrition by redeploying the sworn officers currently holding these positions into the field as vacancies in sworn enforcement positions occur, and by hiring civilians to fill the non-enforcement positions; (b) Eliminate the 292 sworn positions and hire 292 civilians; or (c) Immediately deploy all 292 sworn officers currently in non-enforcement positions to new enforcement positions, and fill the non-enforcement positions with civilians. The last option would add 292 sworn officers to enforcement positions and 292 civilians to non-enforcement positions, thus increasing total CPD headcount and personnel costs. While savings would still be achieved in the civilianized positions, total personnel costs would be higher due to the overall addition of 292 employees. 2. CPD should conduct a similar analysis for each unit. The IGO's analysis was limited to 30 primarily non-law enforcement units that were most likely to contain positions that could potentially be civilized. There are likely to be more positions in the Department that could be civilianized. The Department should conduct a civilianization analysis of all of those other units to identify additional positions that could be civilianized. Details: Chicago: Office of Inspector General, 2013. 61p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 21, 2017 at: http://chicagoinspectorgeneral.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/IGO-Opportunities-for-Civilianization-within-CPD-Final-1-23-13.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United States URL: http://chicagoinspectorgeneral.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/IGO-Opportunities-for-Civilianization-within-CPD-Final-1-23-13.pdf Shelf Number: 146332 Keywords: Civilian EmployeesCivilian PersonnelCivilian Police Officers Civilian Police PersonnelCosts of PolicingPolice Personnel |