QUESTION
What is the Smart Unit launched by the New York City Department of Correction?
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The Smart Unit, already established by the New York City Department of Correction, functions as a schedule management and redeployment team.
- The Smart Unit generates weekly schedules for facilities and balances squads.
- It analyzes staffing needs to ensure a balanced distribution of staff across all facilities, including challenging ones.
- The unit reviews and aims to reduce overtime, ensuring security measures are not compromised.
- Its roles include preventing unstaffed posts and unnecessary triple tours, maintaining overall staff support.
Sandy Nurse
3:45:05
You mentioned, can you talk say more about the smart unit that you said you were launching?
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie
3:45:11
It's actually in it's already been instituted and the the chief can actually talk a little bit more about the smart unit because that that unit is primarily responsible for deploying staff throughout the jails.
3:45:23
And so chief.
Sherrie Rembert
3:45:26
Thank you.
3:45:27
Thank you for the question.
3:45:28
The smart team is a schedule management and redeployment team.
3:45:33
And some of their functions are to monitor, to generate schedules on a weekly basis for the facility.
3:45:40
Balance squads, analyze staffing to ensure that we get a balance of staffing into the into the facility, challenging facility as well as all facilities.
3:45:50
Also the smart smart unit reviews, the overtime reduction to make sure that we eliminate over time in facilities where it needed without hampering our security parameters.
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Smart team looks at is to make sure we do not go into any type of unstaffed post, triple tours, sort of support team who takes care of all that.
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On hand.