Title
Add Civilian Positions in Police Department for Staffing Relief (Ordinance S-48391)
Description
Request authorization for the City Manager, or his designee, to allow the Police Department to add 33 civilian positions to the Investigations Division and North/South Patrol Divisions to provide staffing relief.
Report
Summary
The Police Department requests to add 25 positions to the Investigations Division and eight positions to the North/South Patrol Divisions as part of the Department's civilianization efforts (Attachment A). Due to current and future sworn staffing challenges, it is critical for the Department to identify job functions that are currently being performed by sworn personnel, that can be completed by civilians.
The Police Civilian Investigators will provide support to the Violent Crimes, Family Investigations, Property Crimes, and Drug Enforcement Bureaus. This classification will perform selected investigator functions to provide necessary staffing flexibility, increase effectiveness with the Department’s investigative capacity, and allow the Department to use sworn staff where they are most needed.
The Police Assistants for the precincts will perform several tasks of a quasi-police nature in support of the law enforcement activities in the North/South Patrol Divisions. The positions will respond to calls for service not requiring the presence of a sworn officer, assist with civil traffic collisions, provide traffic control, and respond to misdemeanor crimes with no follow-up. In FY2017-18 the Department received 16 precinct Police Assistant positions. These positions have allowed officers to respond to higher priority calls and has been very successful in providing relief.
Financial Impact
There is no financial impact as funding is already available in the Police Department's budget.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Assistant City Manager Lori Bays and the Police Department.