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Police chief reports 2024 training and crime trends, flags data limitations in case-management system
Summary
The Madison Police Department reported nearly 1,400 training hours in 2024, staffing and hiring plans, a drop in reported thefts, and data-coding issues in the department’s case-management system that complicate tracking overdoses and drug-related calls.
Madison Police Chief Scott Tucker presented a year-end report for 2024, outlining training totals, hiring plans, crime trends and ongoing work to improve the department’s case-management system.
"We did a total of almost 1,400 hours across the whole department in 2024, which is about 50 hours per officer on average," Chief Scott Tucker said, noting that about 30 of those hours per officer were conducted in-house and the department’s 2025 goal is to increase in-house training to about 40 hours per officer while sending each officer to at least one outside training.
Tucker described defensive-tactics training…
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