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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes March 28 2017 Page 6 appreciate their hard work. Mayor Faust stated the Police Department has the support of the 1 Mayor, Council, and residents of St. Anthony. 2 3 Ms. Robinette asked why this year’s annual report was much shorter than the previous one and if 4 there will be a longer annual report. Mayor Faust asked that all questions be directed to him. Ms. 5 Robinette stated all her questions were not previously answered. She asked if Police Chief 6 Mangseth will be available to discuss the longer report. Ms. Robinette asked which community 7 this report is for and are Lauderdale and Falcon Heights included, how Mr. Castille’s death was 8 going to be recorded, and about the three new hires coming from the reserves. Ms. Robinette 9 asked if residents would be involved in the hiring of new officers. She stated she came here with 10 questions for the Police Chief since he was on the agenda. She asked if the Police Chief will 11 open up the hiring of new offices to outside the reserve ranks, if the Police Department has any 12 more specific officer focused bias awareness training, if officers were permitted to select 13 additional training in their interest areas, and was this still the Chief’s policy. Ms. Robinette 14 asked if there is a policy in place to review those additional trainings, how Police Reserves are 15 selected, and whether the community engagement is just in St. Anthony or do those efforts also 16 occur in Falcon Heights and Lauderdale. 17 18 Councilmember Gray asked if Chief Mangseth is available to speak with residents and answer 19 questions. Mr. Casey stated email is a good vehicle for asking questions of the Police Chief. 20 21 Mayor Faust asked Chief Mangseth to come to the podium. Mayor Faust stated the Annual 22 Report is 40 pages in 2016 and 35 pages in 2015. He commented the Police Chief is available, 23 the report is just for St. Anthony, and the shooting of Mr. Castille will be included in the Falcon 24 Heights numbers. It was noted that one reserve officer went to the Highway Patrol and came 25 back to serve as an officer in St. Anthony. 26 27 Police Chief Mangseth agreed and stated bias awareness training will continue. He stated 28 additional training is vetted by Department leadership and the State of Minnesota. Reserves are 29 selected through an open application process. Mayor Faust asked if similar crime prevention 30 initiatives are done in Falcon Heights and Lauderdale as done in St. Anthony. Chief Mangseth 31 responded yes. 32 33 Ms. Sandy Sherman asked about the reductions in calls in 2016 and whether there were market 34 drops in calls or citations. She would like to see a month-by-month breakdown. Mayor Faust 35 stated an average there was one less call per day. Chief Mangseth stated a data request can be 36 made by Ms. Sherman and the information can be provided. The reason the calls in service went 37 down is because fewer traffic citations were issued. 38 39 Mr. Lowell Ludford, 2813 Townview Avenue, stated he did not hear in the Chief’s report any 40 mention of the St. Anthony volunteer effort to be a part of the COPS program. He suggested the 41 Council and Police Department congratulate themselves about this as it was a big deal. Mayor 42 Faust stated St. Anthony applied to become part of the COPS program. The DOJ commended St. 43 Anthony and the data is being compiled. 44 45 VII. REPORTS FROM CITY MANAGER AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. 46 18