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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: SPD to start performance evaluations On Jan. 1, Shelbyville Police Chief Bill Elliott will begin implementing a new performance evaluation policy for his police officers and other department employees. "We've never had any type of evaluation before - none whatsoever," said Elliott, who has served as chief for 2-1/2 years. Elliott recognized the need for a policy that would reward outstanding performance and identify and improve deficiencies. "At any place you work these days, you have minimum requirements and expectations," he said. Under the new program, all employees of the police department will be evaluated by their immediate supervisor on a quarterly basis. According to Elliott, patrol officers and field-training officers will be given a specific point value for arrests involving certain traffic offenses. The patrol officer must have a total of at least 30 points at the end of each month. Points will start over at zero on the first day of each month. Points will range from a half-point for a traffic violation warning to five points for an "operating while intoxicated" or for what is considered a "target violation." An example of a "target violation" is an area of the city in which residents have complained to the police department about loud vehicles that violate the city's noise ordinance. "This will allow me to specify that as a target area, and the patrol officers can go out and work those problems," Elliott said. Other target areas might include complaints from citizens about drivers who are speeding or running stop signs, and involve other ordinance violations. "Officers may only count one violation per person per contact," Elliott said. A month will be based on 18 working days. Vacation, personal time, sick time, short-term disability and other time off will be taken into consideration when factoring in the totals for each month, Elliott said. "Taking this into consideration, officers will have to earn 1.67 points per working day to attain their required standards," said the policy, which is called "General Order No. 49." All other positions within the department will have a job task analysis conducted for the objective portion of their individual evaluations, he said. Elliott said police department employees will be given three points of bonus credit for perfect attendance during the evaluation period. Suspensions will incur a three-point penalty for each day of suspension within the rating period. Police officers who do not meet the minimum number of points per month will be given a substandard performance evaluation. "Substandard performance evaluations shall be considered "substandard performance' and grounds for disciplinary action," the policy states. As with any organization, there are employees who consistently do their jobs, day after day, Elliott said. "And then you have the ones who just do enough to get by," he said. New incentives When Elliott started examining the department's activity logs, he noticed discrepancies among what his officers were accomplishing. "I have always noticed that a few officers were working a little harder than others, but I didn't realize it was that unbalanced," he said. In early 2006, Elliott began an incentive program by giving out an "Officer of the Month" award to officers with the most activity, best attitude and no disciplinary problems during that particular month. The department also gave out "Officer of the Year" and "Drunk Driving Enforcement Officer of the Year" awards each year. "They get their name on a plague, name on our Web site and a nice jacket," Elliott said. "We hoped this would motivate officers that had poor activity, but it didn't seem to make a difference. We still had the same few officers getting the award each month." The new performance evaluation policy encourages activity, but the police officers won't be able to get all of their points by just handing out parking tickets, for example. "I only allow them to count 10 parking tickets per month," Elliott said. The Shelbyville Police Department currently employs 37 people, including 28 patrol officers and one person who is attending the police academy. Elliott said evaluations can be positive tools for supervisors and employees. "If you don't set standards for them, how do they know what is expected of them?" asked Elliott.
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