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Ever increasing demands place a strain
on law enforcement resources nationwide. Communities
struggle to balance the reality of their fiscal situation
against the duty to provide competent protection to
their citizens.
Finite resources demand well-considered
allocation and deployment strategies to ensure your
agency is utilizing its current assets to their fullest
capability. Sometimes, problems can be resolved through
effective redeployment of existing resources. In other
situations, changing circumstances create the undeniable
need for additional staffing. VTS can assist you in
evaluating your current strategies, adjusting them
- if necessary, and determining the effect of proposed
staffing changes on various Workload and Performance
Measures.
We know the decisions are ultimately
in your hands; our nationally-recognized experts can
help you make them with confidence.
Is my agency appropriately staffed?
No credible consultant will claim there is a universally-recognized
standard for “appropriate” staffing; however,
VTS experts can evaluate your current staffing levels,
where you stand in relation to your peers and the
historical record of your agency, and most importantly,
the effect of proposed changes in staffing on relevant
performance indicators such as Obligated Time, Unobligated
Time and Response Time. From this information, we
can help you chart the appropriate course for your
agency and give you the tools you need to justify
your decisions with reasoned analysis and cold, hard
facts. Our experts have experience confronting these
issues with state and municipal law enforcement as
well as police labor unions.
How do I deploy existing resources
for optimal benefit? Whatever your deployment
concern, we can help. Our experts will study your
organization to ensure your deployment strategies
are maximizing the efficient and effective delivery
of service. We offer top-to-bottom solutions - from
the organizational structure of your entire agency
down to the individual position level, if necessary.
We audit positions, policy, processes, and procedures
to ensure they are structured to function in a way
that enables your organization to achieve its goals.
If scheduling is a concern, our experts have experience
in both teaching and consulting regarding the use
of 8, 10, and 12 hour shifts as well as Fixed, Unstructured,
Locked and Unlocked Rotating Schedules. We can evaluate
your Beat (Zone or District) Design Structure to ensure
it is geographically coherent and balances workload
while reducing the rate of cross-beat dispatches.
If you are interested in learning more about our services,
please contact us. We look forward to partnering with
you.
Is your department getting its fair
share of available funds? Do you have a comprehensive
grant acquisition strategy? Do you need assistance
with grant writing and/or reporting? Do you need assistance
responding to a federal or state grant audit? Do you
need assistance composing the project management plan
for your technology grant?
Our staff grant specialist has secured
and administered multi-million dollar grants and managed
the grant acquisition program for one of the ten largest
police agencies in the United States. No client is
too large or small. Whether you need a full review
of your current grant program, are interested in developing
one, or are simply seeking assistance with grant writing
and reporting, VTS can assist you. Contact
us. Your short-term investment in VTS could pay
untold future dividends in the success of your funding
acquisition efforts.
An active shooter scenario is unfolding
in a school/workplace/mall…
This is a regrettable reality that
may face any community at any time. It is generally
accepted that “contain and wait for SWAT”
is not the appropriate ethic for the Active Shooter
response. The first officers on the scene have a moral
imperative to stop the action. Agencies have a moral
imperative to train them. Anything less than proactive
policy and effective training will be received and
reported as organizational failure at the highest
levels.
VTS can assist in evaluating the status
of your current policy, training efforts, and media
response plans for the most difficult and high profile
incidents faced by law enforcement agencies.
VTS Partners – Beyond Your Normal
“Experts”
VTS Partners are a different type of
“expert.” Of course our experts have the
advanced education one would expect; what distinguishes
us is how our education is coupled with practical
experience consistent with that of our clients and
relevant to their needs. It is easy to communicate
with consultants who have directly shared, and thus
understand, your experience and challenges.
For example, for police
policy development, VTS’s Team Leading Partner
is an attorney, but also a seasoned police veteran
with over 6 years of policy development experience
for a large CALEA Accredited Agency.
For Tactical
Training, your Team Leading Partner will have
recent Iraq War Combat experience including close-quarters
small unit engagements against heavily-armed terrorists.
