Being prepared means having the right people, with the right qualifications and experience on the ready.  However, maintaining a public safety workforce has become a substantial challenge. Police, Fire, Corrections, Dispatch and Emergency Medical suffer from lack of candidates and high attrition rates.

"We're having a hell of a time" filling positions, King County Sheriff's Office Sgt. John Urquhart said. By the end of the summer, his office expects to have 40 openings. The department struggles each year to keep up with attrition. "We're a bit perplexed by it," Urquhart said. "The allure of the police department is not as great as it used to be."

While a growing private economy contributes, also responsible is the restrictive and stressful the work hours.

“Police departments must compete with better-paying jobs that don't require people to work holidays and nights or risk their lives.”

Deploying ScheduleExpress, you can: 

• Ensure quickest community response
• Accurately respond to community and media queries
• Spend less time reporting and analyzing, more time “doing”

ScheduleExpress is an enterprise solution that targets scheduling issues across the command chain - providing value to the all of your workforce. From the individual up through administration, no one understands how to maximize the public safety workforce performance better than Informer Systems.

If you are a Chief or Sheriff looking to get control over out-of-control absences or overtime, ScheduleExpress can provide reports that highlight trends and problem areas. You can create "what if" scenarios to determine the impact of changing shifts and deployment. Director of Communications? We can reduce the scheduling burden while improving employee morale. For city or county leaders we can provide oversight and access to readiness and deployment information before, during, and after emergencies. 

Request a demo today to see how ScheduleExpress can help make your organization more prepared!