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Abbey Group Consultants
is a professional consulting firm specializing in public
safety policies, technology and planning. Over the past nine years, the
firm has provided consulting services to law enforcement, fire service
and emergency medical providers, as well as private industry companies
concerned with public safety issues. Abbey Group Consultants
is based in Incline Village, Nevada, with offices in Nevada City CA,
Ocala FL, Houston TX, and a technology development office in Silicon Valley.
Before it became vogue in recent years the firm adopted a "Virtual
Company" approach with a core professional staff and additional staffing
from service-retired and currently employed public safety professionals.
Each Abbey Group partner and associate has specialized skills
within the public safety professions.
Abbey Group Consultants' engagements
have been international, including projects in Canada and Australia These
projects range from the smallest to the largest of public safety agencies.
This experience ranges from small local agencies to MetroDade, Houston
and Chicago Fire and Police Departments.
Abbey Group Consultants
is highly focused on specific services to the public safety industry.
This focus provides for optimum expertise in those specific areas. Abbey
Group Consultants has been public safety expert consultants for
Andersen Consulting (Arthur Andersen & Co S.C) for nine years, working
with Andersen Consulting and Arthur Andersen offices across the world.
Public safety leadership faces a formidable challenge
in delivering safety services in a period of rapid change. The enterprise
of public safety must adapt to a changing world, both in organizational
ethos and strategies. Abbey Group Consultants provides a
futures perspective in organizational design, agency finance, and development
of technologies and systems to support the departmental mission.
The Abbey Group Consultants team has approached
public safety technology from the unique perspective of forecasting future
functional needs of the public safety agencies, and subsequently identifying
technologies to support these functions. A functional perspective has led
to pioneering efforts in interactive field data networks, technologies
to support field personnel and technologies to management critical resources.
Abbey Group Consultants
has
provided consulting assistance in all areas of public safety technologies,
including computer-aided-dispatch, innovative information system design, EIS, and field computing. This expertise and experience in real-world public
safety is highly complementary to the high technology providers who deliver
products and services to law enforcement
In the realm of the fire and emergency medical service,
Abbey Group Consultants has completed over
60 individual projects in fire/ EMS agencies. These projects mostly involved
in-depth analysis of the trends indicating growth in protection inventory
and service demand. The firm has provided specific recommendations for
facilities and apparatus to meet these demands. Along with unsurpassed
technology expertise, Abbey Group Consultants is recognized
as a leading firm in developing innovative financial solutions for fire
agencies.
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