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It’s More Than Just a Torch Run… Many of you have already supported the Law Enforcement Torch Run ® for Special Olympics. But what really is the Torch Run? Most if not all of us are aware of the annual Final Leg Run where officers from around your area carry the “Flame of Hope” to light the cauldron for your Opening Ceremonies of the Special Olympics Summer Games. But it doesn’t end there. Throughout the year the Law Enforcement Torch Run ® for Special Olympics organizes numerous other fundraising activities. These activities include Motorcycle Runs, Fire Truck and Semi Pulls, Polar Plunges, Snowmobile Rides, Building Sits, Golf Tournaments and Tip-a-Cop to name a few. This year will be the second year for the newest LETR organized event in Wisconsin. It’s the 25th Anniversary Charter Communications Tinman Triathlon. The triathlon is a fully sanctioned USA Triathlon ½ Ironman and International Tri course that draws participants from throughout the United States to Menomonie, Wisconsin. The Menomonie Tinman Triathlon officially partnered with the LETR in 2004 and created the official “Charter Communications Tinman Triathlon” benefiting the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics Wisconsin. In 2004 the race was looking for leadership and a race director and the volunteers of the LETR were looking for a different type of fundraiser in the Indianhead Area. Participation in the Charter Communications Tinman Triathlon will not only help the Indianhead Area Special Olympics, but will support your agency’s commitment to a healthier lifestyle. Charter Communications Menomonie Tinman Triathlon Sunday, June 12, 2005 8:30 Long Start, 9:30 Int’l Start • Wakanda Park, Menomonie, WI Brief Description: International Course: ¾M swim, 32.9M bike, 10K run Long Course: 1.5M Swim, 58.5M bike, 20K run Prices: Individual Entry: $70 Relay Entry (3 Person Team): $165 Relay Entry (2 Person Team): $110 Online Reg. Closes: May 31, 2005 11:59 PM Pacific Time Age limits: Proceeds: Long course participants must be 18 years of age by day of event. Relay participants must be 14 years of age by day of event. Proceeds benefit Indianhead Area Special Olympics and the Dunn Co Food Pantry Race on your own or as a team, just like “Code Blue,” a team of three lieutenants from the Menomonie Police Department. “There is no better way to challenge yourself and to have a goal in your personal physical fitness. Working toward this goal as a team was fun, and it gave me the peer encouragement and the support that I needed.” said Lt. Wendy Stelter, Menomonie Police Department. As this year’s race director, I am challenging members of the Law Enforcement community to commit to participating in the 25th Charter Communications Tinman Triathlon. For more information on the race, go to http://www.tinmantriathlon.org Lisa Walter, Chief of Police, UW-Stout PD Race Director, Charter Communications Tinman Triathlon Chair, IACLEA – LETR Committee MARCH/APRIL 2005 / 15
Dashboard Management, A Public Safety Application By Henry L. Christensen, Director, University of Miami Department of Public Safety and Lt. William Gerlach, M.P.A., University of Miami Department of Public Safety If you drove anywhere today, you probably started the car and glanced at the gas gauge, temperature, oil pressure and check engine lights. Chances are you were making sure you had the fuel to get to your destination, and the car was mechanically capable of getting you there. Car dashboards are becoming loaded with impressive new technology such as global tracking, electronic notification of air pressure, electronic driving help desk and more. The information presented to you on the car’s dashboard quickly gives you the insight to decide if the vehicle will take you where you want to go without opening the hood and checking the various fluids and components. On the way home from work you want to know your car is running at top performance; if not, you need to get your car repaired. Managers, like drivers, need to have a dashboard for their organization. You must have information tools for quickly measuring and monitoring the organization’s status and ability to reach the desired destination or goal. You must be able to receive help in time of need. You need to know where the organization is going, where it presently is and if it has the gas, oil and spark to get it there. You also need to know and understand the organization’s place in a larger organization, how it supplies other organizations, and how it consumes the resources of others. Like an automobile you can look under the hood of your organization, but it would be easier to have a dashboard that would let you sit down, buckle up University of Miami and go (unless you have a warning light on). The University of Miami Department of Public Safety, in Coral Gables, Florida, uses a management tool, called a Dashboard, to accomplish this. This living document is used to consolidate data and present it in graphical formats. The dashboard helps consolidate the framework for strategic plans in your fleet and measures the progress of continuous improvement projects It is driven, from the top down, by the University’s mission, strategic objectives, and goals. The mission, goals and objectives for which the Department of Public Safety has inputs, outputs and throughputs establish the Department’s own mission, goals and objectives. The dashboard presents these relationships in cascading order from goals to key objectives to key indicators to projects. The Department is a unit of Business Services. This fleet all works on “Dashboard management.” Bookstore drivers measure on their dashboard textbook availability; Purchasing measures quality of staffing; and our new “e: Canes Travel” uses its dashboard to measure travel performance. The Public Safety Dashboard, therefore, has goals and key objectives which spill into it from the Business Services Dashboard, a point which illustrates why an understanding of inputs, outputs and throughputs is so important. We are interconnected with many other units of the University. Our goals and objectives reflect this and we need tools to help us monitor, measure and achieve them in an environment that is constantly changing and growing in complexity. TQM Driven It is important to note that our Department strongly subscribes to Total Quality Management, or Six Sigma principles (we call this Continuous Improvement or CI at the University of Miami), and these principles guide our long- and short-range decisions, as well as our daily activities. Data is gathered and analyzed in accordance with Continuous Improvement. Our decisions are not driven by emotions, knee-jerk reactions or hunches. Using data, decisions are based on facts. Data is linked to our objectives and is presented graphically. Most data appears as statistical control charts (an advanced form of a line graph), and is presented with the averages, upper and lower sta- Continued on page 17 16 / Campus Law Enforcement Journal
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