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• • • • assist front office volunteers • general clerical assist The current level of staffing is required due to daily mandatory tasks and timely processing of police reports as required by state and federal mandates. Community Service Officer The police department employs two part time Community Service Officers (CSO). The CSO program is designed to serve as recruitment tool for the Police Officer position. The CSOs are enrolled in either a Criminal Justice or Law Enforcement program and are limited to three years of employment with the police department. During a department restructuring that took place in 2008, the police department employed four part- time CSOs. The CSOs primary duties are: respond to ordinance calls for service delivery of packets to elected officials and City Commission members delivery and pick up of evidence and /or other items from Anoka County Lab, BCA Lab, or other locations as directed • • assist patrol officers as directed to maximize sworn staff availability coordinator and /or assist at various community events cover Front Office staff during vacations and training other duties as assigned. Currently the police department employs two part-time CSOs, which requires the police department to utilize sworn staff to perform some duties that had been performed by CSOs in the past. This is not the preferred method of staff utilization but the difficult economic times of the last several years have required tough staffing decisions. Officer The police department employs eighteen Police Officers. The officer rank is currently assigned as follows. • 2 - Investigators (3 year assignment) • 2 - School Resource Officers (1 assigned in the Middle School & 1 assigned to the 3 elementary schools) • 1- Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Task Force Officer • 1— Preventative Policing Officer (PPO) • 12 — Officers assigned to patrol