2025 Strategic Plan Overview
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The Calcasieu Parish Police Jury (CPPJ), composed of an elected body of 15 single-member Police Jury districts and a staff of over 700, stands at the seat of parish government in Calcasieu Parish. Since 2018, the CPPJ has developed parishwide strategic plans supported by a foundation of elected official, community, and employee input to outline a shared set of priorities with goals and key initiatives that reflect the parish’s most pressing needs and opportunities.
Heading into 2025, Calcasieu Parish is emerging from one of the most challenging and unprecedented periods in its history, including the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the devastating impacts of Hurricane Laura (August 2020), Hurricane Delta (October 2020), and Winter Storm Uri (February 2021), and a flash-flooding event (May 2021). In response, the CPPJ’s 2022-2024 strategic plan prioritized recovery efforts while focusing on essential community services and initiatives that met the needs of parish residents.
In 2024, the Police Jury began developing a new strategic plan as the parish, its residents, and its businesses began to turn the corner from recovery toward a vibrant, more positive future focused on resilience. This new plan builds on current foundations and introduces new strategic priorities, goals, and key initiatives to serve as the CPPJ’s roadmap for the next five years.
Like the plans that preceded it, this new plan was heavily informed by comprehensive public engagement, including more than 1,000 responses to a citizen survey, and comprehensive employee engagement with over 500 responses to an employee survey focused on measuring engagement, satisfaction, and performance across CPPJ departments.
It includes six key strategic priorities to guide CPPJ programs, services, investments, and operations for the next five years, each supported by specific goals and key initiatives aimed to help advance these six priorities forward. In turn, each CPPJ department is responsible for developing annual, 12-month action plans that align with these goals and key initiatives, with their progress closely monitored by the Parish Administration and the Police Jury.
As we look to the future, this strategic plan serves as a testament to Calcasieu Parish’s resilience in moving beyond disaster recovery and focusing on ways the parish and its citizens can create a brighter, more prosperous future for all who choose to call Southwest Louisiana home.
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Employee Engagement Survey
The CPPJ also conducted its annual employee engagement study – again, coordinated by a third-party consulting firm to ensure anonymity and objectivity – aimed at better understanding employee satisfaction and engagement within their respective departments and within CPPJ, as well as gathering employee input and feedback on strategic priorities, decision-making, and resource planning. Results from these surveys were used to inform one-on-one meetings with department leaders and the development of the new strategic priorities, goals, and key initiatives listed in this plan.
Police Jury Launches Citizen Survey
To help ensure the parish’s services and programs best meet the evolving needs of its residents, the CPPJ conducted a citizen survey utilizing an external consulting firm to ensure an anonymous and objective process. The survey gathered anonymous feedback on Calcasieu Parish’s services and was widely publicized through the CPPJ’s website, social media, a press release, media appearances, and word of mouth, encouraging all citizens to participate. In total, 1,396 citizens completed the survey, and the results were shared with Police Jurors and presented at a public meeting.
Department Leader Meetings and Retreat
To better understand the current state of the CPPJ and where it should focus moving forward, regular meetings were held with each department’s leadership team to discuss results from both the citizen engagement survey and employee engagement survey; progress on 2022-2024 strategic priorities, goals, and initiatives; and where the parish should focus moving forward. Department leaders also participated in a full-day planning retreat to align goals and key initiatives with the new broader strategic priority framework.
Police Juror Workshop & Retreat
Police Jurors were engaged in the strategic plan development process through a planning retreat that involved discussions around the current state of the parish, progress on previous strategic plan priorities, and alignment on strategic priorities, goals, and initiatives for the new plan.