2016 Annual Report

2016 Annual Report

2016 ANNUAL REPORT FORT WORTH POLICE DEPARTMENT

City of Fort Worth—Working together to build a strong community .

2016 ANNUAL REPORT

Fort Worth Police Department

Message from the Chief On behalf of the dedicated members of the Fort Worth Police Department, I am proud to present to you the 2016 Annual Report. This report is a reflection of the department’s hard work and commitment to make Fort Worth one of the safest cities in the nation and showcases the progress we have made in making Fort Worth a great place to live, work, and play. In January 2016, the Department began to change the way we do business by engaging key stakeholders throughout the community to create a new Strategic Plan. The FY17-FY21 Strategic Plan identifies the priorities the department should focus on during the next five years. To be fully successful, implementing the goals and action items in the FY17-FY21 Strategic Plan will require the commitment and participation of the community, City officials, and all members of the Fort Worth Police Department. The department is pleased with recent accomplishments including reducing crime by more than 13% since 2012, creating and nurturing relationships by hosting community forums, returning to a beat concept for patrol officers, establishing a Police Athletic League, implementing technology improvements to help with crime prevention such as a community camera program, and investing in professional development with more advanced training related to procedural justice, focused deterrence programs, and mental health. This report includes more details about these accomplishments and other initiatives the department began in 2016. It is an honor to work with the nearly 2,100 dedicated and professional staff within the Fort Worth Police Department. Their dutiful efforts and service are reflected throughout this report. Thank you for your continued support.

In This Issue

Department Overview…...2

Strategic Plan Update…...4

Calls for Service………….8

Crime Statistics…………..9

Crime Control and Prevention District…..…...11

2016 Departmental Initiatives:

 Community...………12

 Partnerships……….15

 National and Local

Initiatives…………...17

 Personnel…...……..18

 Technology…..........22

Joel F. Fitzgerald, Ph.D Chief of Police

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Department Overview

Department Organization

The FWPD organization is led by the Chief of Police and consists of the following three bureaus: Patrol, Support, and Finance/Personnel. Each bureau is managed by an Assistant Chief and consists of two Commands that include Divisions, Sections, and Units.

Chief of Police

Support Bureau

Finance/Personnel Bureau

Patrol Bureau

FWPD Personnel

As of December 31, 2016, the Fort Worth Police Department employed an authorized strength of 1,635 civil service and 461 civilian staff members. The number of authorized civil service positions are separated by rank below. In 2016, there was one officer for every 500 residents in Fort Worth.

173

13

46

3

5

231

1,137

Sergeants

Captains

Lieutenants

Assistant Chiefs

Deputy

Corporals & Detectives

Officers

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Department Overview

A new vision statement, mission statement, and core values were created in 2016 as part of the process to update the FWPD Five-Year Strategic Plan. The Honor Code remains the same.

Vision

The Fort Worth Police Department will be a national leader in law enforcement by maintaining a trusted partnership with the community, employing diverse and highly skilled professionals and implementing an innovative policing model focused on community engagement, crime prevention, advanced training, and problem solving.

Mission

The Fort Worth Police Department exists to safeguard the lives and property of those we serve, to reduce the incidence and fear of crime, and to enhance public safety through partnering and building trust with the community.

Core Values

Core values form the framework for our work, and identify the conduct and the character that members of this organization align ourselves with to achieve the mission. The core values of the Fort Worth Police Department form the acronym P.A.N.T.H.E.R.

P rofessional

A ccountable

N oble

T ruthful

H onorable

E thical

R espectful

Honor Code

I will respectfully serve the citizens of Fort Worth and the Fort Worth Police Department. I will dedicate myself to the protection of life, property, and our public trust. My integrity, character, and courage will be above reproach, and I will accept no less from other members of our department.

