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5 5.6 5.4 5.4 8.2 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Grid 7 Grid 25 Grid 31 Grid 36 Average response time in minutes Source Data: CAD medicals appendix B In 2012, The Lino Lakes Police Department was on 12 hour shifts with a three car minimum. Due to budget and staffing issues, shifts were changed to a 9.5 hour shift with only a two car minimum. It is unknown how the reduction in staffing will affect response times going forward. Availability Ti me Each Lino Lakes Officer is scheduled for 2080 hours per year, but they are not available for patrol coverage for 2080 hours. To ca lculate the hours that each sworn employee is available for patrol coverage, you need to take into account holidays, vacat ion days, training days, court, sick days, and other approved leave. National availability rates range from 65%-85%. Through in -house computer based training and moving to an on - call basis for court, Lino Lakes Officers have an availability rate of 75 %. The Lino Lakes availability rate was calculated by taking the number of shifts where officers took leave or scheduled for training and dividing that by the number of scheduled shifts in a month. Breaks dictated b y contract and a ccrued l eave amounts are ca lculated in as well. The sworn patrol staff of the LLPD has an average of 529 hours of available leave per officer (529 divided by 2080 = .25). Using this availability rate, each patrol officer starts with 1560 potential hours. While the Lino Lakes goal is that 45% of an officer ’s time is spent on proactive, self -initiated activities, the IACP states that common practice is one - third of an officer’s time is spent on such activities. If the LLPD is to keep up with industry standards and have officer spen d one -third of their time on COP/POP activities, then each officer has 1040 hours to dedicate to patrol, administration, and responding to calls for service. Total Hours Availability rate of 75% Available Hours after dedicated COP/POP 2080 1560 1040