OUR EXPERIENCE ~ YOUR PEACE OF MIND

                                    A Fresh Pair of EYES ~  A Safe Pair of HANDS

                   You Can’t Fight Crime If You Don’t Have The Time!!

                         A significant white paper by Dale Harris

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The Right Organisation ~ Strategic Direction

Strategic Direction has brought together the experience of :

practitioners in the field of resource allocation and work  scheduling in order to give police managers confidence in being able to answer these questions:

• Do I have enough staff to povide for optimum and safe staffing levels?
• Is our current shift pattern effective - does it match demand?
• Is there a better shift pattern?
• How do I reconcile organisational and staff needs?
• Is our current shift pattern legal/healthy?
• How do I improve respose times?
• Do 12 hour shifts really work?
• How do I meet the respective needs of my urban and rural communities?

The Right Team

Our team offers many years of operational police experience and includes –

•     People with expertise in analysing patrol workloads; 
•     Researchers in the field of shiftworker health; 
•     Practitioners in shift system design;  
•     World leading software tools developed by experts in Police Resource Management; 
  

The Right Partnership

Strategic Direction’s experience is second to none in the Police Service marketplace. We are the leading Company supplying the specific services in regard to Demand Profiling, Shift Pattern Design, Resource Management and Staff Allocation to the Police Service. Working with Forces both at Corporate and local Divisional levels, Strategic Direction has a comprehensive understanding of the resourcing requirements of the modern day Police Force.

With nearly 40% of forces within the UK as clients, Strategic Direction is now at the heart of supporting Police objectives of ‘Best Value’ and actively helping establish national standards and best practice within the Service.