FIELD OFFICERS:
WE HEAR YOU. WE'RE FIGHTING FOR YOU.

Deploying DPO IIs – who carry essential community caseloads – is the WRONG approach. It’s burning out the field and destabilizing the system.

You didn’t sign up to be deployed into crisis-driven juvenile halls.

You didn’t sign up to inherit the consequences of years of staffing failures.

You signed up to serve in the field – and that is where you belong.

We hear you. We stand with you.

And we are fighting every day to get you back to the field.

This is what experienced leadership looks like.

WE ARE WORKING AGGRESSIVELY TO END FIELD DEPLOYMENTS

Your frustration is the FIRST issue we raise with the department every single time we meet.

It’s unsustainable. It’s unsafe. And it is hurting our caseloads, our communities, and our morale.

This union has been pushing – relentlessly – for accelerated hiring and promotions to STOP the constant deployment cycle.

RTSB DPO Is: BETTER TRAINED, BETTER FIT

& NEEDED NOW

They know the youth.

They know the structure.

They know the interventions that work.

They should be promoted NOW.

We demand immediate changes to the deployment model.

This moment is not the time for on-the-job training.

This moment demands:

Our slate offers exactly that:

Accelerated hiring of DSOs/GSNs into DPO I

77 already promoted since January 25

43 more in progress right now

New promulgation list this week

Promotions of qualified RTSB DPO Is into SYTF roles

To stabilize staffing inside the halls and reduce forced deployments

Ending involuntary deployment of DPO IIs

By staffing halls with the right personnel

Compensation enhancements

To stabilize staffing inside the halls and reduce forced deployments

A deployment model based on smart staffing – not desperation