Police Scheduling News & Articles

• Police recruitment and retention woes are increasing – here’s how your agency can respond

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  Policing during a pandemic calls for workforce management systems that keep every officer in the know

• Case Study: Public safety organization integrates complex workforce scheduling requirements with human capital management and payroll

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  The East Fork Fire Protection District is one of Nevada’s largest combination fire and EMS agencies. Hear how their Battalion Chief led the department to integrate complex crew scheduling with human capital management and payroll in a unified cloud platform

• Calif. agency implements emergency patrol schedule in response to COVID-19

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  The Santa Rosa Police Department's pandemic staffing plan could be a model for other agencies across the country

• How Ohio’s ‘Magic City’ PD helped officers regain control of their schedules

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  The city of Barberton adopted a tool that makes shift swaps and drops easier for police and other public safety employees

• Officer pro tip: Top 3 productivity challenges and how to overcome them

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  Need help managing change in people and resources? Here’s how technology can step in.

• How to manage staffing for a crisis or disaster more efficiently (white paper)

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  Automated scheduling technology can help public safety agencies with employee notification and cost recovery for emergency staffing

• How to buy scheduling software (eBook)

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  Download this Police1 scheduling software buying guide to learn key steps for product selection, purchasing and implementation

• Automate shift bidding to increase productivity, transparency and morale (white paper)

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  Download the free white paper to learn how to establish a more fair and equitable shift bidding process to save time and improve employee engagement

• White paper: How to overcome the chaos of managing officer schedules

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  If you’re spending an hour or more per day managing officer shift schedules, then it’s time to rethink your approach

• Increase engagement with modern scheduling technology (white paper)

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  How automated scheduling can help public safety agencies balance employee needs with staffing demands

• Free white paper: Sick Leave Abuse: Trends, Technology, and Real-World Solutions

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  Learn about how to curb abuse in your agency or facility

• How computerized police scheduling saves money, improves employee satisfaction

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  Scheduling software can produce a “best-fit” duty roster for as far in advance as the user desires

• FLSA implications of police shift schedules

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  Understanding how a PD’s shift schedule is impacted by the Fair Labor Standards Act is critical for correctly compensating employees for overtime

• Scheduling: Making the case for change (white paper)

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  This free white paper describes the steps needed to build a case for automated scheduling that aligns with your agency’s goals

• Whitepaper: Improve the public safety scheduling process through automation

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  This free whitepaper will show you how to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and compliance by automating staffing and scheduling

• 4 reasons why police departments are struggling to fill their ranks

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  Calls for service continue to increase while recruitment numbers dwindle; police leaders must develop recruitment strategies that address these challenges

• Reduce errors with automated and integrated scheduling: Download the free white paper

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  Improve productivity, accuracy, compliance and visibility by automating employee scheduling and integration with payroll and other key systems

• White Paper: The Impact of Fatigue on the Public Safety Workforce

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  This free whitepaper explores how better scheduling practices can promote safer work environments

• PoliceOne Webinar: What Keeps Public Safety Leaders Up at Night?

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  Join a panel of public safety leaders as they discuss the issues that keep them up at night and how they’ve solved them with workforce technology.

• Why police leaders should use personnel scheduling software

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  Scheduling software written specifically for law enforcement can provide user-friendly access, efficient tools for administration and ultimate cost savings benefits

• Civil Unrest: Police preparedness, trends and staffing software solutions

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  Learn whether police are prepared to respond to a civil unrest incident

• Why shift schedule awareness is critical to police wellness

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  Being awake for 17-19 hours is the equivalent of having a BAC of .05, and at 24 hours without sleep, you’re cognitively the same as being intoxicated

• White Paper: 10-Hour Shifts: Expensive Luxury, or Effective Deployment?

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  By Corona Solutions Long a favorite of shift workers, the 10-hour shift has also frequently been the subject of management complaints about the difficulty of matching on-duty staffing to workload o...

• White Paper: You Can’t Fight Crime If You Don’t Have The Time

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  By Corona Solutions Just as common as insufficient staffing of patrol operations is inefficient staffing. Some agencies actually do have enough officers for fighting crime, but they are allocated a...

• Keeping the 'grave' out of 'graveyard shift'

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  By Erin AlldayThe San Francisco ChronicleGa. jail officers to try 12-hour shiftSAN FRANCISCO — When Debbie Toms first started working nights as a respiratory therapist, co-workers teased her that t...

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