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Outsourcing - Privatization - Sharing Services

For Police Departments

How they can help your budget!

 

Budget problems are not going away and next year promises more of the same. Police departments and other municipal agencies across the country are now evaluating and implementing budget savings strategies utilizing outsourcing, privatization and sharing services or as it is sometimes called regionalization. Studies have shown that the outsourcing and privatization can represent potential savings of billions of dollars for municipal budgets. The pressures are growing on local budgets causing administrators to investigate these possibilities and to implement those that make economic sense.

What you will learn -

What these strategies can actually do.

How to evaluate each of these strategies to see if they will reduce your costs in your own department.

How to implement the strategies politically and practically. 

The essentials of any contracts that are to be negotiated that will control these strategies.

The essentials of management and oversight.

The Speakers are -

Chief Lou Pacheco of Raynham who has organized and operated a regional task force for 20 years.

Henry M. Quinlan, publisher of the Police Department Budget Report, the School District Budget Report

Melissa Donohue, Esq. of the office of Wade M. Welch, Esq. Town counsel of the Town of Winchester.

A Representative from the Edward J. Collins, Jr. center for public Management, McCormack Graduate School of Public Policy studies, UMass Boston

Here is how some of these issues are playing out now across the country. 

Oakland, California is looking to hire private companies to patrol some of its rougher neighborhoods in the wake of record municipal budget deficits

Portland, Oregon's downtown area is patrolled by armed personnel with arrest powers that are supplied by a private company.

The City of Hollywood Florida is facing a $17.9 million deficit next year and is now studying whether to outsource the whole police department to the Broward County Sheriff's department.

The Boston Police department has outsourced finger printing processing and it has cut some costs for the department and helped limit some of the police unit's liability. 

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police has outsourced as extensive data analysis to document and analyze the multiple variables associated with their particular problems, as well as assess citizen satisfaction with community policing.

Brookline Police department reject outsourcing recommendation for parking ticket administration and buy new technology.

Caseyville Missouri is evaluating outsourcing dispatchers to save $250,000

Atherton Police department studying outsourcing night time dispatching to neighboring community

Houston Police department is preparing a RFP for outsourcing the alarm licensing, billing, and collection function.

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Seminar to be held on June 30 Mass Holiday Inn 265 Lakeside Ave, Marlboro, MA 01752   at the price of $145.00 per person.  9am to 3pm (lunch not included)