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Proposal for a Police Department Staffing Needs Assessment San Leandro, CA Matrix Consulting Group 26 5 References The following list of references includes projects in the last 2 years. We encourage you to contact these references to learn of the quality, depth and usefulness of the recommendations we made. San Francisco, California Staffing Study and Development of an Interactive Model Chief William Scott Police Chief (415) 837-7000 william.scott@sfgov.org In this project the team worked extensively with the San Francisco Police Department and the City to develop a baseline for appropriate staffing and an interactive model for use in the future. The Department had historically worked with the City on a funding level of 1,971 sworn personnel. In spite of the fact that this number was not justified by workloads or service level data, the SFPD was funded at this level and put into the City Charter. Because the City had changed dramatically over the years and continues to do so, Matrix was asked to develop an interactive, workload-based model. This allows the Department, the Mayor and Board of Supervisors to agree and justify staffing levels. Prior to that, the project team and the Department needed to develop a quantitative base for staffing. Over a period of a year we worked with each Bureau of the Department on a serial basis to develop appropriate staffing based on workloads for each function and position. Major conclusions included: • Patrol redeployment to make service more consistent. • An analytical basis for deployment of foot beats. • Redistribution of officers assigned to homeless issues. • Several support functions were civilianized. We developed an interactive model to support this into the future and wrote the City Charter Amendment, passed by the Board of Supervisors and the electorate.