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<br />Fergus Falls Police Department- 20 total sworn officers <br />• 1-Chief, 1-Captain, 5- Sergeants <br /> <br />Robbinsdale Police Department- 19 total sworn officers <br />• 1-Chief, 4 Sergeants <br /> <br />Rosemount Police Department- 19 total sworn officers <br />• 1-Chief, 1-Lieutenant, 3-Sergeants <br /> <br /> <br />St. Anthony Police Department 20 total sworn officers <br />• 1-Chief, 1- Captain, 2 Lieutenants, 2- Sergeants <br /> <br />Ramsey Police Department 18 total sworn officers <br />• 1-Chief, 1-Captain, 3-Sergeants <br /> <br />New Ulm Police Department 17 total sworn officers <br />• 1-Chief, 4 Sergeants <br /> <br />Fairmont Police Department 18 total sworn officers <br />• 1-Chief, 1-Lieutenant, 4-Sergeants <br /> <br />Orono Police Department 18 total sworn officers <br />• 1-Chief, 4-Sergeants <br /> <br />Virgina Police Department 20 total sworn officers <br />• 1-Chief, 4- Lieutenants, 2-Sergeants <br /> <br />Cloquet Police Department 18 total sworn officers <br />• 1-Chief, 4-Sergeants <br /> <br /> <br />As you can see by this data the Mounds View Police Department has fewer administrative/ <br />supervisory personnel than similar sized police departments. This means that we are not <br />able to provide supervision to officers at many times. This has been problematic for the <br />Mounds View Police Department. There are many implications associated with <br />unsupervised employees including liability issues to the City. While it will be more <br />expensive to pay an employee at the rate of pay of a supervisor vs. a line officer, this <br />additional cost could easily be offset by reducing the risk associated with failing to provide <br />adequate supervision to employees working in the high-risk business of policing. <br /> <br />The Police Department operates a 24 hour per day, 365 days per year schedule. In this <br />scheduling arrangement five employees are required to have one employee on duty 24 <br />hours a day every day of the year. With two sergeants we are able to provide first line <br />supervision 40% of the time. This means 60% of the time our patrol officers are working <br />without direct first line supervision. Currently, nearly ½ of our patrol officers have less <br />than one year of police experience on the department. This is why similar sized <br />departments usually have three or more sergeants available to supervise their patrol