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Experience

More than 350 local government projects, in every region of the country.

A selection from the record. Police departments and sheriff’s offices, fire and rescue services, 911 centers, emergency operations centers, municipal courts, campus police, and county justice complexes.

350+Completed local government projects
120Days to a delivered single-agency assessment
18+Years in continuous practice
22States with completed engagements

Coverage

Where the work has been.

Highlighted states are where CPS has completed work. There are twenty-two of them, reaching from Washington and Montana to Massachusetts, Texas, and Florida. The full record runs to more than 350 engagements across those states; the index below is a selection from it.

Map of the continental United States with states highlighted where representative engagements have been completed

Project profiles

Selected engagements in detail

Each of these has its own page describing the engagement, the approach taken, and what was delivered.

Sandy Springs, Georgia

Sandy Springs Police & Municipal Court Study

CPS assessed current and future space needs for Sandy Springs’ police department and municipal court, supporting consolidation of dispersed leased functions into a single purpose-designed public safety and court facility.

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Swatara Township, Pennsylvania

Swatara Township Municipal Campus Study

CPS conducted a township-wide space needs study covering police, fire, fire administration, EOC and EMA, highway, and administration functions, and was subsequently engaged to lead a community outreach effort supporting the project.

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Flagler County, Florida

Flagler County Sheriff’s Operations & Administration Center

CPS delivered a spatial needs assessment for a new Flagler County Sheriff’s Office facility, programming the consolidation of four operations onto a single county-owned Palm Coast site with projections to 2040 and costed design options.

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Plano, Texas

Plano Police Staffing Study

CPS produced a workload-based staffing roadmap for the Plano Police Department through 2045, projecting division-level growth from 675 to 772 personnel against a city population forecast of 326,000.

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Cape Coral, Florida

Cape Coral Regional Public Safety Training Complex

CPS and Architects Design Group programmed a 40-acre public safety training campus for Cape Coral, covering educational facilities, student housing, and live-time training in vehicles, weapons, search and rescue, and water environments.

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Quincy, Massachusetts

Quincy Fire Department Spatial Needs Assessment

CPS completed a spatial needs assessment of two Quincy fire stations in service over 80 years, analyzing operational workflow, staffing deployment, apparatus configuration, and shift-model impacts, and producing $22.4 million in facility recommendations.

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Byram, Mississippi

Byram Public Safety Facility Study

CPS reviewed and evaluated several property parcels of varying sizes in and around Byram for use as a public safety facility, including court services and potential co-location of additional city departments.

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Polson, Montana

Polson Police, Fire & Municipal Court Study

CPS assessed space needs for Polson’s combined police, fire, and municipal court facility, analyzing how co-located services, a repurposed structure, and seasonal population surges shape facility and staffing requirements.

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Buffalo, New York

University at Buffalo Police Facility Study

CPS and Architects Design Group assessed the University at Buffalo’s existing police facility, quantified current and future needs, and evaluated multiple campus sites and structures as candidates for a new facility.

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Provincetown, Massachusetts

Provincetown Police Facility Study

CPS provided Provincetown with a police space needs study and evaluated several candidate sites, addressing a department serving a town whose population swells roughly seventeenfold during the tourist season.

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Terre Haute, Indiana

Terre Haute Police Facility Study

CPS conducted a space needs study for a new Terre Haute police facility and evaluated candidate sites around the city, addressing a department operating from three joined downtown buildings.

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Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington Emergency Operations Center

CPS assessed Wilmington’s emergency operations center and administrative offices and recommended a purpose-built stand-alone connected facility, elevated against river flooding and supported by new emergency power generation.

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Full index

Project index

Filter by service line. Underlined entries link to a full project profile. Client names appear with permission and a number of engagements are not listed; detailed references, including client contacts, are provided on request as part of a proposal.

