AGENDA DATE: 10/15/2025
TITLE:
Public Safety Staffing Studies Report Work Session
SUBJECT/PROPOSAL/REQUEST: The consultant from ESCI will present an executive summary of the Police and Fire Rescue reports. This presentation will be led by the County's Chief Operating Officer and supported by both the Police Chief and the Fire Chief.
ITEM TYPE: Regular Information Item
STAFF CONTACT(S): Richardson, Henry, Herrick, Shifflett
PRESENTER (S): Kristy Shifflett, Robert Graff of Emergency Services Consulting International (ESCI)
LEGAL REVIEW: Not Required
REVIEWED BY: Jeffrey B. Richardson
BACKGROUND: The County contracts external assessments to provide benchmarking and analysis on functional capabilities to meet national and local standards and comparison reports with other Virginia localities. These assessments often provide recommendations for long range planning and roadmaps for financial analysis and staffing. Early in 2025, the County of Albemarle retained Emergency Services Consulting International (ESCI) to conduct a comprehensive staffing study for the Albemarle County Police and Fire Rescue departments. The research included collection of data, interviews with staff, onsite tours of the County facilities, experiencing the physical size and scale of the county, and multiple meetings with command staff from each department.
The staffing study was designed to provide the County with a detailed understanding of current and future needs and includes tiered findings and recommendations for moving forward regarding the department's staffing for daily operations, emergencies, and administrative support functions. As such, it is designed to assist the departments with quantifying current service delivery, evaluating service delivery and response performance, identifying forecast growth and emergent conditions, and developing strategies to meet anticipated needs and future service demand. Data from national best practices in fire service, policing, laws ...
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