How Much Time Are Administrative Tasks Worth?

How much time are administrative tasks worth?

As a chief or a decision-maker, ask yourself: how much time are my squad commanders spending on repetitive administrative tasks, and how much is that costing the department?

Say you run an agency with 100 officers and your squad commander is in charge of about 15 officers. That commander has to reconcile text messages, emails, and paper vacation slips into one document and upload it.

Then they still have to update old HR software and code vacation time, plus activity sheets, into a system built for general government work, not police work.

Run the math on command-level time

How long does that take? Three to four hours every week? Let us be conservative and call it two hours every week.

That is around eight hours every month for one squad commander, and this is usually one of your highest-paid officers.

Now consider four squads for 24/7 coverage. You are spending around 32 hours every month from high-income earners on repetitive administrative tasks. Is that worth it?

• 2 hours/week x 4 weeks = 8 hours/month per squad commander
• 8 hours x 4 squads = 32 command-level hours/month

Change is hard, but time is still your most expensive resource

I will be the first one to admit that cops do not like change. Sometimes we can be very stubborn when it comes to adopting new technology.

But what if there was a solution that automated this process?

That would free up squad commanders, provide command staff clear visibility on deployment across your beats, and let officers focus on serving the community instead of admin tasks.

This is why we created our platform.

If this sounds familiar

If you have a similar problem, send us an email and we can provide a demo of our software to see if we are the right fit.