Strategic Plan

A look forward at the City's goals and plans to achieve them

SAFE AND SECURE

Lawrence is a community where all people feel safe and secure and have access to trusted public and community-based safety resources.

Key Performance Indicators

To realize our Vision for Lawrence, we endeavor to achieve this outcome. As such, the City Commission has identified several Progress Indicators to track progress towards this outcome. The Progress Indicators are listed below.

SaS-1: Percent of residents who perceive Lawrence as safe or very safe

Strategies:

  • Provide community education and engagement on support services before, during and after traumatic events.
  • Evaluate public safety processes for opportunities to enhance environmental management practices.

SaS-2: Part 1 crimes per 1,000 residents


Strategies:

  • Use community empowerment and education to eliminate, reduce and respond to events, trends and activities that pose the greatest threat to safety and security.
  • Enhance partnerships and programs community-wide to protect and enhance public health, including physical, behavioral and mental health.
  • Enhance our partnerships with community organizations and governmental agencies to 1) reduce instances of sexual and domestic violence incidents and 2) respond to and assist victims through their recovery.
  • Train and equip personnel to skillfully support mental, behavioral, and physical well-being of community members.
  • Train and equip personnel to effectively respond to and investigate incidents related to Part 1 offenses.
  • Train and equip personnel to effectively responid to and investigate incidents involving sexual and domestic violence.

SaS-3: Percent of fires contained to their room of origin


Strategies:

  • Use community empowerment and education to eliminate, reduce and respond to events, trends and activites that pose the greatest threat to safety and security.
  • Promote prevention information and provide rapid and skilled emergency response to control the spread of fire.

SaS-4: Percent of cardiac arrest patients with pulsatile rhythms upon arrival to a hospital


Strategies:

  • Use community empowerment and education to eliminate, reduce and respond to events, trends and activites that pose the greatest threat to safety and security.
  • Provide rapid and skilled emergency responde to cardiac arrest events..

SaS-5: Number of responses to a mental health crisis per 1,000 residents

Strategies:

  • Enhance partnerships and programs community-wide to protect and enhance public health, including physical, behavioral and mental health.
  • Provide rapid, skilled and appropriate response to Part 1 offenses, domestic violence and other serious, time-critical incidents.
  • Enhance or establish partnerships and collaboration with existing communty organizations, governmental agencies, healthcare providers and schools with a focus on increasing awareness of and access to resources that will impact trends and reduce repeated incidents.
  • Train and equip personnel to skillfully support mental, behavioral, and physical well-being of community members.

SaS-6: Variance of satisfaction with perceptions of safety by race, gender, education and income

Strategies:

  • Establish a baseline, identify gaps and develop activites to improve health impacts to all marginalized identities within the community. Prepare and provide community-based education and solutions based upon the gathered data.
  • Enhance or establish partnerships and collaboration with existing community organizations, governmental agencies, healthcare providers and schools with a focus on increasing awareness of and access to resources that will impact trends and reduce repeated incidents.

SaS-7: Number of Child Protective Services reported incidents to the Kansas Department for Children and Families for Douglas County per 1,000 residents


Strategies:

  • Establish a baseline, identify gaps and develop activities to improve health impacts to all marginalized identities within the community. Prepare and provide community-based education and solutions based upon the gathered data.
  • Enhance or establish partnerships and collaboration with existing community organizations, governmental agencies, healthcare providers and schools with a focus on increasing awareness of and access to resources that will impact trends and reduce repeated incidents.
  • Train and equip personnel to effectively respond to and support the investigation of incidents involving a child in need of care (CINC) or other incidents falling under the jurisdiction of the Kansas Department for Children and Families.

SaS-8: Percent of residents rating trust in emergency services departments as satisfied or very satisfied (Police)

Strategies:

  • Provide community education and engagement on support services before, during and after traumatic events.
  • Develop a strong, reliable and integrated system of volunteer and community resources.
  • Maximize use of civilian capabilities to make deployment of specialized and highly technical personnel more efficient.
  • Evaluate public safety processes for opportunities to enhance environmental management practices.

SaS-8: Percent of residents rating trust in emergency services departments as satisfied or very satisfied (LDCFM)

Strategies:

  • Provide community education and engagement on support services before, during and after traumatic events.
  • Develop a strong, reliable and integrated system of volunteer and community resources.
  • Maximize use of civilian capabilities to make deployment of specialized and highly technical personnel more efficient.
  • Evaluate public safety processes for opportunities to enhance environmental management practices.

SaS-9: Sexual violence per 1,000 residents


Strategies:

  • Use community empowerment and education to eliminate, reduce and respond to events, trends and activities that pose the greatest threat to safety and security.
  • Enhance our partnerships with community organizations and governmental agencies to 1) reduce instances of sexual and domestic violence incidents and 2) respond to and assist victims through their recovery.
  • Provide rapid, skilled and appropriate response to Part 1 offenses, domestic violence and other serious, time-critical incidents.
  • Establish a baseline, identify gaps and develop activities to improve health impacts to all marginalized identities within the community. Prepare and provide community-based education and solutions based upon the gathered data.
  • Enhance or establish partnerships and collaboration with existing community organizations, governmental agencies, healthcare providers and schools with a focus on increasing awareness of and access to resources that will impact trends and reduce repeated incidents.
  • Train and equip personnel to effectively respond to and support the investigation of incidents involving a child in need of care (CINC) or other incidents falling under the jurisdiction of the Kansas Department for Children and families.
  • Train and equip personnel to effectively respond to and investigate incidents related to Part 1 offenses.
  • Train and equip personnel to effectively respond to and investigate incidents involving sexual and domestic violence.

