Post by OnCrime on Aug 4, 2008 4:53:09 GMT -5
CMPD Reorganization
August 1, 2008
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department will be reorganized in September 2008. The new organizational structure will emphasize the front line response to crime by focusing on patrol with all other departmental units supporting patrol’s enforcement and suppression efforts. The new organizational structure maintains the current four organizational groups (Field Services, Investigative Services, Support Services, and Administrative Services).
However, there will be some significant changes to some of the department’s current specialized units in order to place additional officers and supervisors back into patrol.
The new organizational structure is designed to support the following organizational goals:
�� Establish crime reduction as the department’s number one priority
�� Make the Field Services Group (patrol) the department’s staffing priority with all other units configured to support officers in the field; maintain Field Services at a full staffing level
�� Align departmental personnel to most effectively impact crime at both the neighborhood and jurisdictional level
�� Enhance police officer presence and visibility at the neighborhood level
�� Facilitate greater accountability and more clearly defined roles at all levels of the organization, with a special emphasis on the Field Services Group
�� Strengthen the effectiveness of response area teams to give participants more clearly defined goals, greater accountability and increased ownership of crime problems in their assigned area
�� Create an organizational structure that facilitates constructive partnerships with citizens, businesses, and other public and private sector service providers.
The following summarizes the major organizational changes:
Field Services Group
�� Field Services is being split into two groups, North and South, with a Deputy Chief over each of the groups.
o Field Services Group North will be comprised of the North, University City, Eastway, North Tryon, Metro, and Freedom Divisions and the Watch Commander’s Office.
o Field Services South will be comprised of the South, Providence, Westover, Steele Creek, Hickory Grove, Independence and Central Divisions as well as the Transit Unit.
o A Support Captain will be assigned to each of the two Deputy Chiefs to handle administrative work and issues that span both service areas.
�� Response Area Teams in each of the 39 patrol response areas will be strengthened by the addition of a sergeant to serve as a Response Area Commander. Each of the response areas will have an action plan for crime reduction in their assigned areas and the Response Area Commander will be responsible for planning, implementation and monitoring of that plan. Community Coordinators will report to the Response Area Commanders as their work is integral to the crime reduction goals in their assigned areas.
�� The Street Crimes Division is being redeployed to patrol. Each patrol division will have a Focused Mission Team, led by a sergeant, to be deployed to crime hot spots or areas where emerging crime trends are identified. Each division can set its own deployment priorities and will not have to compete for resources as with the Street Crimes Division.
�� The HITS Unit is being redeployed to patrol. Each patrol division will continue to be responsible for traffic enforcement at the neighborhood level as well as special operations such as DWI checkpoints and license checks. HITS officers trained in accident reconstruction will be redeployed to patrol divisions and will use that expertise within their respective divisions. The HITS Motorcycle Unit will remain intact and will report to the Special Events Captain. The Special Events Captain will also be responsible for maintaining CMPD’s traffic enforcement and education partnerships with other agencies.
�� ABC Enforcement is being decentralized; that function will now be handled by patrol divisions who can most effectively understand the impact of ABC establishments on their surrounding neighborhoods.
�� Burglary detectives will now report to the sergeants in their assigned patrol divisions.
Investigative Services Group
�� The Gang Unit and the Violent Crimes Unit will be merged into a Gang and Firearm Enforcement Division which will take a more focused approach to gang issues. The unit will focus on gangs which are creating the most significant problems at the neighborhood level and will develop enforcement strategies that disrupt, suppress, and eliminate the gang activity. The Firearms Enforcement Unit will work with gang detectives on building cases against gang members who have used a firearm in the commission of a crime in hopes of getting longer prison terms through federal firearms charges.
�� A separate investigative unit is being created to investigate serious assault with a deadly weapon (firearms) cases. This unit will free up several man hours for patrol officers who currently investigate these cases.
�� Vice and Narcotics will be expanded to provide sufficient manpower to handle both neighborhood level drug investigations and the more complex investigations targeting the drug suppliers bringing drugs into the community.
