Fort Worth Police Department Strategic Plan
Civilian Personnel
As Fort Worth and FWPD continue to grow, it becomes vital to our success to increase civilian staffing concurrently. Civilian staff provides essential services for the department such as dispatch, grant management, procurement, contracts, technology services, research, planning, crime analysis, financial management, budgeting, human resources, facilities, records management, crime lab, data collection, community programs, administrative tasks, and fleet management. Each year, FWPD implements an extensive needs assessment process to review, recommend, and rank all departmental needs in order of priority. This review process begins in November in preparation for the next fiscal year. Staff proposes requests using an electronic needs assessment system, which requires the staff member’s chain of command up to the Assistant Chief of each Bureau to, either review and recommend approval, or deny the request. Once approved by the Assistant Chief, the request is then reviewed by the FWPD Budget Committee, which is responsible for making recommendations to approve or deny the request, and then rank in priority order among all departmental needs requested. Lastly, the executive staff reviews and approves prioritized recommendations as presented by the Budgeting Committee. This prioritization process is utilized as a basis for developing the next fiscal year budget. The FWPD will continue to take proactive measures to ensure the department maintains its service-oriented philosophies in a growing and changing environment by continually analyzing and prioritizing staffing needs each year.
Figure 3.18. 2015 Staffing Analysis in Support of Creating a Sixth Division – (Civilian)
2015 Civilian Analysis as Originally Proposed (Planned for funding in FY 18 in support of 6th Division)
Budget Committee/ Executive Staff Rank
Planned for FY18 Civilian Position Needed FY18 FY19 FY20 FY21 FY22 Total
Division/Unit
#10 Ranked Below (On 2015 Plan for FY 18) On 2015 Plan for FY 18 On 2015 Plan for FY 18 On 2015 Plan for FY 18 #1 Ranked Below (On 2015 Plan for FY 18)
FY 18
Support
Tactical Intelligence Division
Crime Analyst
1
1
FY 18
Support
Community Programs Division
Crime Prevention Specialist
1
1
FY 18
Support
Community Programs Division
Code Blue Coordinator
1
1
FY 18
Patrol
Patrol
Admin Staff
3
3
FY 18
Communications - Dispatchers
Finance & Personnel Total Planned for FY18 Based on 2015 Staffing Plan
Communications Division
7
7
13
13
Please note that some staffing recommendations may not be implemented due to lack of funding.
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