EngagementJurisdictionDiscipline
Police Staffing StudyCharleston, West VirginiaPolice · Staffing
Police Staffing StudyPlano, TexasPolice · Staffing
Comprehensive Public Safety AssessmentLaredo, TexasPolice, Fire · Staffing & Compensation
Police Staffing StudyPalm Bay, FloridaPolice · Staffing
Police Staffing StudySt. Cloud, FloridaPolice · Staffing
Police Staffing StudyApopka, FloridaPolice · Staffing
Police, Fire & Ocean Rescue Staffing StudyDeerfield Beach, FloridaMulti-agency · Staffing
Staffing StudySunny Isles Beach, FloridaPolice · Staffing
Staffing & Space Needs StudyColumbus County, North CarolinaSheriff · Staffing & Facilities
Police & Municipal Court Space Needs StudySandy Springs, GeorgiaPolice, Courts · Facilities
Municipal Campus Space Needs StudySwatara Township, PennsylvaniaMulti-agency · Facilities
Police, Communications & Municipal Court Space Needs StudyByram, MississippiPolice, 911, Courts · Facilities
Law & Justice Center Space Needs StudyColumbia County, WashingtonJustice · Facilities
Police & Court Feasibility StudyMableton, GeorgiaPolice, Courts · Feasibility
Fire Station Space Needs StudyBroadview Heights, OhioFire · Facilities
Police Space Needs Study & Cost EstimateLady Lake, FloridaPolice · Facilities
Police Space Needs StudyGreen Bay, WisconsinPolice · Facilities
Police & Fire Space Needs StudiesWoonsocket, Rhode IslandPolice, Fire, 911 · Facilities
Owner’s Representative ServicesWoonsocket, Rhode IslandMulti-agency · Owner’s Rep
Fire Station Space Needs StudyQuincy, MassachusettsFire · Facilities
Sheriff’s Office Space Needs StudyFlagler County, FloridaSheriff · Facilities
Sheriff’s Office Space Needs Study & Master PlanSt. Johns County, FloridaSheriff · Facilities
EOC Space Needs StudySanta Rosa County, FloridaEmergency Management · Facilities
EOC Space Needs StudyLake County, MontanaEmergency Management · Facilities
EOC Space Needs StudyBillings, MontanaEmergency Management · Facilities
EOC Space Needs StudyBoone County, MissouriEmergency Management · Facilities
E911 Facility AssessmentLee County, Mississippi911 · Facilities
EOC & EMS Space Needs StudyRichland County, South CarolinaEmergency Management · Facilities
911 & EOC Space Needs StudyLincoln County, Missouri911, Emergency Management · Facilities
911 & EOC Space Needs StudySheridan County, Montana911, Emergency Management · Facilities
Police, Fire & Municipal Court Space Needs StudyPolson, MontanaMulti-agency · Facilities
Police & Communications Space Needs StudyCovington, TennesseePolice, 911 · Facilities
Police, Communications & Municipal Court Space Needs StudyGloucester Township, New JerseyPolice, 911, Courts · Facilities
Police Space Needs StudyUniversity at Buffalo, New YorkCampus Police · Facilities
Space Needs StudyFlorida Polytechnic University, FloridaCampus Police · Facilities
Police & Communications Space Needs StudyWest Melbourne, FloridaPolice, 911 · Facilities
Police Space Needs StudyMiami Shores, FloridaPolice · Facilities
Fire District Space Needs StudyGreer, South CarolinaFire · Facilities
Police, Municipal Court & Communications Space Needs StudyRiver Vale, New JerseyMulti-agency · Facilities
Police Space Needs StudyPalmyra, MissouriPolice · Facilities
Police Space Needs StudyColumbia, MissouriPolice · Facilities
Police & Municipal Court Space Needs StudyTerre Haute, IndianaPolice, Courts · Facilities
Police Space Needs StudyColumbia, South CarolinaPolice · Facilities
Police & Communications Space Needs StudyProvincetown, MassachusettsPolice, 911 · Facilities
Police Space Needs StudyBrunswick, GeorgiaPolice · Facilities
Sheriff’s Office Space Needs StudyHopkins County, KentuckySheriff · Facilities
Space Needs StudyNacogdoches, TexasPolice · Facilities
Space Needs StudyEvangeline Parish, LouisianaMulti-agency · Facilities
Public Safety Training Complex Space Needs StudyCape Coral, FloridaRegional Training · Facilities
Public Safety Training Facility Needs AssessmentCape Coral, FloridaRegional Training · Facilities
Police Department Bond ReferendumCape Coral, FloridaPolice · Referendum
Roadway Bond ReferendumOsceola County, FloridaPublic Works · Referendum
Ordinance ReferendumsKissimmee, FloridaMunicipal · Referendum
AFG Grant ServicesFennimore, WisconsinFire · Grants
Technology Needs Assessment & Hiring and Retention PlanningPompano Beach, FloridaPolice · Technology & Workforce

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