Earlier this week I wrote that during a brief intermission in Tuesday’s city council meeting. I asked City Manager Scott Sellers whether the Matrix Consulting Group’s planned audit for the Kyle Police Department that the council had authorized just moments before "would reveal whether (1) the police department was operating at peak efficiency, (2) the department was effectively serving its customers and (3) was the department wisely spending taxpayers’ dollars" and that Sellers replied "Absolutely." (He elaborated further you can read in his entire response in the first bullet item contained in this story.)
But I decided to pose exactly that same question to Richard Brady, the president of the Matrix Consulting Group and the person in charge of the company’s government consulting practice and he replied: "The simple answer is yes, our study will address all three objectives."
The company’s web site says much the same thing.
"Our overall approach to evaluating law enforcement services is one which strives to balance community demands for service with the equally strong need to provide services efficiently," it says. "To accomplish this we work with our clients to clearly define their service level expectations so that our analysis can show the cost and service implications of each decision regarding staffing, deployment and operations."
So there’s that.
For the record, Brady holds a doctorate from Oxford and, according to the company’s website, his "experience encompasses over 30 years in the analysis of every local governmental service in hundreds of jurisdictions throughout the country."
So there's that, as well.
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