Fort Worth Police Department Strategic Plan
Add Professional Administrative Support to Finance Unit. The FWPD should add an additional administrative professional to the Finance Unit, preferably an accountant, who can assist the unit supervisor in reviewing unit work, conduct random audits, and assist with workload processing. This position is recommended at the administrative professional level to ensure they are qualified to assist the unit supervisor and effectively review and audit all outgoing department payments. The unit’s inability to properly review outgoing payments, credit card purchases, and its own data entry will continue to lead to mistakes and the potential for misuse of city funds. Proper checks and balances must be implemented and additional staffing would be required. Add Three Civilians to Program Support. The FWPD should add at least three more civilian support personnel to the Program Support Division, to assist the various sections where they would be most needed. In general, the division is considerably understaffed, and multiple critical tasks are not being performed because the division simply does not have the personnel. This opens up the department to liability issues if core functions, such as grant reconciliation and monitoring, cannot be performed. Providing additional support to the division, instead of specific units, allows management to determine where staffing is most needed at any given time. Add ID Technicians. The FWPD should fund three non-sworn ID technician positions to comply with state mandated reporting requirements. The department must report dispositions for 90 percent of arrests reported. Based on the most recent compliance report, the department is not meeting the 90 percent overall mandate and the 90 percent adult mandate for the years 2011, 2012 and 2013. Background Investigators. The FWPD should consider converting through attrition all or, at a minimum, four of the eight sworn officer positions to civilian background investigators. Civilian background investigators are used successfully by departments throughout the country at a reduced cost compared to sworn personnel. The sworn positions could be reallocated to the Patrol or Support Bureaus. Convert to Civilian
Reallocated existing resources
Finance/ Personnel
High
Agree
Yes
Reallocated and realigned existing resources
Finance/ Personnel
High
Agree
Yes
General Fund
Finance/ Personnel
High
Agree
No
Disagree (civilianization issue with Meet and Confer contract)
Finance/ Personnel
Moderate
No
N/A
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