Expanding Wisconsin Dells Population A Policing Challenge

The Wisconsin Dells area has adapted the larger resort style delivery for serving about 4 million vacationers annually.  These larger resort style service delivery modals require a lot more staff than the local population will ever provide.

The Wisconsin Dells area's focus to meet this critical lack of labor is to attract much larger numbers of work experience travelers who come from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Immigration Programming to temporarily live in the Wisconsin Dells area.  The Village of Lake Delton is giving property owners publicly collected money to construct new housing on their land - specifically for the immigrating population.

The Wisconsin Dells area is home to more than 4500 work experience travelers who come from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Programming to temporarily live.  The Wisconsin Dells area actually needs more than twice that many.

The Village of Lake Delton has allocated publicly collected money to construct a new law enforcement building closer to the new convention center.  The community is recognizing the need for additional police officers to properly serve the expanding local population.  The high numbers of work experience travelers - more than 4500 - coming in from outside of the Country to live in the Wisconsin Dells area  - are not counted in calculating the local residents.

This means the police officers that are hired must serve a local population that is really more than twice the actual calculation of local residents.  To add to this challenge - the individuals come from around the globe - with varied levels of  communication - and life style approaches to interacting during their stay in the Wisconsin Dells area.

This means the ability to retain adequate numbers of law enforcement staff throughout the Wisconsin Dells area is becoming increasingly more difficult.  Being an area heavily populated with global residents brings challenges to the police officers day - you would not typically see in other Wisconsin communities.