The Atlanta Police Department2010 Zone and Beat Redesign Overview

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The Objective:Chief Turner has charged The Field Operations Division and The Planning and Research/ Accreditation Unit to:

• Analyze the Patrol Beats and Zones for the purpose of determining current workload distribution; and

• Redesign the Beats and Zones where necessary to balance workload distribution and improves service delivery.

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The Objective:

• The Atlanta Police Department formed a Zone and Beat Redesign Committee.

• The Analytical and Management issues are:

- Resource Allocation- Zone and Beat

Redesign - Resource

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Resource Allocation:

The Department can and should:

1.Allocate its call-answering personnel to the Zones and to the watches :

- the allocation should be in

proportion to the patrol workload.

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Zone and Beat Redesign :

Chief Turner has also charged the Zone and Beat Redesigning

Committee with:

• Analyzing the patterns of calls for service; and

• Re-drawing Zone and Beat lines. 04/10/23

Resource Determination:The Zone and Beat Redesign Committee has:

• Analyzed its Calls-for-Service (CFS) workload;

• Evaluated the response times to high priority calls;

• Assessed the officers’ available time for community

policing and other proactive work; and

• Analyzed other factors, i.e. natural boundaries, interstates, railroad lines.04/10/23

The Introduction:“The Zones”

The Zones are organized as follows:

• Mobile Operations  

• Investigations

• Field Investigation Team (FIT) and the Zone Discretionary Unit (ZDU)

• Foot Patrol Units 

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The Introduction: “The Zones”

Patrol Zones:• Zone 1 (West Atlanta)• Zone 2 (North Atlanta)• Zone 3 (Southeast Atlanta)• Zone 4 (Southwest Atlanta)• Zone 5 (Downtown-Midtown)• Zone 6 (East Atlanta)

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“The Beats” : • The Beat’s Defined Geographic Area.

• The Beat Officer’s Expectations.

• When the Beat is not busy, the Beat Officer may:– actively patrol the Beat;– look for problems to be addressed; and – talk with community members.

• When the designated Beat is very busy, other officers may: – answer calls in the Beat, or – be assigned to the Beat.04/10/23

“The Beats” :

• The Distribution of Beats.

• The Beats Design.

• The Connection of Beats to Neighborhoods.

• Resolving Problems within the Beats.

• Assignment of officers to Beats.

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The Redistricting Process:

• The basic process of redesigning the Zones and Beats included:

– The evaluation of the Calls-for-Service

(CFS) workload data; and

– The formation of appropriate geographic areas with roughly equal demand for police service. 04/10/23

The Redesign Process(Considerations):

• Basing the Beats on the Zone boundaries;

• The Zone and Beat Redesign Financial Projections;

• The Zone Precincts’ Transfers;

• The Redesign of the Beats and the Cost of the

Projected Project; and

• Reallocating Infrastructure Expenses.  04/10/23

Workload Measurements:The workload assessment for the Zone/Beat Redesign project was based on dispatched 911 calls for police service from July 2009 –

June 2010.

The following calls are excluded from the measure:

• Calls of an administrative nature• Officer initiated incidents• Incidents serviced by the Georgia State Patrol

and other agencies• Cancelled calls for service• Calls with invalid latitude/longitude fields• Calls serviced by Tele- Serve04/10/23

Workload Measurements:

• The calls were categorized by their initial call type (signal) and their final disposition code.

• Every call in the categories received the same Workload Scores.

• The Workload Scores were calculated, as follows:

Workload Calculation:1. The call length was calculated.2. The calls where more than one Officer was dispatched were

multiplied.3. The average call length was calculated.4. Each call in a given category was assigned the average Workload

Score.

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Workload Ratings:• The Workload Scores of all calls in the given Beat’s

were summed, indicating that Beat’s total workload.

• Each beat’s total Workload Score was then scaled into a standard Workload Rating .

• The Workload Rating is a scale set such that a Beat with an average Workload Score would have a Rating of 100.

• A Beat that has a Workload Rating of 120 has a workload 20% greater than average.

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Current Zones and Beats

The Targeted Workload Rating Per Zone is 1100

Zone Number of Beats Area (Mi2) Workload RatingAbove/Below

Average

Zone 1 11 18.6 1023 -7.0%

Zone 2 10 36.1 898 -18.3%

Zone 3 12 21.0 1191 8.3%

Zone 4 11 32.8 1274 15.9%

Zone 5 11 8.2 1251 13.7%

Zone 6 11 16.7 963 -12.5%

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Current Beat Workload Distribution

(The City is currently divided into 66 beats of varying sizes.)

The following is based on the calculation of the Workload Ratings for each beat:

BeatWorkload

Rating

408 187

303 160

204 159

501 151

508 140

413 138

506 134

410 131

412 130

BeatWorkload

Rating

201 23

504 46

312 47

601 52

605 52

202 53

110 55

606 60

108 66

Above Average Beats Below Average Beats

Beats with Workloads Outside of Acceptable

Range:

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The Zone and

Beat Redesign

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The Zone and Beat Redesign

Plan

• The Plan is elucidated below:

• “Zones and Beats Redesigned with Additional Beats Added”:

• The Department can Redesign the Beats

and Zone and add 12 more Beats .

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“Zones and Beats Redesigned with Additional Beats Added”

(Adding Officers to the Zones) Number of Beats Square Miles

Square Miles Per Patrol Officer

Current Proposed Current Proposed Current Proposed

Zone 1 11 14 18.6 20.0 1.7 1.4

Zone 2 10 13 36.1 39.5 3.6 3.0

Zone 3 12 13 21.0 20.9 1.8 1.6

Zone 4 11 14 32.8 31.3 3.0 2.2

Zone 5 11 12 8.3 6.8 0.8 0.6

Zone 6 11 12 16.7 15.0 1.5 1.3

Total Beats 66 78

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Workload Rating % Above/ Below Average Workload

Current With

Changes

Current With

Changes

Zone 1 1031 1161 -6.3% 5.5%

Zone 2 891 1051 -19.0% -4.5%

Zone 3 1175 1158 6.8% 5.3%

Zone 4 1267 1144 15.2% 4.0%

Zone 5 1246 1030 13.3% -6.4%

Zone6 990 1055 -10.0% -4.1%

Target

Workload

1100

Balancing Zone Workload

“Zones and Beats Redesigned with Additional Beats Added”

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“Zones and Beats Redesigned with Additional Beats Added”

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Logistical Considerations:

Zones: Vehicle ChangesPersonnel Changes

Zone 1 +3 patrol cars +15 officers

Zone 2 +3 patrol cars +15 officers

Zone 3 +1 patrol car +5 officers

Zone 4 +3 patrol cars +15 officers

Zone 5 +1 patrol cars +5 officers

Zone 6 +1 patrol cars +5 officers

Total +12 patrol cars* + 60 officers*

Additional vehicles and officers are already included in current budget

Implementation Costs:

Redesigned Beat layout for CAD system: $57,000

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Implementation Timeline

Six Weeks Contractor completes detailed

Redesigning layout for CAD system.

March 2011

Implement Redesigned Beat plan into CAD system.

Transfer officers and equipment to fill new Beat assignments.

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The Revised Beats

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The End Questions and Answers:

Chief George Turner

Assistant Chief Peter Andresen

Deputy Chief Ernest FinleyDeputy Chief Shawn JonesDeputy Chief Calvin Moss04/10/23