Law Enforcement Staffing Study Analyst

Alphahire; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaGov is seeking a Law Enforcement Staffing Study Analyst to translate calls-for-service and workload data into defensible staffing recommendations for chiefs, sheriffs, city managers, and governing boards. This is a remote-first, 1099 project-based contract with occasional client travel.

You will extract and clean CAD/RMS data, build patrol workload models, evaluate shifts, and draft findings and recommendations for leadership teams. Strong data skills in Excel/SQL/R/Python are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience conducting or supporting law enforcement staffing, workload, or deployment studies.
• Strong data skills with CAD/RMS extracts in Excel, SQL, R, Python, or similar tools.
• Ability to write clear, defensible findings for non-technical public audiences.
• Comfortable as a 1099 project-based consultant, remote-first with occasional site visits.

Responsibilities

• Extract and clean CAD/RMS data to analyze calls for service, workload, response times, and unit availability
• Build patrol workload and staffing models, including shift relief factors and proactive-time targets
• Evaluate shift schedules, beat or zone design, and deployment against demand by hour and day of week
• Assess investigative caseloads, supervisory spans of control, and civilianization opportunities
• Compare staffing and service levels with peer agencies and established methodologies
• Draft findings, charts, and recommendations for chiefs, sheriffs, city managers, and governing boards
• Contribute qualifications and past-performance narrative to AlphaGov proposals when you authorize naming

Skills

Experience in law enforcement staffing

Data skills

Clear findings writing

1099 project-based consultant

Tools

Excel

SQL

R

Python

CAD/RMS

Job description

AlphaGov delivers public-sector consulting for cities, counties, school systems, special districts, utilities, and related agencies. Our work spans classification and compensation, organizational and operational studies, research and program evaluation, economic and workforce analysis, surveys and community research, and applied data and infrastructure research.

We engage experienced practitioners as project-based collaborators. Engagements are remote-first with occasional client travel. When you authorize it, AlphaGov may name you as an expert collaborator or key personnel on proposals that match your expertise. We build ready teams for live pursuits — not speculative staffing banks.

AlphaGov is engaging a Law Enforcement Staffing Study Analyst for current staffing and deployment studies with city and county police and sheriff's agencies. You will turn calls-for-service and workload data into defensible staffing recommendations that agency leaders and elected officials can use.

We confirm scope, schedule, and fee with you before any engagement begins.

What you'll do

• Extract and clean CAD/RMS data to analyze calls for service, workload, response times, and unit availability
• Build patrol workload and staffing models, including shift relief factors and proactive-time targets
• Evaluate shift schedules, beat or zone design, and deployment against demand by hour and day of week
• Assess investigative caseloads, supervisory spans of control, and civilianization opportunities
• Compare staffing and service levels with peer agencies and established methodologies
• Draft findings, charts, and recommendations for chiefs, sheriffs, city managers, and governing boards
• Contribute qualifications and past-performance narrative to AlphaGov proposals when you authorize naming

Requirements

Required

• Experience conducting or supporting law enforcement staffing, workload, or deployment studies
• Strong data skills with CAD/RMS extracts in Excel, SQL, R, Python, or similar tools
• Ability to write clear, defensible findings for non-technical public audiences
• Comfortable as a 1099 project-based consultant, remote-first with occasional site visits

Nice to have

• Sworn or civilian law enforcement planning, crime analysis, or command experience
• Familiarity with published patrol staffing and workload-analysis methods
• GIS experience with beat or zone redesign

Sounds like your next step?

Meet the team

AlphaHire

AlphaGov (Casa Moon LLC d/b/a AlphaGov) is a public-sector consulting firm that delivers specialized services to cities, counties, school systems, special districts, utilities, and related government agencies. The firm's work spans classification and compensation studies, organizational and operational analysis, research and program evaluation, economic and workforce analysis, surveys and community research, housing and community development planning, grant administration technical assistance, emergency management and resilience studies, and applied data and infrastructure research. AlphaGov engages experienced practitioners on a project-based, remote-first model with occasional client travel, building dedicated teams for active pursuits rather than maintaining speculative staffing pools.