These 1,125 officers work 4 ten-hour days a week.
1,125 x 4 = 4,500 ten-hour officer shifts available each week
4,500 divided by 7 days a week = 643 officer shifts per day
643 divided by 3 shifts per day = 214 officers per shift
This 214 officers represents the average number of officers working each shift.
In reality busier shifts have more officers assigned than slower shifts and there are shift overlaps.
Now apply the population of the city of San Diego.
1.3 million divided by the average number of officers working per shift yields:
One officer for every 6,074 residents or .000164 officers per thousand residents
The city's 324 square miles translates to one officer for every 1.5 square miles
Keep in mind that these 214 officers are only the average number of officers working per shift.
Reducing daily staffing would be vacations, sick, injuries, training, compensatory time off, personal holidays, special assignments out of patrol, etc.
These additional daily reductions amount to about 15% each shift.
So the realty is there are about 181 officers working each shift.
So a more accurate average would be one officer working on duty for every 7,182 residents
.000139 officers working on duty per thousand residents
On the average each officer working on duty is responsible to patrol 1.79 square miles
BE SURE TO SEE THE 2007 BUCK CONSULTANTS REPORT OF SDPD OFFICERS' PAY AND BENEFITS VERSUS OTHER AGENCIES BELOW
You, more than likely, have heard many rumors concerning the number of officers planning to leave SDPD. It is important that you do not pass on rumors to your fellow officers. It is your responsibility to determine the veracity of rumors you may hear and not pass on rumors unless you have been able to confirm they are factual. This website was put up to give you factual information. With facts you can make rational and intelligent decisions. With facts you can mimimize emotional reactions to the rumors you may hear. With facts you can remain professional.
These are some facts that have been verified by our Human Resources Division:
This is a list of SDPD Officers showing their dates of resignation and the law enforcement agencies that hired them. The number in parenthesis is the number of years of SDPD service. The four digit number following the # sign is the officer's SDPD ID number.
01/07 - Chesterfield PD, Virginia (16) #4418
01/09 - Federal Bureau of Investigation
02/16 - El Cajon PD
03/15 - Carlsbad PD
06/17 - San Diego City Schools PD
06/18 - Hemet PD (3) #5898
07/21 - Federal Bureau of Investigation (6) #5486
07/24 - Las Vegas, Nevada (2) #5928
07/30 - Federal Bureau of Investigation (4) #5689
07/31 - Lakewood PD, Michigan (9) #5280
08/07 - Escondido PD (2) #5895
08/20 - Murrietta PD (8) #5320
08/27 - Carlsbad PD (2) #5885
09/02 - San Diego District Attorney (19) #3920
09/17 - San Diego District Attorney (14) #4728
09/20 - Mesquite PD, Nevada (1) #5950
10/15 - US Military Police (16) #4402
11/09 - National City PD (25) #2579
2004 Total: 18 officers
During 2004, one SDPD officer left for another agency every 20.3 days
01/02 - San Diego District Attorney (10) #5233
01/06 - San Diego District Attorney (12) #4942
03/15 - San Diego District Attorney (16) #4445
03/29 - Murrietta PD (10) #5270
04/04 - Murrietta PD (6) #5610
04/10 - Federal Bureau of Investigation (2) #5943
04/25 - California Highway Patrol (7) #5468
05/06 - Santa Ana PD (7) #5535
06/03 - San Diego City Schools PD (3) #5882
06/20 - Hemet PD (4) #5831
07/06 - Riverside District Attorney (17) #4329
