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Department Accomplishments<br />
• Completed Police Department Annual Audit <strong>of</strong> services.<br />
• Successfully implemented Restorative Discipline at <strong>Reedley</strong> High School.<br />
• Successfully launched a Business Watch Program working closely with the <strong>Reedley</strong><br />
Downtown Association.<br />
• Successfully launched a Quarterly Neighborhood Watch Captains training Academy.<br />
• Implemented “Command Central”, a program used to identify and predict w<strong>here</strong> crimes<br />
are going to occur.<br />
• Purchased and put into service five (5) new police patrol vehicles.<br />
• Successfully presented “Active School Shooter” training to seven (7) schools in our<br />
community reaching out to approximately 300 school personnel.<br />
• Successfully recruited and hired a Lateral Police Officer, increasing our sworn police<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficer staff to 28.<br />
• In partnership with <strong>Reedley</strong> Police Officers Association raised funds for a new K9.<br />
Department Goals<br />
• Increase our Police Officer Reserve Program.<br />
• Fill two (2) vacant police <strong>of</strong>ficer positions.<br />
• Continue to reach out to the community through Neighborhood Watch, building<br />
partnerships and mitigating problems through enforcement and education.<br />
• Identify and address traffic concerns through engineering, enforcement, and education.<br />
• Increase visible presence in the community with an emphasis on residential<br />
neighborhoods.<br />
• Utilize Crime Analysis to focus on crime trends within the community in order to better<br />
deploy resources.<br />
• Further our Restorative Justice efforts by recruiting Volunteer Mediators.<br />
Challenges for FY 2013-14<br />
• Loss <strong>of</strong> $100,000 annually as a result <strong>of</strong> losing Federal Aid provided through the Federal<br />
Rehiring Grant obtained in 2009.<br />
• Costs continue to rise for such fundamentals as gasoline.<br />
• Start <strong>of</strong>f the 2013 – 2014 fiscal year with a critically high number <strong>of</strong> position vacancies.<br />
• Current trends show an increase <strong>of</strong> property related crimes.<br />
• State mandated training for police <strong>of</strong>ficers requiring us to send them to training and<br />
backfill them with overtime.<br />
• Continuance <strong>of</strong> State prisoner realignment (AB109).<br />
Positive Factors FY 2013-14<br />
• The commitment <strong>of</strong> the police department to adopt an annual operating budget that is<br />
able to sustain current operations and provide some financial support for future needs.<br />
• Continue to control labor costs and work with the <strong>City</strong> Manager to apply any savings to<br />
other underfunded line item expenses.<br />
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CITY OF REEDLEY<br />
ADOPTED BUDGET 2013-2014