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I suspect for most forces the payroll budget is nowhere near large enough to hire people with appropriate skills, either. I've lived in places where the chief
by bunderbunder 12y ago
I suspect for most forces the payroll budget is nowhere near large enough to hire people with appropriate skills, either. I've lived in places where the chief of police's salary would be considered entry-level pay by IT professionals.
- adav 12y agoThis applies to every public sector job that's related to cutting-edge IT.
- IgorPartola 12y agoWhy does every small town police department need its own staff for investigating "digital" crime? A centralized agency would actually be much more efficient for this, one that can collaborate with the local police department to match physical and digital evidence, perform arrests, etc. Not that I want yet another acronym agency charged with investigating everyone on the Internet, but it seems a waste to have each police department try to set up its own digital forensics lab.
- jahewson 12y agoIn the UK a town (or what in the US would be called a "city") does not have its own police department. Instead the UK is divided into just 45 territorial police forces, typically the size of a county. So the parent comment is not as inefficient as it would be in a US context where each town has its own independent force.