07/28 - Department Of Justice (8) #5394
08/26 - Anaheim PD (5) #5640
08/31 - Riverside SO (7) #5518
09/09 - Murrietta PD (5) #5648
09/09 - Murrietta PD (5) #5675
09/09 - La Mesa PD (1) #6027
09/14 - Murrietta PD (4) #5796
09/21 - Riverside SO (4) #5855
09/23 - Denver PD, Colorado (8) #5439
09/29 - San Diego District Attorney (20) #3782
10/26 - Riverside SO (4) #5870
10/27 - San Diego District Attorney (22) #3461
10/27 - San Diego District Attorney (21) #3628
10/28 - Murrietta PD (5) #5660
11/09 - El Cajon PD (1) #6092
11/25 - Hemet PD (10) #5244
11/28 - Riverside SO (13) #4924
12/01 - Carlsbad PD (6) #5599
12/02 - Carlsbad PD (3) #5867
12/02 - Santa Monica PD (5) #5661
12/02 - Temecula PD (7) #5505
12/02 - San Diego SO (6) #5626
12/05 - Carlsbad PD (4) #5789
12/05 - Riverside SO (7) #5524
12/08 - San Diego District Attorney (13) #4925
12/11 - Hemet PD (14) #4908
12/15 - Banning PD (5) #5650
12/18 - San Bruno PD (1) #6006
2005 Total: 39 officers totaling 308 years of experience (7.9 years of experience per officer)
During 2005, one SDPD officer left for another agency every 9.4 days
01/13 - Department Of Justice (16) #4739
01/17 - Chula Vista PD (2) #6098
01/18 - Chula Vista PD (16) #4766
01/19 - Chula Vista PD (12) #5184
01/19 - Chula Vista PD (4) #5927
01/19 - Chula Vista PD (5) #5799
01/27 - Riverside SO (7) #5573
02/20 - Fresno PD (2) #6049
02/24 - Riverside SO (5) #5840
02/24 - San Diego City Schools PD (10) #5343
03/02 - US State Department (9) #5449
03/10 - National City PD (20) #3985
03/11 - Riverside SO (9) #5455
03/12 - Carlsbad PD (12) #5166
03/12 - Carlsbad PD (20) #4036
03/14 - Massachusetts State Police (6) #5686
03/16 - San Diego District Attorney (11) #5276
04/03 - Murrieta PD (7) #5545
04/12 - West Valley City PD, Utah (7) #5574
04/12 - Murrieta PD (18) #4270
04/13 - San Diego Harbor PD (1) #6196
04/23 - Hemet PD (2) #6038
04/26 - Riverside SO (4) #5863
04/26 - Riverside District Attorney (24) #3425
04/30 - Murrieta PD (12) #5196
04/30 - Escondido PD (18) #4381
05/09 - Chula Vista PD (7) #5557
05/15 - Riverside SO (5) #5821
05/18 - Riverside SO (4) #5898
05/18 - Riverside SO (4) #5878
05/19 - Hemet PD (17) #4343
05/19 - Riverside SO (7) #5621
05/19 - Riverside SO (6) #5846
05/19 - Riverside SO (7) #5615
05/24 - Riverside SO (2) #6087
05/25 - Riverside SO (12) #5156
05/25 - Riverside SO (13) #5011
05/25 - Riverside SO (2) #5946
06/08 - San Diego District Attorney (19) #4239
06/08 - San Diego District Attorney (21) #3851
06/08 - San Diego District Attorney (18) #4412
06/08 - San Diego District Attorney (24) #3405
06/13 - Riverside SO (9) #5424
06/16 - Riverside SO (13) #5004
06/21 - Riverside SO (3) #5917
06/23 - Anchorage PD, Alaska (12) #5172
06/23 - Anchorage PD, Alaska (6) #5730
07/06 - Riverside DA (21) #3682
07/07 - NCIS (3) #5955
07/07 - King County SO, Washington (16) #4789
07/14 - Ontario PD (2) #6077
07/20 - Chula Vista PD (8) #5504
07/20 - Chula Vista PD (3) #6129
07/23 - Napa Valley PD (2) #6011
07/28 - Aurora PD, Colorado (11) #5271
08/12 - Riverside SO (10) #5331
08/22 - Carlsbad PD (5) #5802
08/25 - Riverside SO (6) #5701
09/04 - Riverside SO (3) #5938
09/10 - Hemet PD (15) #4895
09/15 - Banning PD (5) #5791
09/18 - Anaheim PD (5) #5832
09/20 - Hemet PD (3) #5933
09/28 - Burbank PD (6) #5768
10/12 - Riverside SO (6) #5719
10/12 - Murrieta PD (5) #5843
10/16 - Murrieta PD (6) #5709
10/18 - San Diego SO (5) #5816
10/20 - Carlsbad PD (5) #5800
10/25 - Riverside County District Attorney (17) #4503
