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Agencies continue to request management counseling services at a pace that shows little indication of slowing.
POST primarily provides management counseling services, as requested, to small to medium California law enforcement agencies. Typically a small law enforcement agency is 25 or less sworn personnel and a medium agency is 99 or less sworn personnel. The combined total of these small and medium sized agencies represents approximately 88.3 percent of all the law enforcement agencies in the POST program. These agencies do not have qualified personnel who can conduct management studies nor do they have the financial resources to pay for such services.
The current software program used to assist in conducting workload studies is proprietary software that is individually owned and operated. The program used is “DOS” based, and utilizes a 3 ½“external floppy drive which is significantly outdated hardware as an industry standard. The current application’s system is restricted to a 91 day sampling and requires manual review and validation of data acquired. The current system is not compatible when agencies cannot produce the required spreadsheets due to CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch) system compatibility issues or limited expertise at the agency level. A replacement program reflective of current industry standards is desperately needed to facilitate Management Counseling Services Bureau operations.
The acquisition of Corona Solutions will provide POST the ability to analyze workload rates in a more efficient and timely manner. Data acquisition will take less time to retrieve and significantly less time to analyze. This will allow MCSB the ability to produce a robust product for our client agencies. POST agencies will benefit from studies infinitely more accurate thereby allowing clients to make much better management decisions and allow staff to analyze/identify statewide agency problems.
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