City of Morgan Hill Public Safety Master Plan

In Figures 3-2, 3-4, 3-6, and 3-8, the patrol resources available are denoted by the dashed green line at the top. The 100 percent value indicates the total police officer hours available during the 24- hour period. This amount varies during the day consistent with the staffing of the shifts, but at any given hour the total amount of available manpower will equal 100. The red dashed line fixed at the 60 percent level represents the saturation index (SI). As discussed above, this is the point at which patrol resources become largely reactive as CFS and workload demands consume a larger and larger portion of available time. The solid black line represents total workload experienced by the MHPD. Figures 3-1 and 3-2 present the patrol workload demands and SI for weekdays in winter 2015. As the figures indicate, the 60 percent threshold is not surpassed during the day. The SI ranges from a low of approximately 5 percent at 7:30 a.m. to a high of 57 percent at 2:45 p.m., with a daily average of 41 percent. Figure 3-1 illustrates many interesting facts about patrol deployment in the MHPD. During this period, it appears that the department has a steady deployment of officers throughout the day. Both day and night shifts assign between four and six officers on average, with additional personnel working predominantly between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., with fewer additional personnel working after midnight. The blue area in Figure 3-1 represents CFS demand from the public. This figure clearly shows that public demand for police resources is easily met by the patrol staffing deployed. Adding the police- initiated and directed patrol workloads to the workload from public demand still does not challenge the department’s ability to meet service levels. The gray areas represent out-of-service time, and as the figure illustrates, this peaks before the end of each shift, presumably when the officers are completing their paperwork before the work day ends.

Police Operations and Data Analysis Report, Morgan Hill, California

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