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9/7/2022 <br />9 <br />CONSISTENT DEFICIT IN PATROL STAFFING <br />17 <br />•Nationwide challenge to retain police officers <br />•Challenges in recruiting new, well qualified officers <br />•Short staffing risks: <br />•Difficulty in meeting goals of Strategic Plan <br />•Quality of Service Reduced <br />•Decrease in responding to crime and employing crime <br />prevention techniques <br />•Increase risk of losing officers <br />•Decrease in Professional Development <br />•Taxing on ability for time off <br />•Increase workload <br />•Ability to absorb the loss of officers is more difficult <br />RULE OF 60 GUIDELINES. AS A GENERAL GUIDELINE, ICMA <br />APPLIES A “RULE OF 60” TO EVALUATE POLICE DEPARTMENT <br />STAFFING ALLOCATION AND DEPLOYMENT. THIS RULE OF 60 <br />APPLIES TO THREE CRITICAL VARIABLES: <br />1. There should be approximately 60 percent of the total number of sworn officers in a department <br />assigned to the patrol function. According to the table, the mean patrol percentage is 66.1 percent. <br />In other words the average department in this study (ICMA) assigns about two-thirds of its officers <br />to patrol. <br />2. The average workload for patrol staffing should not exceed 60 percent. In the ICMA analysis, less <br />than one-third of the available patrol resources are committed to demands from the community in <br />the average department. The highest reported means in the sample of communities studied does not <br />exceed the 60 percent threshold. In other words, the busiest communities in the ICMA analysis <br />do not dedicate more than 60 percent of their patrol resources towards workload (which <br />includes public initiated CFS, police-initiated CFS, administrative and out-of-service time, as well <br />as directed patrol time). <br />3. The Total Service Time (officer-minutes) should not exceed a factor of 60. <br />13