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Elaine Nugent
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Director, Office of Research and Evaluation
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Prosecutors across the country are increasingly looking to APRI to help them assess workloads in their offices and better allocate limited resources. Now, APRI is taking its expertise across the border to Canada.
The Office of Research and Evaluation at APRI was recently awarded a new contract from the Ministry of Justice in British Columbia, Canada to conduct a comprehensive workload assessment and resource allocation of the Ministry’s Criminal Branch. The study will allow the OR&E to determine its transferability and reliability of its workload assessment methodology for projecting resource needs regardless of how the criminal justice system operates.
During the next nine months, the OR&E staff will work with the Crown Counsel staff to identify the various factors that have the greatest perceived impact on workload. This information will serve as the foundation for a comprehensive time study in which the impact of these factors will be measured quantitatively. The study will result in case weights (average case processing time) and workload measures (number of cases a single staff person can handle in a year) that account for circumstances that can affect the amount of time needed for various cases.
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