Lol, apparently writing up paper messages to hand to other desk jockeys to deliver in person.

PPD had 7,167 employees in Dec. 2020. Of those:

• 4,000 in field operations
• 1,000 in support services
• 1,050 in criminal investigations
• 450 in "homeland security/intelligence"
• 225 in professional standards
• 175 in forensics
• 150 in aviation

Within "field operations," the big chunks are ROC North (1,900) and ROC South (1,850). As an illustration, ROC South looks like this:

• 1,587 police officers
• 143 sergeants
• 46 lieutenants
• 33 corporals
• 12 captains
• 3 inspectors
• 1 chief inspector

Within Criminal Investigations division, there's a different breakdown:

• 537 detectives
• 322 police officers
• 96 sergeants
• 57 lieutenants
• 12 corporals
• 14 captains
• 6 inspectors
• 4 chief inspectors
• 1 staff inspector

It's very strange to me that middle and upper management in the criminal investigations unit are staffed at similar rates to patrol divisions with >2x the number of officers. Also, the number of budgeted detective positions decreased from 2020 to 2021.