CDI Strengths

The major strength of this organization is the vast area that it covers. The department is spread out to cover all of California an yet the departments still communicate efficiently. The other week, a detective from the sacramento branch spent the week in southern California and was able to work his case out of the local office there with the help of detectives from that branch. It just showed me how although hundreds of miles apart, each branch functions together as one unit to accomplish the mission of the department.

If I were in charge of the an organization similar to CDI, I would focus more on employee retention and training. One major issue with law enforcement agencies is lack of funding for training once peace officers get out of a basic academy. Officers go through a rigorous academy to get into the career but then do not et much training after. Driving skills are retrained only twice a year for a majority of departments yet car accidents account for almost 40 percent of officer deaths a year. There are many other areas of training that get overlooked because of funding. I would allocate more funds to training to keep the officers within my organization up to date on current tactics.