First Sign® Excellence Accelerator

Recognize the Officers Who Set the Standard

Enlisting the same research-based approach behind our early intervention work to identify, recognize, and grow your highest-performing officers

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Your Pathway to a Culture of Excellence

First Sign Excellence Accelerator gives agencies a research-based view of each officer’s real impact on the community they serve. It surfaces the officers who lead the way, helps supervisors recognize sustained high performance, and supports every officer’s growth. With First Sign Excellence Accelerator, agencies can:

  • Measure each officer’s real impact on the community they serve
  • Recognize and reward the officers who consistently excel
  • Develop every officer with growth-focused coaching

Excellence Measured Across Five Dimensions

Most agencies can’t see their best officers clearly. The data that would show who excels is scattered across systems and skewed toward what goes wrong. First Sign Excellence Accelerator brings it together and measures what goes right, evaluating each officer across five dimensions of high-performing policing: skilled action, sound judgment, teamwork, community engagement, and resolving situations safely.

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Our unique approach gives you complete visibility into the community impact of each officer, critical to evaluating performance in public service roles. That visibility serves as a powerful foundation to set a new standard for community engagement and impact for all officers.

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From Measurement to Recognition to Growth

Measure Excellence through Data Science


Measure Excellence through Data Science


Integrates data from multiple sources to measure the everyday excellence traditional metrics miss: skilled engagement, sound resolution of calls, and strong teamwork

Identify and Recognize Top Performers


Identify and Recognize Top Performers



Get an objective, research-based measure of each officer’s impact on the community they serve. Recognize and reward officers immediately, based on sustained performance.

Improve Performance through Coaching


Improve Performance through Coaching



Build customized development plans that grow new skills and support career advancement, so every officer has a path forward, not just the top performers.

The Research-Based Difference

First Sign Excellence Accelerator is built on a research-based model developed through Benchmark’s academic partnerships, so each officer’s excellence measure is consistent, evidence-based, and far less subjective than traditional evaluation. As the model learns from new data across agencies, it grows more precise over time, an advantage rooted in evidence, not just automation.

More First Sign Offerings, Built on the Outcome Standard

Our groundbreaking solutions are redefining what it means to have a successful policing career.

Early Intervention

First Sign® Early Intervention

Proactively identify and support officers at risk of an adverse event.

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Improve police wellness and safety

First Sign® Precision Wellness

Identify struggling officers and facilitate proactive, life-saving mental health support.

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Elevate officer performance

First Sign® Retention Monitor

Take an active role in measuring and mitigating turnover risk that drives officer retention.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What to know on the way to measurable outcomes.

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First Sign Excellence Accelerator is Benchmark’s tool for measuring and recognizing strong officer performance. Instead of focusing only on risk, it uses data to identify the officers and behaviors driving a positive agency culture, so leaders can recognize and replicate excellence.

Objective performance measurement uses consistent, data-based indicators rather than subjective impressions. First Sign Excellence Accelerator draws on Benchmark’s research-based model to surface the factors that define strong performance, giving leaders an evidence-based view of who is excelling and why.

Agencies that only track problems miss the chance to reinforce what works. Recognizing strong officers improves morale, retention, and culture. First Sign Excellence Accelerator makes positive performance visible and measurable so it can be rewarded and modeled across the agency.

It draws on the same research-based analytics and multi-jurisdictional database that power First Sign Early Intervention, covering performance across the full range of police activity, so recognition reflects real patterns rather than anecdote.

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See What the Outcomes StandardTM Looks Like for Your Agency

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