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<br /> soliciting overtime to attend to those calls. So, this is still only like two (2) and a half, three (3)
<br /> months into the testing and evaluation phase. I did talk with our finance people today, and there
<br /> has been, well actually, we have not spent, compared to last year at this time, the amount of
<br /> overtime money that we did. So, that's so far, so good. And we hope that maintains. We will look
<br /> further into the rest of the department, maybe some things here in the future. But as for now, with
<br /> a smaller venue, as you will, with detectives, that's our incentive.
<br /> He went on, We also replaced iRecord system in 2019. That is a huge, and obviously key,
<br /> component in evidence preservation for our investigations. When we come in and interview
<br /> people, that's immediate. The prosecutor has access to that, so they don't have to come to us, get
<br /> copies, find it, put it on a disk and all that kind of stuff. They would be able to access the iRecord
<br /> system themselves. So, we use that throughout the Police Department. That was an upgrade to the
<br /> antiquated iRecord system that we previously had. But again, a lot of people may think that we
<br /> still sit there with a VHS camera and do the recording. That is not the case. I'm proud of all these
<br /> things,but one(1) of the things I couldn't be any more proud of, and you all are familiar with this,
<br /> is the Police Athletic League. Right now, we have four hundred and sixty-four (464) kids in our
<br /> Police Athletic League. That's not counting the boxing program that is still being done and has
<br /> been done. This is over twenty (20) years. Darryl Boykins started this a long time ago. He's been
<br /> doing it ever since. He still continues to do it. Again, four hundred and sixty-four(464) kids, all
<br /> sports primarily, but we actually incorporated swimming this year, and we have sixty-four (64)
<br /> kids,I believe,that are learning to swim for the first(1St)time. I know the Council had asked before
<br /> about the demographics, the breakdown. I know it took me a couple days, but I wanted it in chart
<br /> fashion. I had to take kids'names out and stuff like that for their protection, for legal reasons. But
<br /> I could not be any more proud of the way that program has gone. I still have some scars from
<br /> learning to try to play tennis myself.That didn't work out so well. I think me and the other division
<br /> chiefs are going next week to make another attempt at it. I don't know how that's going to play out,
<br /> but it is what it is.
<br /> He continued, We're also replacing Detective Bureau vehicles with fuel-efficient hybrid Ford
<br /> Focuses. Sorry, let me get to that next one (1). So, right now, we have Tauruses, fifteen (15) of
<br /> them, that are going to be transferred to the Patrol Division. We're going to use the fuel-efficient
<br /> hybrids now to replace those. So,anybody who's not in patrol will be having a hybrid vehicle from
<br /> here on out. That's going to be a huge cost saving measure. I know Dan has the fuel consumption
<br /> gallons and things like that, but there's absolutely no way that you cannot get better gas mileage
<br /> from a hybrid vehicle. We're also in the process of restructuring records to eliminate the third(3`d)
<br /> shift. That's hopefully going to be a cost savings. We have projected costs within two (2) years
<br /> right around$250,000 by those. We are not terminating anybody's position.Those will be through
<br /> attrition. We have one (1) person that, next month, I think it's next month or maybe the month
<br /> after,the end of August or September, will be retiring from our department, from our records, and
<br /> another one (1) that is likely either retiring, or maybe has found a different job, but there is no
<br /> termination of any employees. I want to be clear on that. We still continue, obviously, with the
<br /> community's input, to explore outreach events to establish stronger relationships. People call it
<br /> "community policing", we don't call it that. It's relationship policing and that's what we've been
<br /> trying for the last several years to do. So, we welcome any input that there is, and how do we do
<br /> what we're doing better, what are we missing, and what shouldn't we be doing are the most
<br /> important questions. And we still look for that, whether it's from the Council, the Board of Public
<br /> Safety, our patrol officers, everybody in between.
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