Item B: Annual Meeting with Police Commission

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Eugene Police Commission FY 2007 -2008 Work Plan FY 2008 Work Plan Tasks and Procedural Objectives Work Plan Objectives The Police Commission’s work plan is divided into the following main components: a) long-range staffing initiative; b) committee projects; c) work sessions and information items. A. Long-Range Police Staffing Initiative At the June 14 meeting, the Police Commission held a work session on the Magellan Comprehensive Staffing Needs Report. The work session entailed a preliminary review of the report’s findings and staff recommendations for next steps. As the City Council’s advisory body on police resource priorities, the commission also discussed what role it might have in facilitating a community conversation on police service levels and formulating policy recommendations around long-range staffing decisions. During the June 23 Police Commissionwork planning session, this topic was selected as its highest priority new project. Consequently, this item is the only new work plan item proposed for FY08. The following tasks are suggested to assist the City in the long-range staffing plan: Participate in an in-depth review of the Magellan Report to better understand the inputs and variables that generate the results Develop recommendations on the staffing analysis based on reliability of data inputs and weighting of different variables used in the model Assist in identifying policy issues and decision points regarding police service levels and public safety outcomes Facilitate public education and input on police service expectations and priorities and the requisite staffing needs to meet those priorities B. Committee Projects As noted earlier, the Police Commission embarked on several new projects this past year, all of them beginning in January 2007. The Family Violence Committee was charged with undertaking review of potential improvements to police response to domestic disturbances. In an attempt to manage workload, the commission scaled back this project instead of postponing discussion altogether. A task team was convened to identify immediate steps that could be taken to lay the groundwork for the department’s strategic initiative to “Develop a Comprehensive Domestic Violence Response.” The team has met with key stakeholders to assemble a preliminary list of short-term, relatively simple recommendations to improve police response to domestic disturbances and/or streamline procedures. The team plans to share these recommendations with the Domestic Violence Council for its input prior to presenting them for Police Commission consideration. It is anticipated that this phase of the project will be completed in the next few months. Suggestions for commission activities that address family this topic in a more comprehensive manner will be included in the team’s report as potential next steps. Also identified in last year’s work plan was a multi-year effort to assist in updating the police policy manual, utilizing the Lexipol structure as the framework for a comprehensivepolicy review process. The commission formed a ‘Policy Screening Team’to review and provide comment on policy drafts 2- Adopted July 12, 2007 -