�� A new Special Victims Division will be comprised of the Youth Crime/Domestic Violence Unit, the Missing Persons Unit and the Sexual Assault Unit. The current Juvenile Crimes and Domestic Violence Units will be reduced in size and some of their personnel deployed to other areas of the department. The new Youth Crime Unit will focus on children who have been the victims of sexual assault or violence in the home. The Domestic Violence Unit will focus on households with repeated incidences of domestic violence.
�� The International Relations Unit will be redeployed to other areas of the department and issues related to the international community will be addressed at the patrol division level where they can be considered in the broader context of the community. CMPD will maintain the partnerships with advocacy groups and media outlets that work with the international community.
�� The Criminal Intelligence Unit will be reduced in size and will concentrate on the Joint Terrorism Task Force, hate crimes, special events, and development of the regional crime and intelligence gathering system funded in part by a 2007 grant from the COPS Office.
Support Services Group
�� The Property and Evidence function will be reassigned to Support Services so all units involved in the chain of custody of evidence will be aligned under one bureau
�� A number of functions related to outreach to youth will be assigned to a newly configured Community Services and Youth Division; these functions include School Resource Officers, Right Moves for Youth and the Police Athletic League. This division will also handle the Volunteer Partnership, Citizens on Patrol, the Alarm Coordinator’s Office and Crime Prevention. The Crime Prevention Unit is being reduced in size since many crime prevention functions such as security surveys and presentations are handled at the patrol division level.
�� Gang of One will now report to the Community Services Bureau Major to facilitate coordination with the department’s other youth outreach programs
Administrative Services Group
�� The Recruitment and Training functions, currently under one captain, will be divided under two separate captains. Recruitment and Training are crucial to the success of the following goals:
o Recruit a workforce demographically reflective of the community it serves
o Maintain an applicant pool that allows the department to anticipate and fill vacant positions in an expedient manner
o Develop training programs that give employees the competencies they need to do their jobs with the highest level of professionalism
o Develop training programs that get newly hired officers on the street more
o rapidly than under the current system
Separating these two functions will allow for greater focus on the steps necessary to achieve these goals. These organizational changes will be effective on September 6, 2008.
August 1, 2008
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department will be reorganized in September 2008. The new organizational structure will emphasize the front line response to crime by focusing on patrol with all other departmental units supporting patrol’s enforcement and suppression efforts. The new organizational structure maintains the current four organizational groups (Field Services, Investigative Services, Support Services, and Administrative Services).
However, there will be some significant changes to some of the department’s current specialized units in order to place additional officers and supervisors back into patrol.
The new organizational structure is designed to support the following organizational goals:
�� Establish crime reduction as the department’s number one priority
�� Make the Field Services Group (patrol) the department’s staffing priority with all other units configured to support officers in the field; maintain Field Services at a full staffing level
�� Align departmental personnel to most effectively impact crime at both the neighborhood and jurisdictional level
�� Enhance police officer presence and visibility at the neighborhood level
�� Facilitate greater accountability and more clearly defined roles at all levels of the organization, with a special emphasis on the Field Services Group
�� Strengthen the effectiveness of response area teams to give participants more clearly defined goals, greater accountability and increased ownership of crime problems in their assigned area
�� Create an organizational structure that facilitates constructive partnerships with citizens, businesses, and other public and private sector service providers.
The following summarizes the major organizational changes:
Field Services Group
�� Field Services is being split into two groups, North and South, with a Deputy Chief over each of the groups.
o Field Services Group North will be comprised of the North, University City, Eastway, North Tryon, Metro, and Freedom Divisions and the Watch Commander’s Office.
o Field Services South will be comprised of the South, Providence, Westover, Steele Creek, Hickory Grove, Independence and Central Divisions as well as the Transit Unit.
o A Support Captain will be assigned to each of the two Deputy Chiefs to handle administrative work and issues that span both service areas.
�� Response Area Teams in each of the 39 patrol response areas will be strengthened by the addition of a sergeant to serve as a Response Area Commander. Each of the response areas will have an action plan for crime reduction in their assigned areas and the Response Area Commander will be responsible for planning, implementation and monitoring of that plan. Community Coordinators will report to the Response Area Commanders as their work is integral to the crime reduction goals in their assigned areas.
