The Albany Police Department has shredders in their office and a recycling service to take away the shreds. However, like so many other offices private records were discovered in the dumpster. [source]

It is easy to write a policy that says officers should spend their time at a shredder. But they are measured on doing police work, not clerical work. Most officers would try to get them away from the lowly office work. As a result the shredding is left undone.

Unless they want a re-occurrence then they need to make the job easy. They can either hire a person to do the work or use a paper shredding service. The later is easily the more economical choice.