ShareWoodbury: 2008 City of Excellence Award Winner
Public Safety Department Integration
Category: Population of 20,000+
The City of Woodbury recognized a need to think more strategically about how its public safety department is staffed, and how it delivered its fire and emergency medical services. It formed a task force, which ultimately recommended a unique full Public Safety Integration Model. That option consisted of cross-training police officers to be firefighters or paramedics, and included hiring additional personnel.
Benefits of this approach include improved response times and greater organizational flexibility to meet changing service demands. The chosen option has also proven to be more cost effective than others considered, such as a traditional, 24-hour, full-time fire department.
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