SaS-9: Domestic violence per 1,000 residents


Strategies:

  • Use community empowerment and education to eliminate, reduce and respond to events, trends and activities that pose the greatest threat to safety and security.
  • Enhance our partnerships with community organizations and governmental agencies to 1) reduce instances of sexual and domestic violence incidents and 2) respond to and assist victims through their recovery.
  • Provide rapid, skilled and appropriate response to Part 1 offenses, domestic violence and other serious, time-critical incidents.
  • Establish a baseline, identify gaps and develop activities to improve health impacts to all marginalized identities within the community. Prepare and provide community-based education and solutions based upon the gathered data.
  • Enhance or establish partnerships and collaboration with existing community organizations, governmental agencies, healthcare providers and schools with a focus on increasing awareness of and access to resources that will impact trends and reduce repeated incidents.
  • Train and equip personnel to effectively respond to and support the investigation of incidents involving a child in need of care (CINC) or other incidents falling under the jurisdiction of the Kansas Department for Children and families.
  • Train and equip personnel to effectively respond to and investigate incidents related to Part 1 offenses.
  • Train and equip personnel to effectively respond to and investigate incidents involving sexual and domestic violence.

SaS-10: Expenditure per 1,000 residents for Police


Strategies:

  • Develop a strong, reliable and integrated system of volunteer and community resources.
  • Reduce redundancy with other safety agencies, City departments and communtiy resources.
  • Maximize use of civilian capabilities to make deployment of specialized and highly technical personnel more efficient.
  • Evaluate public safety processes for opportunities to enhance environmental management practices.

SaS-10: Expenditure per 1,000 residents for LDCFM


Strategies:

  • Develop a strong, reliable and integrated system of volunteer and community resources.
  • Reduce redundancy with other safety agencies, City departments and community resources.
  • Maximize use of civilian capabilities to make deployment of specialized and highly technical personnel more efficient.
  • Evaluate public safety processes for opportunities to enhance environmental management practices.

SaS-11: Employee Engagement Index for Police


Strategies:

  • Maximize use of civilian capabilities to make deployment of specialized and highly technical personnel more efficient.
  • Train and equip personnel to effectively respond to and investigate incidents related to Part 1 offenses.
  • Train and equip personnel to effectively respond to and investigate incidents involving sexual and domestic violence.
  • Develop, refine and promote activites related to employee career development and succession planning.
  • Provide safe environments and programs that promote and encourage the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of City employees.
  • Compensate and reward employees so they can focus on complex and long-term outcomes that serve our community.
  • Build trust throughout all levels of the oganization by encouraging feedback and creating open, two-way communication.
  • Recognize our successes through open appreciation.
  • Create a welcoming environment with space for autonomy, innovation and continuous improvement where all members of the organization can discover their purpose.

SaS-12: Employee Engagement Index for LDCFM

Strategies:

  • Maximize use of civilian capabilities to make deployment of specialized and highly technical personnel more efficient.
  • Train and equip personnel to effectively respond to and investigate incidents related to Part 1 offenses.
  • Train and equip personnel to effectively respond to and investigate incidents involving sexual and domestic violence.
  • Develop, refine and promote activites related to employee career development and succession planning.
  • Provide safe environments and programs that promote and encourage the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of City employees.
  • Compensate and reward employees so they can focus on complex and long-term outcomes that serve our community.
  • Build trust throughout all levels of the oganization by encouraging feedback and creating open, two-way communication.
  • Recognize our successes through open appreciation.
  • Create a welcoming environment with space for autonomy, innovation and continuous improvement where all members of the organization can discover their purpose.

SaS-13: Percent of Law Enforcement Officers meeting or exceeding 80 hours of annual training


Strategies:

  • Promote prevention information and provide rapid and skilled emergency response to control the spread of fire.
  • Provide rapid and skilled emergency response to cardiac arrest events.
  • Provide rapid, skilled and appropriate response to Part 1 offenses, domestic violence and other serious, time-critical incidents.
  • Train and equip personnel to effectively respond to and support the investigation of incidents involving a child in need of care (CINC) or other incidents falling under the jurisdiction of the Kansas Department for Children and Families.
  • Train and equip personnel to skillfully support mental, behavioral, and physical well-being of community members.
  • Train and equip personnel to effectively respond to and investigate incidents related to Part 1 offenses.
  • Train and equip personnel to effectively respond to and investigate incidents involving sexual and domestic violence.

SaS-14: Percent of LDCFM operations staff meeting or exceeding 228 hours of firefighter training

Strategies:

  • Promote prevention information and provide rapid and skilled emergency response to control the spread of fire.
  • Provide rapid and skilled emergency response to cardiac arrest events.
  • Provide rapid, skilled and appropriate response to Part 1 offenses, domestic violence and other serious, time-critical incidents.
  • Train and equip personnel to skillfully support mental, behavioral, and physical well-being of community members.