10/25 - Riverside County District Attorney (21) #3738
10/26 - San Diego SO (6) #5760
10/30 - Murrieta PD (15) #4818
11/02 - Southington PD, Connecticut (12) #5128
11/24 - United States Secret Service (9) #5389
11/26 - Escondido PD (12) #5198
12/01 - Riverside SO (1) #6155
12/07 - San Diego SO (13) #4905
12/19 - Hemet PD (10) #5335
2006 Total: 79 officers totaling 736 years of experience (9.3 years of experience per officer)
During 2006, one SDPD officer left for another agency every 4.6 days
01/02 - San Diego State University PD (18) #4449
01/11 - Chula Vista PD (6) #5785
01/19 - Monterey PD (3) #6089
02/09 - San Diego SO (28) #2598
02/15 - San Diego SO (13) #5167
02/15 - University of California at San Diego PD (2) #6106
02/21 - San Diego District Attorney (10) #5374
02/21 - San Diego District Attorney (22) #3785
02/22 - San Diego District Attorney (14) #4943
02/23 - San Diego District Attorney (21) #3912
02/23 - Anaheim PD (6) #5832
02/28 - San Diego District Attorney (19) #4309
02/28 - San Diego District Attorney (21) #4188
03/01 - San Diego District Attorney (11) #5347
03/01 - San Diego District Attorney (13) #5191
03/02 - San Diego SO (16) #4902
03/05 - El Cajon PD (1) #6255
03/07 - La Mesa PD (2) #6181
03/13 - San Diego District Attorney (30) #2304
03/21 - Coronado PD (32) #2113
03/24 - Santa Ana PD (4) #5959
03/29 - San Diego Community College PD (13) #5087
04/11 - Riverside County District Attorney (10) #5420
04/12 - San Diego SO (4) #5914
04/12 - San Diego City Schools PD (9) #5493
04/14 - Department of Justice (BNE) (14) #5015
04/24 - Department of Justice (25) #3265
04/27 - University California San Diego PD (4) #5913
05/08 - San Diego District Attorney (16) #4810
05/08 - San Diego District Attorney (16) #4869
05/08 - San Diego District Attorney (12) #5272
05/10 - San Diego District Attorney (4) #5966
05/12 - UCSD PD (18) #4602
05/28 - Murietta PD (8) #5620
05/28 - San Diego District Attorney (28) #2735
06/08 - Escondido PD (10) #5396
07/05 - San Diego SO (18) #4500
07/06 - Oceanside PD (2) #6140
07/15 - Visalia PD (2) #6159
07/20 - Department of Justice (7) #5666
07/20 - Department of Justice (12) #5282
07/20 - Department of Justice (12) #5212
07/26 - Carsbad PD (8) #5614
08/19 - El Cajon PD (1) #6212
09/01 - El Cajon PD (1) #6257
09/13 - San Diego SO (13) #5194
09/13 - San Diego SO (3) #6075
10/11 - San Diego SO (8) #5613
11/09 - Murrieta PD (2) #6163
12/14 - Palomar College PD (8) #5597
2007 Total: 50 officers totaling 580 years of experience (11.6 years of experience per officer)
During 2007, one SDPD officer left for another agency every 7.3 days
Note: A small number of officers have been granted a leave of absence and they officially will not be considered a loss until they actually resign or their leave grant has expired. In some other cases, the officers may be burning off accumulated vacation time and it might be several weeks before they are officially off the roster. This website counts them as a loss as soon as we have a separation date. Retirees are not listed under resignations and are shown under the retired category which is not always current since some retiree's effective date of separation might be several months in the future. In some cases more senior officers are electing to retire then go to another agency. In these instances, the officer is only considered as a retirement and not resigning to go to another agency. Due to these circumstances, retirement totals may not be accurate until the end of the fiscal year.
