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Proposal for a Police Department Staffing Needs Assessment San Leandro, CA Matrix Consulting Group Page 18 Task 4 Diagnostic Assessment of Current Operations. The project team will develop a detailed list of issues to use in a diagnostic assessment of the Police Department, using a combination of benchmarks, comparisons with best practice assessments and other agencies in order to identify issues areas in department staffing, organization, and operations management. The standards used in this assessment represent the project team’s experience working with police agencies over the past 30+ years, as well as national standards from other organizations (e.g., CALEA, IACP, etc.). These would be examined from the perspective of smaller departments. The project team will use the data collected, as well as additional research on other agencies, to assess the degree to which services or service levels conform to ‘prevailing best practices’. This task will analyze workload levels by functional area and will be utilized to identify potential challenges (and strengths) of the organization. The City will be provided with an initial diagnostic assessment of current resource allocations. The service, staffing and management targets form the basis of a performance management system. TASK RESULT The project team will create a diagnostic assessment in order to identify preliminary issue areas relevant to the study. The document will provide analysis on each area of the San Leandro Police Department, and define its service level targets, whether these are able to be met, and next steps for further analysis in the study. Task 5 Analysis of Current Staffing Needs. The project team will develop a comprehensive analysis of staffing needs for every function of the Department, including its multi-agency dispatch services. While different analytical factors and processes are used to determine staffing needs for each function, the project team will examine strategies for deploying, allocating, and managing the operations of personnel around a number of key considerations. (1) Patrol In patrol, analysis of community-generated workload using computer aided dispatch data is central to this analysis. The project team will develop current service levels and alternative deployment strategies through the following: