Carroll Buracker & Associates, Inc. (CBI) is a corporation licensed in the State of Virginia. The firm, organized in 1985, specializes in efficiency and management studies of police departments, sheriffs' departments, fire departments, emergency medical services departments, public safety communications/dispatch and security consulting services for municipal, state, private sector and federal agencies. In addition, hospitals, corporations, nonprofit foundations and downtown improvement districts have retained the firm to evaluate public safety and security services.

The corporation has been retained for public safety consultant services by more than 160 local and state governments and the federal government. Several municipal governments in various regions include Seattle, Tacoma, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Fremont, San Francisco, Oakland, Oxnard, Chandler, Apache Junction, Maricopa, El Mirage, Gillette, Billings, Fort Collins, Olathe, Lawton, University Park, Port Arthur, St. Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago, Kalamazoo, Cleveland, Allentown, Canandaigua, Rye Brook, Greenwich, Stamford, Hartford, Waterbury, Boston, Springfield (MA), Princeton, Bergen County (NJ), Perth Amboy, Annapolis, Queen Anne's County (MD), Hampton, Chesterfield County (VA), Virginia Beach, Sunny Isles Beach, Parkland and Fort Lauderdale.

The law enforcement staff of Carroll Buracker & Associates, Inc. includes former police chiefs, computer systems managers, planners and fiscal officers. The fire/EMS staff includes former paid and volunteer fire chiefs, emergency medical services (EMS) chiefs, private ambulance directors and fire/EMS training directors. The security staff includes former security directors of major corporations.

The firm was selected by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) for five major projects: 1) to conduct the first and only study of policing in public housing by city police and public housing police in seven major cities; 2) to develop a "Model Contract" with performance measurements for use in allocating drug elimination funds and assuring accountability; 3) to upgrade/accredit 10 public housing police departments in major cities; 4) to develop a police/security system for the Vidor, Texas, public housing development after minorities were forced out of the development by an extremist group; and, 5) to upgrade police/security in several East Texas public housing developments to comply with the findings in a federal suit.

The firm has evaluated public safety communications and dispatch systems in every region of the U.S. and for communities of all sizes. For example, the City of Chicago selected CBI to conduct a "Close-Out Study" of its new $215 million emergency dispatch systems, facilities and infrastructure. The City of Los Angeles selected CBI to redo an emergency dispatch system study that had been conducted for the Los Angeles Fire Department by another consulting firm. The Township of Princeton, New Jersey, selected CBI for a dispatch consolidation study.

CBI developed a "Service Standard Index," which has been implemented by cities and police departments to establish suitable benchmarks in determining staffing in patrol and criminal investigations.

Two CBI staff members have managed public safety communications and dispatch centers as practitioners in progressive counties. Five CBI staff members have participated as police chiefs/fire chiefs in managing responses to regional disasters.

CBI has been retained to develop standalone Emergency Preparedness Plans, which include Homeland Security response criteria; moreover, emergency preparedness is addressed in public safety plans for seamless services by police and fire/EMS departments, especially the interoperability issues in emergency communications.

Carroll Buracker served as the project manager and executive producer for the first nationwide community policing training video, "Beyond the Badge." This video, produced for a federal agency, highlights "best practices" and was distributed in every region of the nation. Universities, colleges, police academies and federal law enforcement academies are utilizing this video as part of training/education in contemporary policing.

Forty-two municipal governments, three state governments and a federal agency have retained the corporation for multiple projects.

Six members of the corporation have worked as a "team" on public safety studies for 10 years.