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1 results foundAuthor: Demers, Simon Title: Vancouver Police Department Patrol Deployment Study Summary: In September 2003, the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) embarked on a strategic planning exercise, followed by a study to identify the Department’s overall staffing requirements. The result was the creation of the VPD Strategic Plan 2004-2008, which articulates the VPD’s vision of becoming “Canada’s leader in policing – providing safety for all.” The VPD Strategic Plan identified several policing priorities including implementing best practices and improving community safety by: Reducing property crime Reducing violence against the vulnerable Reducing violence caused by gangs and guns Improving traffic safety Reducing street disorder In October 2004, the VPD completed the long-range Staffing Report. This report presented a request for an increase of 469 officers and 170 civilian staff over and above existing authorized levels of 1,124 and 231.5 respectively over a five year period. Following the publication of the 2004 Staffing Report, the City and the Vancouver Police Board agreed to create a Steering Committee who hired a team of consultants from the University College of the Fraser Valley (UCFV) to conduct an independent review of the VPD’s staffing needs. The consultants identified an immediate need for an increase of 92 sworn officers and 55 civilians. A major concern of the consultants was the unacceptably high response times for priority 1 calls (emergency calls that require immediate police attention). They also identified a serious shortage of analytical and planning staff in the Planning and Research Section (P&R) who could conduct proper quantitative analysis.The authors of the Review of the Vancouver Police Department’s Staffing Requirements noted that the VPD did not, at the time the staffing report was prepared, have the capacity to conduct regular analysis of data on calls for service, response times and utilization rates. As well, the Department had only a limited capacity to conduct the types of analyses that would be required to determine appropriate staffing levels and conduct intelligence-led policing, a best practice in North American police services. The authors also noted that a key indicator of the ability of a police service to meet the demands for service is the response time to priority 1 calls. These are emergency or high priority calls for service that are potentially life threatening and require immediate police attention. An analysis of the VPD dispatch data revealed that the average response time for patrol units to priority 1 calls was the slowest in North America and well above the best practice of 7 minutes. The consultants underlined that these slow response times were placing the community at risk and required immediate attention. Ultimately, the Review of the Vancouver Police Department’s Staffing Requirements recommended that a study of patrol deployment be conducted in order to: 1. Determine the number of sworn officers and supervisors required now and in the immediate future. 2. Prepare a plan for deploying the required number of patrol officers and supervisors most cost-effectively, by shift and patrol area, in response to temporal and geographic incidence of crime, demands for non-crime services, and the policing approach selected by the department. 3. Develop schedules for assigning required manpower most productively and equitably. This report presents the results of this study. Details: Vancouver, BC: Vancouver Police Department, 2007. 1335p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 10, 2011 at: http://vancouver.ca/police/assets/pdf/studies/vpd-study-patrol-deployment.pdf Year: 2007 Country: Canada URL: http://vancouver.ca/police/assets/pdf/studies/vpd-study-patrol-deployment.pdf Shelf Number: 120743 Keywords: Police Administration (Vancouver, BC)Police Patrol (Vancouver, BC)Policing |