Alternate Title
Impact of shift length
The impact of shift length in policing on performance, health, quality of life, sleep, flatigue, and extra-duty employment : executive summary.
Note
"A final report submitted to the: National Institute of Justice ... with Anneke Heitmann, Jon Shane, Christopher Ortiz, Eliab Tarkghen."--Title page.
"December 12, 2011"
Summary
"Most law enforcement agencies have traditionally deployed their patrol officers based on a 40-hour workweek in which personnel work five consecutive, 8-hour shifts, followed by two days off. In recent years, however, an increasing number of agencies have moved to some variant of a compressed workweek (CWW) schedule in which officers work four 10-hour shifts per week or three 12-hour shifts (plus a time adjustment to make up the remaining 4 hours of the standard 40-hour workweek). While this trend towards CWWs has been moving apace, there have been few, if any, rigorous scientific studies examining the advantages and disadvantages associated with these work schedules for officers and their agencies. In this report, we present data on the prevalence of CWWs in American law enforcement in recent years and provide results from the first known comprehensive randomized experiment exploring the effects of shift length (8- vs. 10- vs. 12-hours) on work performance, safety, health, quality of life, sleep, fatigue, off-duty employment, and overtime usage among police officers."--Abstract.