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The Services Division provides a wide range of administrative and support services directly for both the Uniform Division and Investigation Division, and for the Police Department's overall public service. These services include records data, photo lab, fingerprint classification and processing, burglar alarm coordination, communications center, public relations, crimestoppers, public information, training, computer services and motor pool. 2e Annexation Responsibilities The basic unit of the Uniform Division is the patrol beat. Presently, the patrol beat requires 4.5 uniform officers. The creation of a beat considers a variety of factors including overall geographic size, type of land use, street layouts and traffic, population and social/economic factors. The beat itself can be comprised of several reporting districts, which are the basic evaluation units that cumulatively build to create a beat. The department has used a systematic evaluation methodology for determining the personnel needs for previous annexations. Using the criteria noted above, the department can estimate proportional time commitments for patrol and other incidents involving the beat officer and the service needs of the Investigative Division and support services. From these estimates, a cost to provide police services for an annexation can be determined. This methodology should be continued for future annexations and, because of the possibility for larger -scale annexations, should be expanded to cover all of the services provided by the department. The methodology used by the Police Department also considers long-range service needs created by annexation. The ebb and flow between deficit and surplus service capabilities can be managed and the deviation from the standard level of service can be minimized by periodic adjustments of the beat boundaries, adding supplemental beat patrols, and the creation of new beats when necessary. In 1992, the Police Department will add beat 16 in the southeast part of the City and Beat 20 in the northwest part of the City. These areas, presently being patrolled by Beat 15 and Beat 22, respectively, are presently causing some deficit service capabilities upon their present beats, Though the department has been able to minimize these deficits by adding supplemental patrols, the new beats will reduce the deficit service demand being placed upon the present beat and allow that beat to return to its standard level of service. The new beats, on the other hand, will have some surplus capabilities which can assist adjacent beats and which will permit future annexations to take place without having a negative impact upon the Police Department. This long-range planning, of course, will need to be continued and must be based upon an established service methodology. 44