Employee Comments Concerning PSO Assignment Length and Rotation Policies and Procedures

• Main Author: UAA Justice Center
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage 1993
• Subjects: Alaska Natives; bush justice; employment; law enforcement; North Slope Borough; Alaska; police; rural justice; Arctic; Reno; north slope
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/10007

Aggregated results of the NSBDPS Employee Survey, including results for the questions included in this report, were reported in a 1993 conference paper "Policing the Arctic: The North Slope of Alaska" by John E. Angell and Lawrence C. Trostle, available at https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/handle/11122/10005. At the request of the North Slope Borough Department of Public Safety (NSBDPS), the Justice Center conducted a survey of NSBDPS employees which elicted employee opinions about their jobs, the public, and the NSBDPS's role. Both sworn and nonsworn employees were surveyed. This brief report extracts comments made by employees to specific questions from the survey concerning Public Safety Officer (PSO) assignment lengths in rural villages and rotation policies. For each question included, the text of the question is presented, followed by employee comments. Aggregated results of the survey were reported in a conference paper presented in Reno, Nevada in 1993 (https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/handle/11122/10005). North Slope Borough Department of Public Safety 29. "North Slope Borough public safety officers could do a better job if they didn't have to live as long in the community where they work." / 35. "The duration of a public safety officer's assignment in one community is too short for the officer to develop the capacity to perform most effectively." / 69. "A NSBDPS officer should not be expected to live in the village where he or she works." / 70. "I believe that residents of the North Slope Borough generally like the NSBDPS officers assigned to their communities." / 81. "Train officers for assignment in specific communities and give them long-term, stable assignments in the communities they have been trained to serve." / 87. "Provide flexible working hours and increase the public safety officers' discretion concerning the hours they work." / 88. "Provide more time off or longer periods off duty."