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June 18, 1990 <br />Districting Recommendations <br />Page 2 <br />Little Canada - One 24 hour squad. One shared squad with Vadnais Heights <br />and Gem Lake. Primary back up will come from the Vadnais <br />Heights /Gem Lake squad. The eight hour squad will be <br />scheduled from 6 pm to 2 am seven days a week. This will <br />enable squads a quicker response time and more squad <br />availability during peak activity hours. <br />Based on an hours dedicated to calls only in 1989, the Vadnais <br />Heights, Gem Lake and Little Canada squads are by far the <br />busiest squads. <br />This patrol plan wil necessitate hiring additional personnel and purchasing <br />additional equipment (squads, lights, etc). It is also taking a hard look at <br />current needs for police service as well as future needs. <br />This plan will allow me as your Police Chief to tailor make the police strategy <br />to fit thevariousCities individual needs. Deputies will be assigned to <br />various cities on a permanent basis and will be that City's police. The <br />uniform Deputies working in a given City will become involved in various City <br />activities from public safety meetings to giving Neighborhood Watch talks on <br />some occassions and then monitoring the Watch groups. The Deputy will become <br />more familiar with the individual problems and concerns of the neighborhoods <br />in his /her patrol area and will be an excellent resource to City Managers and <br />Councils when addressing prublic concerns and solving community problems. <br />The reason the deputy will be allowed to become more involved is because there <br />will be more time available. As you have noticed, the patrol areas have been <br />sized down to a more managable area. The Deputy will have more freedom to <br />get into the neighborhoods on a more personal level. <br />With the current patrol area, the Deputy does not have time for this personal <br />touch since most of the time is spent responding from one call to another. <br />There is little time left for directed traffic enforcement or just spending <br />time with citizens. <br />Deputies will be allowed to stay in their patrol districts since each patrol <br />district is adequately staffed. The only time a Deputy will be called out <br />of his /hser patrol area is to back up another squad or on an emergency call <br />when the area squad is completely tied up or out of service for some reason. <br />In case of sickness of an assigned Deputy, every effort will be made to call <br />another Deputy in to fill the void on an overtime basis. If another Deputy <br />can not be scheduled to fill in, that particular patrol area will go with <br />out for that shift. Other patrol area squads will answer calls for service <br />in the afflicted area. <br />Historically, the Sheriff's Department has used the formula of 5.50 Deputies <br />needed to staff a 24 hour squad car. The latest statistics show that the <br />5.50 is not enough. (See attached fact sheet.) This understaffing generates <br />scheduling and overtime problems. A more realistic proportion would be <br />1.92 Deputies per post of 5.76 Deputies per 24 hour squad. <br />PAGE 149 <br />