Getting the Home Office/Department of
Public Safety
In Order, When Your
Budgets Are Cut 20%
By Nick Ashton, Founder, CEO,
Tracometry Group of Companies.
With every economic downturn politicians always
view to begin with, how they can muddle through, it is in their DNA and goes
back generations. It is later on they
admit, their hit and miss belt tightening fails and then they go back to the
public with a plea that there are no more notches on the belt to tighten and
the coffers are empty. What that means
is simply, the public will pay with increased taxes and less much needed
services. It is the people you voted in
that have failed in handling the budget correctly. What happened to good solid rainy day funding, preparing for
adversity and economic preparation? Not
in the vocabulary of a politician, so it seems.
This is just the way the wheels turn in every municipality, USA and every
town or city in the rest of the world.
City
Hall serves the people, not ignores them and just does it the Sinatra way.
Accountants
or bean counters are not the most
popular people in the world as they tell us what is available in reality on a
monetary basis and what you must focus on with cost cutting and what can be
spent. Our societies today want it all
now and we cry foul when we cannot achieve that selfish goal.
In
public safety, budgets can be gone in the flash as events are unplanned and
socially you are on call for anything, 24/7/365. Public Safety Directors have a worse job than
a weather forecaster. The difference is,
we see the information on the coming weather patterns because corporations,
both private and government, have invested in technology and forward thinking
solutions for the sake of the public’s safety.
Is it the best? No! Have other
nations spent more and developed other technologies that are not in use in the
USA? Yes they have. This though in the
USA is on the right track and more innovation is on the way.
20% cost cutting in an area of public safety, that
never has enough money in the first place, is nonsensical. Criminals have far
better weapons, mobile communications and connected intelligence at the higher
levels. Mid-level criminals only think
they have and still cost major resources, it is the lower level criminal, which
there are many, which have a constant drag on costs, manpower and lacking
resources. This the area of expertise that we can make the vital difference.
The
financial stability of a nation is predicated on the further stability of the
streets. Budgets have to be realistic
and created by those that understand finances and public safety. Problems in the past have been that the
individual that might be elected or placed in a position as head of public
safety/law enforcement have not had the financial skills necessary. We understand that must make changes,
slashing budgets by a figure of 20% is as bad as not having financial
understanding. A middle ground must be
found.
Public
safety and especially law enforcement has to make a radical and forward think
change now! The development of these
exciting proven techniques by the Tracometry Group of Companies did
not happen overnight and certainly will always be improving as we create new
technology and learn each and every day from the streets. Why?
We listen to the streets and our clients. It is a mindset that our company does not
want the ownership of the criteria and successes, it the overall improvement
worldwide for public safety that is the ultimate satisfaction.
We
have a worldwide conference table at our fingertips to discuss the necessary
changes that are required now. Money is
not flush, so we are cognizant of the abilities and levels to invest with the
opportunities to use the limited resources of departments today.
Private enterprise has invested enormous amounts of
capital, expertise, street smarts and developed a successful Tracometry Group of Companies crime fighting circle of fire, powered by BAIR Analytics, covering all
eventualities. For municipalities, law enforcement, both international,
regional and local to try to develop what has already been achieved is
pointless and not cost effective. Crime
cannot be fought with just more IT! In
fact you would end up with thousands of different analytic systems that have no
ability to share the information. This
is putting you back to square one. You
only have to look at radio communications systems and how, even today, we lack
in cross agency secure communications, which hampers us all, except the
criminal of course.
It is
not just about what is available today with technology, it is about the
experienced officers, mangers and the thought processes that have been
entrenched in professional people who really care. You lose them when you cut budgets with an
axe. In England the same cuts are
occurring and more than 2,000 of the most experienced police officers will be
made to retire by 2015 as forces across England and Wales try to find 20%
budget cuts, a British Labour political party survey has claimed.
You
lose them and then have to fill their shoes with younger inexperienced
recruits, spending even more money which you do not have on training and not
expanding your technology base, which will make a radical change in crime
fighting and the solving of crimes. Is
that not what policing is all about?
Stopping crime occurring and solving those that do, efficiently and
productively is the basis of professional crime fighting.
So why are Tracometry
Group of Companies being touted as the most successful in the realm of
crime fighting technology? Simple, their
solutions, approach, staff and full understanding of the situations. We work in the Real World of getting the job done.
Our customer service is our highest priority and second to none, in any
industry in the world. It is a family
that treats all of client’s analysts as they are employees. Nothing is too much trouble in advising and
demonstrating how to achieve a particular analytic goal. It is our core, it is our life…
- Crime analytics
- Tracking Analysis
- Calls for Service Data
- Social Media Tracking in Real Time
- Next Event Predictability
- Over 500 agencies use our services + Internationally
- DoD (Department of Defense) Military Success
- Street Level Data Input in Real Time Distribution
- The Pied Piper Community Rejuvenation
- Recoupeit – reuniting revenues (Municipality Debt Collection)
- 43 years of proven experience
Electronically
we are as close as you want us to be.
Allow us to show you the solutions, via a 30 minute live webinar. We will introduce the solutions, that are
the change, in a cost effective form necessary with the investment perspective and the
solution criteria at hand.
WE
are in the NOW and
KEEP YOU; in the KNOW…
Call: +1 (317) 426.0110
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