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is prepared for. <br /> The Police Department provides police services to the community <br /> year around, twenty-four hours per day. At the present time, the <br /> Department employs: Chief, Lieutenant, two Sergeants, two <br /> Investigators and nine Patrol Officers. The Department also employs <br /> a Community Service Officer, one full time Secretary and one part <br /> time Secretary. Support services are provided by the Ramsey County <br /> Sheriff's Department, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and other <br /> agencies. <br /> To help supplement the manpower shortage, the Department created <br /> a Reserve Unit in 1986. The Reserve Unit presently consists of seven <br /> members who regularly patrol with sworn officers. Reserve Officers <br /> and/or part-time officers should not be considered as a replacement <br /> for a regular full-time officer. Their authority, duties, and <br /> responsibilities are very limited. The current ratio of one officer per <br /> 1 ,000 inhabitants is below the State average of 1 .2 officers per 1 ,000 <br /> inhabitants for Class V cities. <br /> In response to national and local concern about drug abuse, the <br /> Police Department will attack the problem in two ways. On the <br /> prevention side, we will be working with school officials on a drug <br /> education program at Pinewood School. Project D.A.R.E. (Drug <br /> Abuse Resistance Education) is a substance use prevention program <br /> designed to equip elementary school children with skills for resisting <br /> pressure to experiment with tobacco, drugs and alcohol. This Fall we <br /> will have an officer teaching five fifth grade classes for a period of <br /> seventeen consecutive weeks. The D.A.R.E. Officer will spend a <br /> minimum of two days a week at Pinewood School during this <br /> seventeen week period. <br /> On the enforcement side, the Police Department will try to assign an <br /> officer to the Ramsey County Drug Task Force. This assignment will <br /> be for a minimum period of three months. An assignment for a <br /> longer period would be of a great benefit for Mounds View, but <br /> without hiring additional staff, both the Drug Task Force and Project <br /> D.A.R.E. would be in jeopardy. <br /> 21 <br />