01/11 - University of Calfornia San Diego PD (21) #4130
01/26 - California Highway Patrol (1) #6463
01/31 - San Diego SO (6) #5839
02/06 - Hemet PD (2) #6203
02/08 - Rosenberg PD, Oregon (2) #6168
02/21 - Department of Justice (18) #4627
03/17 - Department of Justice (10) #5446
03/19 - Murrieta PD (3) #5992
04/04 - Mesa PD, Arizona (4) #6021
04/10 - San Diego District Attorney (20) #4398
04/29 - Stockton PD (1) #6464
2008 Total: 11 officers totaling 88 years of experience 8.0 years of experience per officer)
Although we are stressing the loss of sworn personnel, we currently have 71 vacant budgeted civilian positions as of June 6th.
San Diego District Attorney - 32
Riverside SO - 27
Murietta PD - 20
San Diego SO - 12
Carlsbad PD - 10
Chula Vista PD - 9
Hemet PD - 10
Department of Justice - 9
FBI - 6
El Cajon PD - 6
Escondido PD - 4
San Diego City Schools PD - 4
The following are projected losses based upon Officers' "DROP dead" dates (date when their contract expires):
Note: FY is Fiscal Year (July 1st to June 30th); FYTD is Fiscal Year To Date
FY2005: 41
FY2006: 36
FY2007: 39
FY2008: 47 [6 remaining]
FY2009: 42
FY2010: 71
Total: 276
FY2001: 65 departed (11 retired, 16 medical, 29 other, 9 other agencies), 113 hired - net gain of 48
FY2002: 81 departed (38 retired, 12 medical, 16 other, 15 other agencies), 68 hired - net loss of 13
FY2003: 83 departed (43 retired, 3 medical, 24 other, 13 other agencies), 50 hired - net loss of 33
FY2004: 101 departed (59 retired, 5 medical, 23 other, 14 other agencies), 22 hired - net loss of 79
FY2005: 124 departed (64 retired, 7 medical, 31 other, 22 other agencies), 132 hired - net gain of 8
FY2006: 212 departed (50 retired, 35 other, 74 other agencies, 1 killed), 98 hired - net loss of 114
FY2007: 174 departed (68 other agencies), 78 hired - net loss of 96
FYTD2008: 116 departed (25 other agencies)
A total of 957 officers have left SDPD for all reasons since July 1, 2000 (240 to other agencies).
Note: Although the academy may have started with a larger number, these numbers reflect the actual number remaining in training (academy or field training)
66th Academy (graduated 4/14/06) - 28 Recruits
67th Academy (graduated 7/14/06) - 17 Recruits
68th Academy (graduated 10/13/06) - 17 Recruits
69th Academy (graduated 1/17/07) - 29 Recruits
70th Academy (graduated 4/19/07) - 15 Recruits
71st Academy (graduated 7/13/07) - 34 Recruits
72nd Academy (graduated 10/11/07 - 28 Recruits
73rd Academy (started 7/23/07 - 30 Recruits, graduated 1/7/08, field training completes 5/2/08)
74th Academy (started 10/22/07 - 45 Recruits, graduates 4/10/08, field training completes 8/8/08)
75th Academy (started 1/22/08 - 52 Recruits, graduates 7/7/08, field training completes 10/21/08)
76th Academy (starts 4/21/08 - 48 Recruits, graduates 10/1/08, field training completes 1/31/09)
Total hired (remaining - some have resigned during academy or field training, some have demoted): 343
We do not have the exact number, but at least a dozen of these recruits have resigned, gone to other agencies, demoted, or were terminated. Look at the six thousand or higher ID numbers above.
Salary/Benefit Matrix (Updated 11/3/07)
Current SDPD Salary Table as of 4/30/05
PolicePay.net Salary Survey
If you are interested in other agencies in other states or other parts of California, click on the link below (This site now requires you to register and there are time restrictions to access data for the 200 largest cities):
TheBlueLine.com Police Compensation Survey
Listed below is a website that ranks the top 200 law enforcement agencies in its Police Officer Compensation Survey. The survey is from December of 2004, so it is rather old. San Diego ranks 176th out of 200. The index is based on a formula that combines pay with time off, over a 30-year period, and then is adjusted by the local cost of living. Our salary and benefits were essentially frozen on December 18, 2004, and this would reflect a snapshot of how SDPD stood in comparison with 200 other agencies in 2004.
