 | This report is part of an ongoing series on police consolidation and shared services developed to help those organizations exploring options for sharing, consolidating, or regionalizing public safety services with other public sector entities. While most communities provide fire and police services through separate agencies, others, often for reasons of efficiency or cost effectiveness, now operate a single consolidated public safety agency. Though previous discussions focused on the potential costs and benefits of consolidated departments, there has been little research on the administrative features. This census and administrative examination is a first step toward developing research on consolidated public safety departments, providing an overview of their administrative attributes and specific forms of consolidation. It also reviews geographic, community, and other characteristics, as well as services and structure, workload attributes, management and workload issues, and how these agencies address community policing issues. The report concludes with a discussion of some overarching issues.By Jeremy M. Wilson, Meghan Hollis, Clifford GrammichCategories: Police OperationsLanguage: EnglishPublic link
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