Washington Magazine

The risk versus benefit offset can make it challenging for cities to entice police officers to apply or stick around longer, especially when the position is becoming increasingly dangerous across the country.

For Luke Guthrie, the Co-Founder, and President of Illuno, Inc, a Dallas-based law enforcement technology company, backed by Mark Cuban Companies (MCC), said, “Let’s improve and enhance the programs that are already in place today with creative technology”.

Guthrie said, “Moonlighting police officers may be the key to many global problems we are seeing”. Moonlighting is when an officer is hired privately by a citizen or business for security at their establishment or traffic control around a job site.

The problem is that most police departments lack the resources and systems to effectively manage these “Extra-Duty Jobs”, so officers adapt and freelance on their own and are often untracked and unsupervised. Most jobs are not shared evenly across the department. Technology just might be the solution that could solve many of the obstacles cities face in today’s tumultuous times.

Along Comes A Marketplace

Illuno is not a staffing company. Illuno is a cloud-based marketplace, like most modern platforms, such as Uber, Rover, and Airbnb. Both users: public and police officers operate their profiles digitally through a smartphone or computer. Everything happens on the platform, from job approvals to hiring the officer, to reporting, and even payment.

Officers can now have access to ALL the jobs in the city and make the career a little more worth the risk. Cities can collect data on how much Moonlighting is being worked annually and market a more lucrative occupation to the younger generation thinking about becoming a police officer but don’t think the pay is worth the squeeze. Guthrie says, “officers can earn up to 75% more of their starting salary depending on how many Moonlighting hours their internal policy allows”. Furthermore, when the city is overseeing these activities, they can recover assets used during the event. For example, a patrol car fee, an equipment fee, admin fee, or a city fee, anything the city would like to recover.

With Illuno, officers can now be hired on the platform to teach a firearms qualification class; a K9 class for dog handlers in the park; or to mentor at-risk kids after school; or an insurance company needing accident reconstruction for a claim. Whatever skills officers have, can now be a source of additional income. This is an extension to the conceptual model “shop with a cop” and “coffee with a cop”, which has proven to be very successful around the nation by showing police in a humanizing light.

More Than Just Business

Guthrie said, “Our why is simple, help cities build back the bridge of trust between police and the communities they serve through utilizing new technology”. Illuno’s technology platform puts dollars back into city budgets so our elected officials can start to reallocate funds to address crime, mental health, and homelessness, so we will have safer streets for generations to come.

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