Optimizing law enforcement manpower analysis: An enhanced calculation model

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Abstract

Maintaining adequate size of force is essential to ensuring public safety, social order, and police services. This study features a new and improved law enforcement staffing model as illustrated by a recent analysis of the Marion County Sheriff’s Office manpower level and hiring needs. Law enforcement staffing entails assessment of supply (manpower) and demand (calls for service) adjusted by shift relief, agency objectives, and related variables. The new model features a mixed methods approach to data collection informing a seven-step arithmetic process specifying both immediate and near future hiring needs.

Authors

• McKenzie Lucille Jossie, University of Florida

• Brenda Vose, University of North Florida

• Wesley Jennings, The University of Mississippi

• J. Mitchell Miller, University of North Florida