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1 results foundAuthor: Strategic Policy Partnership Title: The Department in Review, Cincinnati Police Department Summary: This report presents the results of review or "audit" of the Cincinnati Police Department, undertaken at the request of Chief James Craig. The objective of this review was to assess current structure, operations, and systems within the Cincinnati Police Department against national standards, identifying strategies that were notable for their effectiveness and needed to be protected, areas that needed strengthening and areas that needed major reform. Overall, the department is a police agency that has made significant strides toward excellence in a number of areas over the last five years. A number of notable initiatives have been undertaken, such as the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV), which has won several national awards. The quality of the police officers with whom the review staff interacted was notable, having a strong commitment to Cincinnati and its future. Since the riots that occurred some years ago, the department has worked hard to build trust with the Cincinnati community experiencing substantial success. Key recommendations resulting from the review are the following: the organization is somewhat top heavy, overly specialized and in need of more robust performance management processes; a greater percentage of police officers need to be assigned to the Police Districts as opposed to specialized assignments, with District Commanders held accountable for how those officers are used to address the major concerns of District neighborhoods; the relationship between investigations of felonious assault cases and homicides needs to be strengthened. Presently, Districts investigate the assaults and Investigations investigate homicides. They are in reality often the same event - except that in a homicide the victim has died; the department needs to strengthen its commitment to victims of crime, who often are traumatized from the crime event and need regular information from the investigating officer; the successful CIRV strategy against violent crime needs to be re-vitalized and focused. Having had excellent success in its initial years, it has become a bit disorganized in the last year but has the potential to dramatically further violent crime in the community; the department needs to be restructured, merging related units and activities, reducing staffing in some so that additional personnel can be moved to patrol assignments; there is a strong need for the department to move forward at a fast pace with its technology initiatives, since they can dramatically increase the information flow in the department and that made available to field personnel; performance management through the CompStat process and the related Problem-Oriented Policing process needs to become a cornerstone of strategic thinking about how crime prevention should occur; the community must be brought into the department processes of policy development, strategy and tactics. Details: West Tisbury, MA: Strategic Policy Partnership, 2012. 147. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 12, 2012 at http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/city/downloads/city_pdf44990.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/city/downloads/city_pdf44990.pdf Shelf Number: 124092 Keywords: Police AdministrationPolice OrganizationPolicing (Cincinnati, Ohio) |