�� The Street Crimes Division is being redeployed to patrol. Each patrol division will have a Focused Mission Team, led by a sergeant, to be deployed to crime hot spots or areas where emerging crime trends are identified. Each division can set its own deployment priorities and will not have to compete for resources as with the Street Crimes Division.
�� The HITS Unit is being redeployed to patrol. Each patrol division will continue to be responsible for traffic enforcement at the neighborhood level as well as special operations such as DWI checkpoints and license checks. HITS officers trained in accident reconstruction will be redeployed to patrol divisions and will use that expertise within their respective divisions. The HITS Motorcycle Unit will remain intact and will report to the Special Events Captain. The Special Events Captain will also be responsible for maintaining CMPD’s traffic enforcement and education partnerships with other agencies.
�� ABC Enforcement is being decentralized; that function will now be handled by patrol divisions who can most effectively understand the impact of ABC establishments on their surrounding neighborhoods.
�� Burglary detectives will now report to the sergeants in their assigned patrol divisions.
Investigative Services Group
�� The Gang Unit and the Violent Crimes Unit will be merged into a Gang and Firearm Enforcement Division which will take a more focused approach to gang issues. The unit will focus on gangs which are creating the most significant problems at the neighborhood level and will develop enforcement strategies that disrupt, suppress, and eliminate the gang activity. The Firearms Enforcement Unit will work with gang detectives on building cases against gang members who have used a firearm in the commission of a crime in hopes of getting longer prison terms through federal firearms charges.
�� A separate investigative unit is being created to investigate serious assault with a deadly weapon (firearms) cases. This unit will free up several man hours for patrol officers who currently investigate these cases.
�� Vice and Narcotics will be expanded to provide sufficient manpower to handle both neighborhood level drug investigations and the more complex investigations targeting the drug suppliers bringing drugs into the community.
�� A new Special Victims Division will be comprised of the Youth Crime/Domestic Violence Unit, the Missing Persons Unit and the Sexual Assault Unit. The current Juvenile Crimes and Domestic Violence Units will be reduced in size and some of their personnel deployed to other areas of the department. The new Youth Crime Unit will focus on children who have been the victims of sexual assault or violence in the home. The Domestic Violence Unit will focus on households with repeated incidences of domestic violence.
�� The International Relations Unit will be redeployed to other areas of the department and issues related to the international community will be addressed at the patrol division level where they can be considered in the broader context of the community. CMPD will maintain the partnerships with advocacy groups and media outlets that work with the international community.
�� The Criminal Intelligence Unit will be reduced in size and will concentrate on the Joint Terrorism Task Force, hate crimes, special events, and development of the regional crime and intelligence gathering system funded in part by a 2007 grant from the COPS Office.
Support Services Group
�� The Property and Evidence function will be reassigned to Support Services so all units involved in the chain of custody of evidence will be aligned under one bureau
�� A number of functions related to outreach to youth will be assigned to a newly configured Community Services and Youth Division; these functions include School Resource Officers, Right Moves for Youth and the Police Athletic League. This division will also handle the Volunteer Partnership, Citizens on Patrol, the Alarm Coordinator’s Office and Crime Prevention. The Crime Prevention Unit is being reduced in size since many crime prevention functions such as security surveys and presentations are handled at the patrol division level.
�� Gang of One will now report to the Community Services Bureau Major to facilitate coordination with the department’s other youth outreach programs
Administrative Services Group
�� The Recruitment and Training functions, currently under one captain, will be divided under two separate captains. Recruitment and Training are crucial to the success of the following goals:
o Recruit a workforce demographically reflective of the community it serves
o Maintain an applicant pool that allows the department to anticipate and fill vacant positions in an expedient manner
o Develop training programs that give employees the competencies they need to do their jobs with the highest level of professionalism
o Develop training programs that get newly hired officers on the street more
o rapidly than under the current system
Separating these two functions will allow for greater focus on the steps necessary to achieve these goals. These organizational changes will be effective on September 6, 2008.
