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1985 LONG TERM FINANCIAL PLAN Page Fifteen The Police Department added an officer to its force in 1985. nearly 13,000, the With 13 sworn officers and a population of thousand inhabitants is 1.0. The ratio of sworn officers to one for communities the size of Mounds View is 1.2 state average ted thousand inhabitants. is anticipa athat officers per one sit level add to i... __.__ g the department w11, to approach staffing levels of surrounding communities' effort police departments. Assuming that the department would add one of 1.1 patrol officer in 1907, the department would have a ratio officers per one thousand inhabitants. To h91p supplement officer shortages or to have more officers available during special events or disasters, the Department will during examine the Poe 2Unit that currently the last half of 1985. Other Police Departments for each Reservist a complete have Police Reserves, purchase This would cost the City approximately uniform plus equipment. S300-$400 per Reservist. This uniform and any equipment (gun belt, etc.) will be the property of the City. g thatthe the Police Department would start with six Reserve officers, be epproxl-mately $2,400. All work initial cost to the City would officer is strictly volunteer. In performed by a Resurve required training for a Reserve Officer would be of ' addition, all little or no cost to the City. Many Reserve officers work in excess of 1C0 hours per year, with many cities, the minimum is 100 hours per year. number of hours a Reservist must work A reorganization of the Police Department is proposed to occur in Corporal 1986. Proposed changes include the elimination of the Corporal would and Sargeant/Investigator positions. The current also be fic made a Sargeant and nn additional Sargeant would be asFigned to added. The current Sargeant/Investigator would a Leiutenant the position of Investigator. The creation of and position is also a possibility. Attached is a current proposed organizational chart of the Police Department. to recent adoption of the administrative Offense Chapter of Due the Municipal Cope, the Police Department's activities as it Coda relates to citing non-moving traffic violations and the of Chapter 400, violations will change. with Implementation ranking officer will serve as the Police Chief and next senior Also, the fact that the type Of Administrative Hearing Officers. regulated by Chapter 400 will, in most cases, not offenses involve court proceedings, the issuing officers will no longer should need to appear when a hearing is conducted. This change to have a significant impact upon court time/overtime paid officers.