Fort Worth Police Department Strategic Plan
Update Finance Unit Credit Card Policy. The FWPD and Finance Unit should work with the department’s credit card vendor to allow the credit card user to allocate each charge to a particular line item within the user’s budget. The Finance Unit should be reviewing credit card purchases to ensure it is within policy, not allocating each purchase to a particular department account. This will reduce the data entry workload of the unit and help ensure credit card purchases are within purchasing guidelines. This process has been successfully implemented in other police agencies and should be implemented as soon as feasible. Special Investigations. The FWPD should devote an additional two officers assigned to the task of conducting scheduled and unscheduled inspections of all agency components. A department inspection process is essential to ensure agency operations, facilities, processes, and personnel are in compliance with the agency’s mission. Scheduled inspections would include a yearly plan to inspect and review a specific number of department components. This cycle could change so every two years all components within the agency have been thoroughly reviewed. Overtime Analysis and Approval Process. Once the department has fully moved over to its new PeopleSoft software system and one year’s worth of data has been collected, it should conduct a thorough review of departmental use of overtime by district and shift. This analysis will provide the department with additional valuable data regarding the driving factors of overtime use. Overtime should be approved at the first-line supervisor’s level. Compared to a central authority, a first-line supervisor is better able to make an informed decision if a particular employee needs to incur overtime. Add Two Officers to
No Funding Needed
Finance/ Personnel
Moderate
Agree
In process
Yes, added Lt. and Customer Service Rep II
Disagree (Could possibly add civilians)
General Fund
Finance/ Personnel
Moderate
In process (dependent on City ERP team to reconfigure)
No Funding Needed
Finance/ Personnel
Moderate
Agree
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