Why should you be selected as the new CoD?:

Experience
The first time I held a Command role was back in 2016, where I was a Lieutenant in Patrol. Before this, I had quickly risen through the ranks and it only took me 2 months to get Lt. after applying for Senior Officer. I didn’t stay in Patrol for very long in 2016 and took a break from PERP for a while (Both Staff and PD).

A little while later, I returned and played actively as a criminal for a while before I rejoined the PD. Once again, I climbed through the ranks very quickly and started my role as Lieutenant of RTU in April of 2018, a position I stayed in for over a year. Within this time, I only took a total of 24 days off spread out over my time as Lieutenant. As Lt., I spent a lot of time In-Game and was without question one of, if not the most, active Command Member IG. Despite my good activity In-Game and staff rank, I created countless documents and put forward several ideas that helped develop the RTU division as a whole.

Later, after 14 months, a position for Major opened up. Despite the fact that I had only held Primary Command roles in the past and was still very fond of the RTU division, I wanted to challenge myself even more, so I applied for Major. I selected Head of Tactical Operations as my preference because I thought a change of pace would be a new challenge and lo and behold, I was accepted.

This was almost half a year ago and since then I have gained a lot of experience as Major and did a lot of work for my Line, which I will elaborate on in the next question. During that time, I worked closely with my teams and still do.

Activity

As Lieutenant
For my entire time as Command and Major, I was probably the most active Command Member In-Game and to this day I am the most active member of SMT In-Game as well. In my 14 months of being Lieutenant, I spent 517.46 hours on the server, averaging at around 40 hours every month whilst I also ran countless RTU stages and did a lot of document work. I rarely ever missed an RTU Stage in that time.

As Major
Once I got Major and Admin in the same month nearly 6 months ago, my workload increased severely, yet I was still able to maintain high In-Game activity. Since becoming Major, I have spent 150.66 hours as a cop on the server, averaging at roughly 25 hours per month.


Ideas
I have some ideas for the department that I will elaborate on in the last question regarding transparency, new players, returning employees and discussions as well as comprehensive lists of people that are denied a promotion during meetings.



What experience do you hold which may benefit you in this role:


As a Lieutenant
I worked as a Patrol Lt. in 2016 and returned to command again in 2018 as Lt. of RTU. During that time, I spent a lot of time working on documents and putting forward lots of ideas to help improve the division. This includes, but is not limited to:
Reworking applications with Tom
Changing policies
Creating training resources
Running stages
Implementing the retraining scheme in conjunction with PSD

As a Major
Later, I was promoted to Major and now hold the title of Head of Tactical Operations. Since then, I have worked on quite a few things with my teams. Most notably, I worked on the following:

Monthly TFU recruitment

One of the first things I implemented was monthly TFU recruitment. This worked exceptionally well for several months as training was planned in advance and TFTO activity was at its peak. When I applied for TFU years ago, I was a Corporal. I ended up completing the process as a Lieutenant. It took ages for apps to be done. Under the monthly recruitment, there were only 1 week gaps per stage and TFU recruitment was faster than it has ever been in the department’s history.

Reworking policies

We changed a lot of internal policies to help encourage returning PLPD employees rejoin TFU by changing the way reinstatements worked. This was a very welcome change to a lot of people that had previously held the rank and were able to be reinstated

Retraining

Inspired by the retraining scheme Tom and I introduced into RTU, we coordinated a similar scheme with PSD to have some complaints referred to TFU for mandatory retraining.

TFU was at an all time high, especially in terms of activity. I believe I played a large role in making that happen.

Dispatch underwent changes too. A new command member was chosen to replace the old ones and development was pushed for self-assigning units and adding unit radio. Since then, we have begun work on resources and the handbook.

I also briefly took over as acting Head of General Operations, giving me even more versatile Command experience.

To this day, I am still one of the most active members of the Complaint Committee as well.

What changes do you believe you can bring to the department?:

Transparency
I am concerned about the department’s reputation as a whole and would like to take steps to improve this. I believe we can be more transparent about decisions we are making or are planning to make and comment on public issues through statements or TS discussions. A few months ago when a blogpost was created, I believe a statement would’ve been helpful and