Iowa's Police Departments, Volume 1 - Their Manpower, Budgets, Salaries and Benefits

• NCJ Number: 88880
• Author(s): M L Cohan
• Date Published: 1981
• Length: 78 pages
• Grant Number(s): 80-BJ-CX-0021; 81-BJ-CX-0009
• Sponsoring Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ); US Dept of Justice NIJ Pub
• Corporate Author: Iowa Office for Planning and Programming
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

These data tables show the personnel, budgets, salaries, and benefits of 190 municipal police departments in Iowa.

Abstract

Data came from a survey initially distributed in March 1981 to all agencies with full-time, paid police officers. The response rate was 100 percent for cities with 5,000 population or more, 71 percent for cities with 2,000 to 4,999 population, and 37 percent for cities of less than 2,000. The tables show the actual numbers of full-time officers by rank, the department budgets for fiscal year 1980, the authorized salaries of full-time officers, the numbers of full-time officers by salary range, earned leave and overtime compensation, other personnel benefits, and pensions, unions, and moonlighting policies. Data are arranged by municipality, in descending order by population. Appendixes provide the survey instrument, letters of endorsement from Iowa's police associations, and lists of survey participants and nonparticipants. For related volumes giving Iowa police statistics, see NCJ-88881-3.