We accomplish this through:
1. Identifying and developing management practices that produce verifiable, high-quality outcomes/results through targeted research
- From our research and research of the Justice Department, we have created “Chief Selection Advantage” for hiring your next police or fire chief.
- We have completed 188 studies on communities in more than 30 states for which benchmarking data can be analyzed.
2. Educating and training practitioners in their use
- Questions you should be asking your police and fire chief
- Using data to better manage and deploy your public safety resources
- Public safety: Is it an option?
- Fire and police symposiums on the future of the services
- A full slate of emergency management education and training
- Designing the police/fire department of the future
- Administration development programs tailored to your agency
- ICMA Green Books on managing emergency resources.
3. Providing technical assistance in their application.
- Police and fire forensic workload analysis by a team trained and dedicated to operations research
- Operational analyses of police, fire, EMS, and emergency management
- Strategic planning
- All-hazard, all-risk emergency plans.
The ICMA Center for Public Safety Management (ICMA/CPSM) is one of four Centers within ICMA’s U.S. Programs division, providing support to local governments in the areas of police, fire, emergency medical services (EMS), emergency management, and homeland security. In addition to providing technical assistance in these areas, we also represent local governments at the federal level and are involved in numerous projects with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
ICMA/CPSM is also involved in police and fire chief selection by assisting local governments in identifying these critical managers through original research, identifying core competencies of police and fire managers, and providing assessment center resources.
Our local government technical assistance includes workload and deployment analysis by using operations research techniques and credentialed experts to identify workload and staffing needs, as well as best practices. We have conducted approximately 140 such studies in 90 communities ranging in size from 8,000 population (Boone, Iowa) to 800,000 population (Indianapolis, Indiana). When requested, the Center has the capability both through staff and strategic partnerships to perform additional departmental reviews.
Thomas Wieczorek is the director of the Center for Public Safety Management; Leonard Matarese is the director of Research and Project Development.
SCHEDULE A DISCUSSION ON HOW THE CENTER CAN help YOUR COMMUNITY
Contact Thomas Wieczorek, director, at twieczorek@icma.org, 616-813-3782 or Leonard Matarese, director of Research & Project Development, at lmatarese@icma.org, 716-969-1360 to schedule an appointment.
