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<br />activities that make responses to Category One services more efficient <br />and/or safer, representing a positive cost-benefit relationship. The <br />SWAT/Crisis Negotiation Team is an example of a program that can more <br />safely handle certain types of high-risk calls at less cost and risk than a <br />non-specialized response. <br /> <br /> There is some proactivity involved in Category Two programs associated <br />with investigations, policy development, planning, and basic crime <br />analysis. There is very little ability to forego one of these activities for <br />additional, proactive activities. <br /> <br />3. Discretionary, increasingly proactive. <br /> <br /> Category Three programs are discretionary services. This does not mean <br />they are not important. A Category Three service is one that the City can <br />reasonably choose to deliver (or not) and one that could be traded off for <br />the capacity to perform a more proactive service. For example, the City <br />chooses to not provide a basic traffic accident investigation service (a <br />Level 4 call type) but does choose to more highly prioritize specialized, <br />proactive traffic enforcement efforts (TEU). <br /> <br /> <br />As these programs are considered and prioritized, it should be noted that (with the <br />exception of Category One that must exist as a whole) the level of discretion and <br />proactivity generally increases as the numbers increase. Program interrelationships are <br />important considerations for placement on the priority list. No program can exist any <br />higher in priority than another, prerequisite program or function. For example, the <br />department cannot assign property crime investigations at a higher priority than the initial <br />patrol call response for these cases. Likewise, the addition (or expansion) of a program <br />of lower priority may affect resource requirements of a program higher on the list. The <br />addition of a Traffic Enforcement Unit, for example, may require additional resources in <br />Records (a program within EPD) or Municipal Court (a set of programs outside of EPD <br />but within the City of Eugene organization). <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />