Laserfiche WebLink
two Sergeants, two Investigators and nine Patrol Officers. <br />The Department also employs a Community Service Officer, <br />one full time Secretary and one part time Secretary. <br />Support services are provided by the Ramsey County <br />Sheriff's Department, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension <br />and other agencies. <br />To help supplement the manpower shortage, the <br />Department created a Reserve Unit in 1986. The Reserve <br />Unit presently consists of seven members who regularly <br />patrol with sworn officers. Reserve Officers and/or part- <br />time officers should not be considered as a replacement for <br />a regular full-time officer. Their authority, duties, and <br />responsibilities are very limited. <br />We will be working with school officials on a drug <br />education program at Pinewood School. Project D.A.R.E. <br />(Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is a substance use <br />prevention program designed to equip elementary school <br />children with skills for resisting pressure to experiment with <br />tobacco, drugs and alcohol. This year we will have an <br />officer teaching five fifth grade classes for a period of <br />seventeen consecutive weeks. The D.A.R.E. Officer will <br />spend a minimum of two days a week at Pinewood School <br />during this seventeen week period. Teaching D.A.R.E. at <br />Edgewood Middle School is a possibility for 1996. The <br />D.A.R.E. curriculum for Middle School is a' two week <br />program. The availability of training for our current <br />D.A.R.E. officer could delay the implementation until 1997. <br />Also available to our department is an assignment to the <br />Ramsey County Drug Task Force. Without obtaining <br />additional staff, this assignment is not feasible., <br />In 1995 the department applied for and was granted COP <br />3� <br />