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FY17-FY21 Strategic Plan Update

Upon the arrival of a new Police Chief in October 2015, Joel Fitzgerald renewed internal discussions to create a new strategic planning process. The planning process resulted in the creation of the new Fort Worth Police Department FY17-FY21 Strategic Plan. A diverse Strategic Plan Advisory Committee was assembled to help guide the planning process. The committee consisted of FWPD staff including all ranks both sworn and civilian as well as, city officials and community stakeholders. The Committee met monthly between February and June 2016 to review and reassess prior focus areas, determine if they were still appropriate, and whether new (or revised) focus areas should move to the forefront of the new plan. A SWOT (Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) exercise and a vision and mission prioritization exercise were conducted at the meetings. Through these exercises, a new vision statement and mission statement were

created as well as new core values for the department. The entire department had the opportunity to vote on the new statements and core values. Through Strategic Plan Advisory Committee input, four Strategic Directions were identified that form the basis of the plan including the goals and action items. The four Strategic Directions are Professionalism and Organizational Excellence, Community Engagement and Partnerships, Operational Improvements, and Technology Development and Infrastructure Expansion. Detailed descriptions of the Strategic Directions are on the next page. The purpose of the Fort Worth Police Department (FWPD) FY17-FY21 Strategic Plan is to identify departmental and community priorities for the next five years, to establish S.M.A.R.T. (specific, manageable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound) goals, and to identify personnel in the organization designated to address them. The department intends for this document to serve as a guide for anyone interested in FWPD’s priorities. The Strategic Plan incorporates pertinent sections, or pillars, from the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing Report, the Justice Department’s National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice, the 3-E-Action Plan, initiatives derived from these documents, and community input during the planning process. Key sections of the strategic plan include Fort Worth demographics and growth trends, staffing models and workload analysis, capital improvement plan, technology development, FWPD operational and initiative information, strategic direction goals, bureau goals, and a community engagement and program handbook. The plan is expected to be presented to the City Council in 2017.

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FY17-FY21 Strategic Plan

Strategic Directions

Professionalism and Organizational Excellence: Professionalism and Organizational Excellence refers to maintaining the standards of behavior that align FWPD’s actions and attitude with the department’s mission, vision, and core values. The purpose of specifying these standards of behavior is to give FWPD employees guidance in understanding their role in the department’s success. This strategic direction also allows the community an opportunity to review the department’s expectations of its employees.

Community Engagement and Partnership: Fostering trust with fellow members of this community is a vital step towards creating sustained crime reductions. Community engagement is working with stakeholders to collaborate and build trusting relationships, to reduce crime and improve the health of the community.

Operational Improvements: Operational improvements advance the delivery of quality police services and enable the department to meet short and long-term goals. In order to address the emergent challenges that confront all law enforcement agencies, it is critical that FWPD make modifications to the operational structure to address inefficiencies. Technology Development and Infrastructure Expansion: An expanding reliance upon technology has transformed policing in many ways. New and emergent technologies have increasingly critical roles in the daily work of officers; and largely dictate the probability that a department meets the expectations of citizens. In order to support current and future operational needs, existing police facilities should also be flexible, adaptive, and supportive enough to facilitate change.

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2016 Patrol Divisions and Beats

Fort Worth includes 353 square miles and serves 833,319 residents. Patrol is currently divided into five divisions: North, East, South, West and Central. The five divisions and 81 patrol beats are displayed on this map.

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Calls for Service

2016 Calls

Calls for Service Five-Year Trend

Total Calls Received

300,000

20,072

22,674

19,964

1,192,471

25,046

28,003

250,000

200,000

208,932

208,869

211,355

207,024

201,197

911 Calls Received

150,000

843,350

100,000

50,000

69,762

65,731

63,997

59,464

56,731

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2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

Calls Dispatched

Priority 3 Priority 2 Priority 1

385,150

Total calls for service decreased 3.5% between 2012–2016. Priority 1 calls increased 39.5% between 2012 and 2016.

Officers Responded

290,680

3.5%

39.5%

Total Calls for Service 2012-2016

Priority 1 Calls 2012-2016

Non-Emergency Calls

349,391

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Crime Statistics

Overall Crime Increased 0.8% in 2016 A total of 70,676 of- fenses occurred in Fort Worth in 2016, which is a 1.3 percent decrease from 2015. The majori- ty (56 percent) of the offenses were property -related, which de- clined 1.7 percent from 2015 to 2016. Crimes Against Persons ac- counted for 19 percent of all offenses with a 6.7 percent increase from 2015.

2016 Crime Statistic Summary The Fort Worth Police Department uses the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to provide a comprehensive and accurate summary of criminal activity in Fort Worth. With NIBRS, FWPD has the capability to generate crime reports that reflect interrelationships within the >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26

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