Darien Police Chief Reflects on Changes Made in First Year
Chief Ernest Brown said he utilizes past experience in Chicago to increase efficiency, effectiveness of Darien Police Department, including changing late-night and summer staffing.
Ernest Brown marked his first year as Darien’s Chief of Police last week. And in his initial 12 months in the position, Brown has brought some big-city thinking to small-town Darien. Soon after the 28-year veteran of the police department for the City of Chicago took the reins as chief in Darien last November, he began working with his staff to evaluate the department’s resources in an effort to improve its overall efficiency. After extracting data from the police department’s records, Brown saw a pattern beginning to emerge. He noticed that the peak times for call volume is usually between 3 p.m. and 2 a.m. But Darien officers’ shifts were typically spread out evenly over the course of the day. “Not to denigrate the officers’ self-…
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Mike Minardi
8:39 am on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
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