Optimizing Law Enforcement Operations Amid Workforce Challenges

Managing today’s law enforcement workforce requires strategic agility. From municipal patrol units to countywide division, to 911 communication centers, the profession presents constant physical and mental demands. Rising crime rates, staffing shortages, financial constraints, and evolving community expectations have intensified these pressures.

With early retirements at record highs and academy enrollments dwindling, agencies must navigate operational risks with limited personnel and resources. While increasing staff numbers remains a distant prospect, optimizing efficiency, strengthening oversight, and leveraging smarter resource management will be essential for maintaining public safety and operational effectiveness.

Law Enforcement Workforce Challenges

Retention and recruitment of qualified officers
Staffing shortages resulting in excessive overtime and officer fatigue
Budget limitations leading to staffing reductions, outdated equipment, and inadequate training
Managing enforcement of operational policy reforms
Recognizing and ensuring officer safety, wellness, and health
Ensuring training and licensing requirements achieved and reported
Risk of prosecution for on-duty actions
Negative media coverage of police issues
Diversity of workforce personnel and cultural inclusion
Complex payroll calculations for different ranks, divisions, and collective bargaining agreements

What Can Division Leaders Do to Operate Efficiently?

Optimize Operations with FieldWare’s Intelligent Workforce Management Solutions

Law enforcement agencies across the nation are streamlining operations, reducing costs, and ensuring compliance with their own policy rules using our cloud-based software and companion mobile app. By automating administrative and workforce processes, agencies are eliminating complex compliance challenges and costly manual tasks. Its ideal for individual agencies or as one platform that multiple agencies within a county or state can leverage while preserving their own distinct policy and security requirements.

Automate workforce processes for multiple divisions with different employee ranks, policies, and work locations
Control scheduling, staffing, payroll calculations, asset assignments, and training based on agency policies
Provide online and mobile self-services for scheduling, personnel's requests and so much more.
Control security role access and capabilities based on agency requirements
Effectively manage overtime costs and mitigate costly compliance risk

Use advanced technology automation to get the right persons, with the right skills, to the right locations, using the right equipment, and pay them the right amount.

Why FieldWare for Law Enforcement?

FieldWare is dedicated to the professionals running public safety organizations. Our software and mobile solutions are designed to simplify extremely complex staffing, time and attendance, payroll calculations, personnel, asset and training requirements based on each division's unique needs.

It’s ‘What’s Under the Hood’ that Sets Us Apart.

Our solutions are highly configurable, integrate easily with other technology platforms, and are securely hosted within our Azure Microsoft Government infrastructure.

Rules-based automation of highly complex workforce policies with adaptable security role access and system capabilities
Automate policies based on different Division's ranks, work locations and unique needs
Interface exchanges of changing data with various external platforms for increased efficiencies
Self-service reporting and analytics that provide insights for data-driven decision making

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Some of Our Law Enforcement Customers

Bexar County Sheriff's Office

Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office

Loudoun County Sheriff's Office

Riverside Sheriff's Office

Louisville Metro Police Department

Prince George's County Sheriff's Office

Homestead Police Department

Oklahoma City Police Department

El Paso Police Department

Dallas Police Department

Columbus Police Department

Abbotsford, BC Canada

Colorado Springs Police Department

Your Long Term Partner

As your long-term partner, we know that deploying your solution is just the beginning. We will continue to add value by providing forward thinking best practices that are tough problem solvers. From how to use operational analytics for smart decision making to offering methods for controlling costs and ensuring compliance, our job is to continuously add value to your investment.

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