First Sign®

One System, Built Around The Whole Officer

Research-based insight across the entire arc of an officer’s career

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Four Ways First Sign Works for Every Officer

First Sign is built on a whole-officer framework designed to help officers perform at their best and thrive across their careers. It anchors four research-based offerings across the full arc of an officer’s career: early intervention, wellness, excellence, and retention. One connected system that identifies who needs support and who deserves recognition, early enough to act on either.

Early Intervention Wellness Excellence Retention
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First Sign® Early Intervention

With 85% model precision, Benchmark’s research-based, data-driven solution is the industry’s most effective, accurate EIS. Our unique process enables agencies to better identify at-risk behavior for proactive intervention and officer support.

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Model precision for proactive intervention

With 85% model precision, Benchmark’s research-based, data-driven solution, developed with the University of Chicago, is the industry’s most effective, accurate EIS. Our unique process enables agencies to better identify at-risk behavior for proactive intervention and officer support

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First Sign® Precision Wellness

Our data-driven wellness solution assesses officer performance patterns using research supported by over 80 million data points. This multi-faceted platform also offers curated, agency-specific intervention and support, as well as tracks and reports on wellness progress.

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First Sign® Excellence Accelerator

Enlist data and analytics to identify your most talented and capable officers. Our research-based solution recognizes the officers who are leading the way with exceptional performance and enables growth-oriented coaching toward success for all.

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First Sign® Retention Monitor

Turnover is affecting agencies nationwide. Our proactive solution addresses it head on, tracking turnover trends, identifying the individual officers most at risk of leaving, and equipping supervisors to take action.

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First Sign is Benchmark’s predictive platform for officer wellness and performance. It powers four connected offerings, Early Intervention, Precision Wellness, Excellence Accelerator, and Retention Monitor, on one system, using a research-based model to surface both risk and opportunity early, while there’s still time to act.

First Sign identifies officers who may benefit from support, wellness resources, or recognition before problems escalate. It is built to protect and develop officers proactively, surfacing patterns early so agencies can respond with support and recognition, not just react when something goes wrong.

Traditional early warning systems trigger only after an officer crosses a fixed threshold. First Sign uses a predictive model co-developed with the University of Chicago to detect patterns earlier and far more accurately, so support can occur before an adverse incident.

First Sign analyzes data across virtually every aspect of police operations within the largest multi-jurisdictional officer performance database in policing, 80 million records across 2,500+ agencies, which makes its predictions more precise as the data grows.

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