James Davidson

Experience

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  Douglasville Police Dept

  Nov 1995 - Nov 1999

  Patrol Officer

  Promoted to officer in charge (Corporal)Field Training Officer

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  Douglasville Police Department

  Nov 1999 - now

  Manage a team consisting of:-Detectives Division-Special Operations Division-School Resource OfficersResponsible for manpower allocation, a $2.3 million budget, and the success of 33 employees including two lieutenants, three sergeants, property and persons crimes detectives, investigators assigned to a joint major case unit, undercover drug and vice investigators, crime scene investigators, officers assigned to a joint Interstate interdiction team, crime analysis, and school resource officers for middle and high schools. Show less Managed a team consisting of general investigators, crime scene unit, and property/evidence storage. Ensured that criminal cases were properly assigned and monitored by detective sergeants. Responsible for division budgeting, manpower allocation, and overall performance. Instituted case assignment system in which investigations were assigned according to solvability parameters, thereby decreasing by half the number of unsolvable cases assigned to detectives. This gave investigators the ability to increase their efforts on cases that had true potential to be solved. Show less

  • Deputy Chief

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Major

    Jan 2016 - Nov 2023

  • Captain of Investigations

    Jan 2010 - Jan 2016

  • SWAT Team member

    Jan 1997 - Jan 2014

  • Captain, Patrol Division

    Jan 2008 - Jan 2010

  • Lieutenant of Detectives

    Jan 2005 - Jan 2008

  • Detective

    Nov 1999 - Jan 2005