Performance Details
Department of Public Safety - Alaska Police Standards Council
Mission
To produce and maintain highly trained and positively motivated professional officers, capable of meeting contemporary law enforcement standards of performance.
Core Services
- Provide academy, in-service, and advanced training for police, corrections, probation, parole, and municipal correctional officers.
- Ensure compliance with APSC minimum qualification regulations.
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Performance Detail
A: Result - Professionalism among police, corrections, probation, parole, and municipal correctional officers. |
A1: Core Service - Provide academy, in-service, and advanced training for police, corrections, probation, parole, and municipal correctional officers. |
Target #2: 5% increase over the previous year in the number of hours of advanced training of officers received through APSC sponsorship.
Number of Sponsored Officer Hours of Advanced and Inservice Training
Analysis of results and challenges: Until FY2018, APSC sponsored municipal police and corrections officers' attendance at the basic police or municipal corrections academy. Numbers previously reported were for the number of students sponsored by APSC. Beginning with FY 2019, the legislature expressed its intent that APSC's Police Training Fund NOT be used for sponsoring basic officer training; instead, the legislature directed these costs should be borne by municipal agencies. Since FY2019 no officer has been sponsored by APSC to attend a basic academy, rendering this metric obsolete; instead APSC has focused its efforts on sponsoring more advanced and in-service training to help enhance the skills of the workforce and profession. Beginning this year, APSC has modified the Core Service Target to report the number of officer-hours of advanced and in-service training sponsored by APSC. There was no advanced in-service training for experienced officers in FY2018 due to declining collections of police training surcharge funds. In FY2019 APSC sponsored ten training events that reached 165 officers and delivered 4,118 hours of advanced in-service training. FY 2020 training schedules were severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in the cancellation of nearly every training event pre-scheduled after February 2020. Nevertheless, APSC sponsored 257 officers' attendance in 16 training events and delivered 5695 officer-hours of training in FY2020. |
A2: Core Service - Ensure compliance with APSC minimum qualification regulations. |
Target #1: Process all misconduct investigations as required by the Administrative Procedures Act.
Percentage of Internal Investigations Closed
Analysis of results and challenges: To fully resolve any compliance issues, all misconduct investigations are completed as soon as possible. When misconduct is substantiated, administrative action begins and can sometimes take several years to resolve, frequently resulting in the revocation or surrender of an officer's certificate. When misconduct is not determined to be disqualifying, the case is closed immediately with no further action taken by Alaska Police Standards Council. During FY2020 the council opened 46 new misconduct or disqualification investigations or cases, and closed 39. Twenty cases were resolved in FY2020 with a revocation or disqualification action. As of October 6, 2020, APSC has 27 ongoing cases. These cases are in various stages of investigation or administrative action (i.e., pending criminal convictions, discovery, court hearings, council action, and/or superior court appeals). The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the continuation of many adjudicatory cases that would normally have been resolved more quickly; APSC currently has 5 open cases pending hearings with the Office of Administrative Hearings. The reported closed investigations include cases that were closed during FY2020, regardless of which year they were initiated. |
Current as of November 13, 2020