As a follow-up engagement to Citygate’s 2021 feasibility analysis regarding City-provided police services, Citygate is currently conducting a study of hybrid public safety models for the City of Jurupa Valley, California. This study will examine hybrid models of public safety services the City may consider in addition to the current contracting model of law enforcement services being provided by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. This will entail reviewing with City staff the existing Sheriff’s Department quality of life service requests and services delivered to determine how the Sheriff’s Department is meeting the City’s current needs, as well as providing five alternative service delivery models, including two mental health response models and three community policing models.

Citygate is currently performing a comprehensive operations and staffing assessment for the Police Department in the City of West Sacramento, California. This assessment will analyze staffing needs and service demands to determine an optimal staffing model, appropriately considering workload, performance measures, service delivery expectations, operating budgets, community priorities, and Departmental organization.

Citygate, in partnership with COAR Design Group (formerly Jeff Katz Architecture), is currently conducting a police workload and staffing study for the City of Los Altos, California, as part of the City’s larger plan exploring options for renovating its current police headquarters facility or constructing a new facility. For this study, Citygate will evaluate the adequacy of staffing levels for current workload and whether Department command staff’s goals and objectives related to staffing and community service level expectations are being met; examine the current organizational structure; provide a structured and defensible methodology for the Department’s staff to use in projecting future staffing needs; identify where data and community needs indicate new service delivery methods are needed; identify any redundancies, gaps, and opportunities for applying best practices in the provision of core services; and make recommendations for staffing levels that will allow the Department to maintain or increase its current level of services, as well as recommend any emerging technologies that may assist or enhance intelligence-led policing strategies.

Citygate is currently performing an independent operational and organizational assessment for the City of Oceanside Police Department, affecting current, future, and long-term organizational, strategic, and operational plans. This review will examine current and future service delivery, quality of service, service delivery expectations, community engagement, community priorities, Departmental organization, and staffing and deployment feasibility to maintain current and future organizational efficiency. This study will assist with establishing efficiencies to ensure City, Department, and community needs are met by reviewing programming, infrastructure, operational efficiency, and fiscal impacts of associated findings and recommendations across the entire organization, as well as identifying planned service delivery systems and staffing allocation models to best serve the community and achieve City Council and Department goals and objectives.

Citygate is currently performing a comprehensive operations and staffing assessment of the Police Department for the City of Minnetonka, Minnesota. This comprehensive assessment of the law enforcement services delivery system will entail review of Department functions, organizational structure, operational functions, staffing and service levels, and Department efficiencies to ensure current and future needs are met through efficient and effective operations. As appropriate, this study will coordinate with Citygate’s concurrent fire services study.

Citygate is currently conducting a fire department operational and physical asset study for the City of Minnetonka, Minnesota. This study will entail a thorough review and analysis of services, staffing, apparatus, and facility options for the Department, including a comprehensive Standards of Coverage document analyzing resource deployment to determine whether the Department is properly deployed to meet its community’s risks and expectations. This assessment will also include a staffing plan to meet the needs identified in the SOC analysis, a long-term apparatus plan, and a review of fire station locations and recommendations. The staffing analysis will identify strengths and weaknesses, if any, of the current staffing plan.

Citygate assisted the City of Temecula, California, in estimating the size and likely parcel assessment needed for a single in-town police facility that could serve the City at its buildout size should the City ever desire to house contracted Sheriff’s personnel or its own standalone police department.

Citygate completed a Police Department Strategic Plan for the City of Pasco, Washington, to review current and future service delivery, quality of service, service delivery expectations, community engagement, community priorities, Departmental organization, and staffing and deployment feasibility to maintain current and future organizational efficiency. This review examined current service delivery models; staffing levels; programming; management structure; operational efficiency; and sustainability of mission, vision, and values.

Citygate completed a police staffing and efficiency study for the City of Elk Grove, California. This study determined an optimal staffing model, appropriately considering workload, performance measures, service delivery expectations, operating budgets, community priorities, and Departmental organization. In addition, this study forecast future needs, taking into consideration both short- and long-term objectives, community growth, and any other factors that could impact staffing requirements.

Citygate assisted the City Council in the City of Coachella, California, in a workshop discussion to consider the methods of studying policing services. This entailed a presentation outlining how to develop a police master plan, along with a comparative analysis of separating from the Sheriff’s Department versus starting a City police department or some combination thereof. In the presentation, we assisted the Council in understanding and discussing the study options, costs, and time frames.