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Future Challenges There are three issues on the horizon which will affect crime in Lino Lakes: availability rate, development, and population growth. Availability Rate Each Lino Lakes Officer is scheduled for 2080 hours per year, but they are not available for patrol coverage for 2080 hours. To calculate the hours that each sworn employee is available for patrol coverage, you need to take into account holidays, vacation days, training days, court, sick days, and other approved leave. National availability rates range from 65%-85%. Because of increased training demands of fire service, the availability rate of Lino Lakes officers has dropped from 75% to 60%. The Lino Lakes availability rate was calculated by factoring in: the number accrued leave amounts available to each officer, Labor law and union contracts, police training demands, fire training demands, and court appearances. 2016 Availability Rate Starting hours Hours Available for responding to calls, investigation, paperwork and traffic enforcement 2080 Available Leave 858 -514 Labor law/contracts -218 Fire training -72 Police training -40 Court -10 Avail Hours 1226 Rate= 60% In 2016, each member of the police division will have 1226 hours to dedicate to police activities (not including any supervision, voluntary training, proactive crime prevention, or community oriented policing). The International Association of Chiefs of Police determined that to assist in determining staffing needs, best practice is to factor 1/3 of available hours to proactive problem solving and community oriented policing. Available hours IACP Best Practices for COP Hours Available for responding to calls, investigation, paperwork and traffic enforcement 1226 -368 858 Two officers on duty at all times on a 9.5 schedule require 57 scheduled hours per day (9.5 x 3 x 2=57) or 20,805 hours per year. Maintaining the two officer minimum and still engaging with the community, LLPSD would need to allocate 24 officers to patrol, which would bring total sworn police staffing to 32. If no expectation of COP is in place and no time set aside for supervisory activities LLPDS would need to allocate 17 officers to patrol. If staffed with 26 sworn police staff, LLPSD will have 18 Officers assigned to patrol.