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Veil Service Commission approves new civilian public-safety supervisory roles
Summary
The commission approved multiple new civilian positions — including supervisors for crime analysis and digital forensics, an upgraded lead police services generalist role with interpreter certification, and a legal projects coordinator — to strengthen Davenport’s data, forensics, and records capacity.
The Veil Service Commission voted to approve a package of new civilian positions aimed at expanding the city’s data and technical capacity in public safety, including a Crime Analysis Unit supervisor and a Digital Forensics Unit supervisor.
Staff described the Crime Analysis Unit supervisor as a promotional civilian position that “provides strategic oversight of the unit, manages crime analysts, and ensures the effective use of data driven policing strategies.” Police Chief Jeff Laidle said the supervisor will develop dashboards and training that support real-time, data-driven operations, noting, “This person is the one that develops our dashboards … that actually help us with our data driven real…
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