Sheriff Hutchens Hires Chief Scott for Strategy Work
Posted by: CotoBlogzz | 07/10/2008 8:44 PM
Retired Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Chief John L. Scott has been hired as a consultant by the county to work with Sheriff Sandra Hutchens in her assessment of Department operations. He will focus first on the Department's jail system, with five jails and an average daily population of 6,500.
His role as a consultant will be to help Sheriff Hutchens coordinate a standard audit that will review overall operations at each facility, with shift by shift evaluations and recommendations on how to improve daily operations.
Chief Scott will also help in a comprehensive review of jail policies and procedures and prepare recommendations for improvement. Existing policies will also be reviewed from a security standpoint.
Staffing will also be reviewed to determine if there needs to be changes in selection and training of custody staff.
A cost benefit analysis will be undertaken to evaluate the functionality, appropriateness and efficiency of the three existing classifications of jail staff, Deputies, Sheriff's Special Officers and Corrections Services Technician, and determine whether a fourth category is required.
The final function of his service will be to help develop strategic planning information to be used by OCSD to implement recommendations derived from the audits.
We were expecting to see a SMART 120-Day plans from Sheriff Hutchens. Seems like Sheriff Hutchens' strategic component will be derived from Chief Scott's audits.
His role as a consultant will be to help Sheriff Hutchens coordinate a standard audit that will review overall operations at each facility, with shift by shift evaluations and recommendations on how to improve daily operations.
Chief Scott will also help in a comprehensive review of jail policies and procedures and prepare recommendations for improvement. Existing policies will also be reviewed from a security standpoint.
Staffing will also be reviewed to determine if there needs to be changes in selection and training of custody staff.
A cost benefit analysis will be undertaken to evaluate the functionality, appropriateness and efficiency of the three existing classifications of jail staff, Deputies, Sheriff's Special Officers and Corrections Services Technician, and determine whether a fourth category is required.
The final function of his service will be to help develop strategic planning information to be used by OCSD to implement recommendations derived from the audits.
We were expecting to see a SMART 120-Day plans from Sheriff Hutchens. Seems like Sheriff Hutchens' strategic component will be derived from Chief Scott's audits.
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Mr. Ayer registered as a Republican to be electable in an interim election with no incumbents. He did...
...seems like the 120-day plan is turning into the 120, 140, 160, etc. day plan.
In the private sector, if you are not competitive you need to outsource or perish. A bureaucrat, as in the FDA, the DMV, or the OCSD, all you need to do is do enough to stay employed until you reach 3%-50.
Then if you reach the executive ranks, regardless of how lousy your performance is (as in the FDA), you get a bonus!
Perhaps this is why in this case a number of audits are required to end up with a strategy for the department, right on time for the next election! – As compared to starting out with a vision, a strategy and perhaps an audit strictly for implementation/benchmarking purposes, as one would do in the private sector.