One of these partners is also a JD, another an MBA,
and a third has over a decade of teaching experience
with a national law enforcement training center. Any
of these partners would be coupled with a support
partner who is a veteran police officer, attorney
and certified police academy instructor.
For your Media
Relations Plan, your Team Leading Partner is an
attorney and police veteran with extensive Public
Relations experience in one of the largest media markets
in the United States.
Let us put our unique blend of education,
experience and expertise to work for you. If you are
interested in learning more about our Tactical Training,
Policy Development and Media Response Programs, contact
us.
Policy
Development – We can aid you in
updating your policy or developing new ones in response
to current threats. After consultation, we offer policy
drafting services with follow up to ensure that the
policy adopted by your agency is reflective of your
standards and goals.
Tactical
Training – We offer on-site small
unit Tactical Training, including Rapid Deployment
Training. We can work to develop individualized training
modules which comport to the response policy adopted
by your agency and the unique needs and circumstances
of your jurisdiction. Our experts can be retained
to consult with your Training Unit and/or Tactical
Units regarding our recent experience engaging terrorist
operatives in combat.
Media
Relations/Post Crisis Management - Failing
to prepare in advance for the media storm that will
descend after a crisis will result in failure in your
ability to accurately convey and justify the well-reasoned
policies and mitigation practices that were put in
place in anticipation of such events. VTS offers:
• A comprehensive approach for
dealing successfully with the media in both routine
and crisis events.
• Strategies to create mutually-beneficial relationships
with members of the media.
• Tactical communications techniques to ensure
your message is delivered clearly, concisely, and
ultimately gets broadcasted on-point.
• Strategies to ensure that evidence of quality
policy development and decision-making does not get
lost because of ineffectual communication.
At VTS, our experience taught us that
the only way to prevent a catastrophe is to actively
prepare for it. Plan to prepare. Prepare to prevent.
You cannot simply write a policy, put it on a shelf
to gather dust and expect it to protect you by itself.
Successful preventive measures are dynamic. They are
competently rendered, and they must continually be
evaluated and updated. The nature of today's threat
is fluid and your policies and plans should evolve
to encompass the breadth and scope of the threat.
You won't get a check list from us. We will help you
plan. We will help you evolve. Click
here to read more about meeting 'The Threat'.
The bomb has already gone off. Multiple
casualties are on the ground. What do you do now?
The first thing that ought to be remembered: your
first responders are still in the crosshairs. We’ve
been there, through IED attacks, suicide car bombs,
snipers, mortars, rockets and mass casualty events.
We will share the benefits of our experience, and
teach you to prepare for some of the most favored
techniques in the terrorist’s play book.
In today’s chaotic law enforcement
and security environment, a forward-thinking, assertive
posture is required that also balances and upholds
our cherished liberties. It’s not enough for
organizations to be managed. They must be led. We
will assist you in the development and coaching of
leaders throughout your organization using a variety
of tools and techniques including the Military Decision
Making Process (MDMP) which facilitates positive leadership
with confidence through periods of stability and chaos.
Human capital is the greatest untapped resource in
most organizations. The raw material for great leadership
may be hidden throughout your ranks. Let us help you
unlock it. If you are interested in learning more
about our Leadership Solutions, contact
us.
Do your standard operating procedures
make sense? Are your policies updated, consistent,
and tailored to help your organization achieve its
Mission, or have they unfolded as a hodgepodge in
reaction to the crisis of the moment? Is there waste
is going on inside your organization? Could operations
or policy be streamlined to facilitate more efficient
and effective delivery of service?
Our Six Sigma Master Black Belt works
in conjunction with our seasoned policy developers/attorneys
to craft processes and policies which both promote
efficiencies and protect your organization. Our Process
Improvement/Policy Development Team will partner with
the key players in your organization to create solutions
that work for you. We will help keep you lean and
agile, yet response to the demands of the 21st century.
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here to read more.
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