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Public Safety Scheduling Software 

Manage complex shift schedules, automate overtime rules, track employee time, and improve staffing visibility while reducing administrative workload and compliance risk. 

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Trusted by 150,000+ Public Safety Professionals Nationwide

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Automate Public Safety Scheduling and Time Tracking 

PowerDMS Time is scheduling and workforce management software built specifically for public safety agencies.

It helps law enforcement, corrections, fire departments, and emergency communications centers manage employee schedules, overtime, leave requests, and time tracking from one secure cloud platform — automatically applying agency policies, union agreements, FLSA rules, minimum staffing requirements, and overtime eligibility to help managers make fair, compliant scheduling decisions.

With Time, agencies can automate complex scheduling rules, improve staffing visibility, reduce administrative work, and maintain compliance with labor policies.

Powerful Features Built for Public Safety 

Create recurring patrol rotations, fire schedules, dispatcher shifts, or correctional staffing plans using configurable scheduling rules. Publish schedules across departments while maintaining role based visibility and staffing requirements.

Get a real time view of the schedule for the day, week, or month and make edits from wherever you are. View off duty schedules with the PowerDetails integration.

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Build overtime lists based on agency rules, union agreements, FLSA requirements, employee availability, consecutive hours worked, and seniority to ensure fair and compliant shift assignments.

Streamline the entire process of open shifts due to minimum staffing or special events, and ensure sufficient 24/7 staffing with open shift updates for administrators and employees.

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Employees submit time off requests from wherever they are and receive real time updates. View real time balance projections that calculate future leave accrual trends automatically, blocking overdraft requests before supervisor sign-offs occur. 

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Employees can securely view schedules, request time off, swap shifts (if enabled), clock in and out, court appearances and sign up for available overtime using the web or mobile app. Email and mobile notifications are sent automatically for efficient communication throughout. 

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Supervisors review employee time, leave requests, overtime, and exceptions from a centralized dashboard with automated alerts to identify scheduling conflicts, overtime limits, and staffing gaps. 

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Once time is approved, PowerTime exports payroll ready data and provides reporting on schedules, overtime, leave balances, staffing, and labor costs to help agencies improve efficiency and compliance. 

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PowerTime logs an unedited, digital trail of all timesheet corrections, supervisor approvals, and manual overrides for continuous compliance audits. 

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Control who can view schedules, approve leave, assign overtime, or edit employee records based on department, division, or role.

Give administrators control over who can view schedules, approve leave, manage overtime, edit employee records, and view specialized charge code calculations or medical leave details.

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PowerDMS protects sensitive workforce data with role-based permissions and detailed audit logs, and hosts records on resilient cloud servers engineered to satisfy strict government information security policies. 

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"Officers don't have to call in to verify schedules, hearings, court dates, etc. — these are all available on their phone."

  Chief Zerbe, East Lampeter Township Police Department

“One thing I found exceptional about [PowerTime] was how quickly our agency adapted to it. The [PowerTime] team made sure the implementation process was simple and easy, even during initial setup at the very beginning.”

  Jessica Larmour, Operations Manager, SHASCOM-911

“One thing that I really love about PowerTime is that I can access it anywhere. Because our day doesn't end when we leave the office."

  Lt. Maurice (Moe) Duran, Upland Police Department, CA

“With PowerTime, it increases productivity for both me and the officers because it allows us all to have more time for other tasks."

  Lt. Anthony Blain, Grosse Pointe Park Public Safety, MI
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WHY POWERDMS?

Public Safety Scheduling Is More than a Calendar 

Physical master boards, manual shift grids, and generic commercial calendars create bottlenecks and compliance gaps inside first responder teams.

Whether it’s patrol, fire, EMS, corrections, or dispatch, public safety agencies have to manage a variety of challenges:

  • Managing complex shift rotations
  • Controlling overtime costs
  • Reducing scheduling conflicts
  • Simplifying leave management
  • Improving payroll accuracy
  • Complying with FLSA and union rules

PowerTime automates scheduling, leave management, time tracking, and payroll workflows to eliminate duplicate data entry and reduce time spent on manual administrative tasks — while maintaining accurate records with detailed audit logs, digital approvals, and automated policy enforcement to support labor compliance and reduce payroll errors. 

Traditional Approach vs. PowerDMS Time 

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Built for many industries 

Built specifically for public safety 

Basic shift scheduling 

Handles Complex rotating schedules 

Standard overtime 

FLSA and union overtime rules

Limited payroll support 

Public sector payroll integrations 

Basic permissions 

Role based security 

See PowerTime in Action  

Click through a short product tour to see how PowerTime works.  

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See How PowerTime Helps Agencies Like Yours  

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East Lampeter Township Police Department

East Lampeter Township PD utilized PowerTime to completely eliminate tedious spreadsheet scheduling and manual duplication. Transitioning to a mobile, cloud-based platform saved the department over 10 hours per week and boosted organizational scheduling visibility by 25%. 

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Upland Police Department

Upland PD reduced its intensive bi-weekly payroll processing time from up to four days down to just a few hours. By digitizing timesheets and schedules with PowerTime, the department successfully eliminated paper tracking errors and saved over 700 hours annually on operations. 

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Grosse Pointe Park Public Safety
Grosse Pointe Park Public Safety eliminated hand-punched paper records and physical approval slips to establish an automated, foolproof audit trail for time-off requests. Implementing PowerTime drastically reduced payroll processing errors and saved their staff more than 360 hours each year. 

Common Questions About PowerDMS Time 

PowerTime automatically projects future leave balances based on scheduled work hours, accrual rules, and approved time off. Supervisors can see whether employees will have enough leave available before approving requests, helping prevent staffing shortages and negative leave balances. 

PowerTime is designed for law enforcement agencies, corrections, fire departments, EMS organizations, emergency communications centers, and other public safety employers. It helps supervisors, HR teams, payroll administrators, and agency leaders simplify scheduling, manage overtime, track employee time, and maintain compliance. 

Unlike general workforce scheduling software, PowerTime is built specifically for public safety agencies. It supports complex shift rotations, FLSA overtime calculations, union rules, secure role-based permissions, mobile time tracking, and public sector payroll integrations that generic scheduling tools often lack. 

Implementation timelines vary based on your agency's size, workforce complexity, and integration requirements. PowerTime's implementation specialists guide agencies through configuration, historical data migration, testing, training, and deployment to help ensure a successful rollout. 

Yes. Employees can securely access PowerTime from a web browser or mobile device to clock in and out, submit time off requests, view schedules, track leave balances, review timesheets, and sign up for available overtime opportunities.

PowerTime protects sensitive workforce information with secure cloud hosting, role-based permissions, detailed audit logs, and security controls designed for public sector organizations. These safeguards help agencies protect employee data, maintain compliance, and support secure workforce operations.  

Yes. Administrators can configure role-based permissions to control who can view, edit, approve, or manage schedules, employee records, leave requests, and other workforce data. This helps protect sensitive information while ensuring employees only access the information they need. 

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Stop struggling with timesheets, whiteboards, and spreadsheets. 

Automate your overtime policy, empower your staff, and ensure compliance with the premier public safety scheduling engine built for public safety and government. 

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