Salary.com Salary Data (Updated April 6, 2008)
The base pay median expected annual salary for a typical police patrol officer in San Diego, California is $50,979 according to HR data as of April, 2008.
San Diego law enforcement officer's average salary
The median expected total annual compensation (base, bonusus, and benefits) for a typical police patrol officer in San Diego, California is $72,990 as of April, 2008.
San Diego law enforcement officer's total expected compensation
The expected bi-weekly take home pay for a typical police patrol officer in San Diego, California is $1,479.12 as of April, 2008.
San Diego law enforcement officer's take home pay
The base pay median expected annual salary for a typical police sergeant in San Diego, California is $65,071 according to HR data as of April, 2008.
San Diego law enforcement sergeant's average salary
The median expected total annual compensation (base, bonusus, and benefits) for a typical police sergeant in San Diego, California is $91,695 as of April, 2008.
San Diego law enforcement sergeant's total expected compensation
The expected bi-weekly take home pay for a typical police sergeant in San Diego, California is $1,844.17 as of April, 2008
San Diego law enforcement sergeant's take home pay
The file below is the 2006 Police Officer Compensation Survey of the top 200 law enforcement agencies. This is from January of 2006 and would not reflect subsequent raises. This is an indexed survey from policepay.com. It does not include non-economic benefits. You should review the first listed file first as this gives an explanation of the indexing criterion. The survey provides two ratings, one for cost of living adjustments (COLA) and one without. Under this January, 2006, COLA index survey, SDPD is ranked 188th. The December, 2004, survey shown above, SDPD was ranked 176th. That is a loss of 12 steps in 13 months! One a month. The files are Adobe Acrobat so you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these files. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, the third link will take you to Adobe where you can download Adobe Acrobat Reader
The City of San Diego hired an independent firm, Buck Consultants to conduct a salary survey of police agencies revealed that San Diego Police Officer pay and benefits were ranked at the bottom in their take-home pay compensation. Agencies where our officers are going to when they resigned are compared with SDPD.
The first link is a copy of the Mayor's press release. The second link is a copy of Buck Consultant's report.
Mayor's Press Release
Buck Consultant's SDPD Police Salary Survey
NEW
Find San Diego PD's monthly salary in this table of 162 California agencies now hiring
I was updating the law enforcement links to another website that I maintain and I found a total of 643 websites for California law enforcement agencies. Click here to visit this list of California law enforcement agencies. But before you do, I became curious as to how many of these listed websites are actually recruiting police officers at the present time. I visited all 643 websites and found that 162 (25%) of these agencies are hiring now, as of April 1, 2007. I was also curious as to the monthy salary of these 162 agencies and started compiling each agency's salary.
To your left, is a table listing the top monthly salaries of all 162 agencies who are currently hiring. Clicking on a monthly salary will take you to the website of the agency offering the salary. See if you can find the correct monthly salary for the San Diego Police Department. In your hunt you will find what other agencies are paying, which I am certain will surprise you.
All the agencies listed the range of their salaries either on their agency website or on the website of their human resource unit for their governmental agency. These listed figures have to be accurate as they are advertising for recruitment purposes so these are their "official" salaries. I used the highest limit of the salaries listed, as each agency would want to show their best to potential candidates. Most agencies had their recruiting brochure available so this was relatively easy to obtain the official information on salaries and benefits. Some agencies do have some other additives and incentives but I just went by their top salary listing.
Now consider this, it took me one weekend to gather all the salaries and benefits offered by 162 California law enforcement agencies. These are the official offerings of these 162 agencies. The City of San Diego hired Buck Consultants of San Francisco to come up with a salary survey of just 19 agencies which took three months and cost $29,000! That's almost $10,000 a month or over $1,500 per agency. All this official information is public and available to anyone.
I or anybody with internet access could have gathered the information for these 162 agencies in two days. I would have done it for free for the city. It took me just one weekend to gather all the salaries and benefits and I may post these at a later date. I suppose I could get $240,000 from the city for the information on the 162 agencies I compiled so I might hold out. Maybe this information will be of benefit in the near furture. If and when I should show the salaries and benefits of these 162 agencies, I will probably list a direct link to their official hiring announcement for employment.
Watch out for each other and be safe........
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