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Alarms: Many suburban fire agencies have implemented a Fire Duty Officer model of response to address firefighter "burn -out", budget issues, and enhance the level of service provided to their communities. The Fire Duty Officer model assigns one staff member to respond to calls, such as alarms, to determine if the alarm is false. This model of response has ensured that fire response is appropriate and reduced the staffing demands on the fire agency as a whole in the communities utilizing this model. If Lino Lakes moves to a duty officer model by utilizing properly trained police officers that are already on -duty, full fire response call load would be reduced by 64 calls in 2012 (66% reduction) and 87 calls in 2013 (72% reduction). Currently police officers do not respond in this manner, therefore it would increase the call volume for police. Training: Tn order to properly training and certify personnel on fire services it is estimated to require 170 hours of -initial -training -with -at least 4 -hours -of additional -monthly -training. If 10 police officers volunteered to become certified firefighters that would require 1700 of initial training hours. The ongoing annual training would add 36 training hours per cross trained police officer at a minimum. Conclusion: Given the analysis of CFD data, if the City of Lino Lakes implements the response protocols as recommended by the Medical Director for medical response and a Duty Officer model is used the call load for paid on-call fire personnel would be reduced from the current levels. Had these response protocols been implemented in Lino Lakes in 2012 and 2013 the CFD call load for Lino Lakes would have been reduced to 305 (2012) and 227 (2013). Staff is providing this information for Council review, comment and consideration in the continuing 2015 Budget discussion. Detailed analysis of the CFD 2012 & 2013 Data is below: ONE VISION. ONE MISSION. LINO LAKES PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT.