Fort Worth Police Department Strategic Plan
Accomplished:
The Chief has an open door policy and regularly communicates with each of the employee association presidents and/or their representatives.
The Chief will meet every other month with the elected board members of the BPOA and LPOA. The Chief will attend with one staff member to assist in taking notes and following up on critical issues for the board.
Accomplished:
The Chief has extended an invitation to each of the associations’ elected boards to meet monthly. For purposes of inclusion, the Chief has each of the association presidents attend the weekly executive staff meetings and encourages active feedback on policy, operations, and community relations. The Chief has also opened the weekly executive staff meetings to all interested department members. The increased frequency of meetings with the association presidents exceed the monthly recommendation.
An agreed upon goal is to have the current Presidents of each affected police officer association/s as a voting members of the POA executive board.
Accomplished:
Although this request falls outside of the purview of the Chief of Police, the presidents of the Fort Worth Black Law Enforcement Officer Association (FWBLEOA) and National Latino Law Enforcement Organization (NLLEO) are now voting members of the executive POA board. The Chief will work to address the perception that the department’s internal investigative unit is utilized to harass and intimidate racial/ethnic minority police employee associations and/or its members. The Chief fostered greater internal transparency by requiring the review and revision of each of the department’s investigative sections, Internal Affairs and Special Investigations. The updated standard operating procedure manual of each section will be posted on the police portal no later than January 2017. Each internal investigation, whether administrative or criminal, is open to review, and will be facilitated pursuant to the SOP of the respective applicable section, in conjunction with the alleged employee misconduct, not based upon race or ethnicity. At the conclusion of internal investigations that result in discipline of a day or more, and at the Chief’s discretion, shall be posted on the internal police portal with the names of the involved parties redacted. This will demystify the investigative process and foster transparency among the ranks. Again, the arbitration process is also public. Accomplished/Ongoing:
Fort Worth Police Department Operations
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