Item A: Eugene Police Department Strategic Plan

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Short-term (1-2 Year) Strategic Initiatives Develop an organizational staffing plan ? Staffing needs should be determined employing a dynamic model to permit on-going annual assessment based on changing circumstances of both workload and service expectations. A previous set of consultant studies (David Hobson, 1994, 2000) was used to determine line patrol call response and communications staffing requirements. The previous analysis did not include service level considerations nor did it consider other staffing requirements, including investigative and support. The ICMA-PERF report of March 2005 concurred with this need and made an associated recommendation. In addition to (or in the course of) the new analysis, integrated scheduling and planning software should be obtained so that consistent and sustainable analysis and information is available to support efficient staffing decisions for the long term (5-10 years). Based on needs identified in the analysis and report, a long-term, phased staffing plan will be developed for the Eugene Police Department. The project team will include staff from City Central Services. Develop a police facilities plan ? Present facilities are inadequate to support operations and provide no capacity for growth. Consideration of a replacement headquarters facility remains underway and is a high city priority but is planned and sized assuming one particular deployment model, one that is the least consistent with the community policing philosophy. The plan should address the issue of whether multiple facilities (i.e. precinct or sub-stations) are preferable to a single (headquarters) facility for patrol deployment and whether area public safety stations should be incorporated into overall future facilities planning. This project will inform and join with the broader city facilities planning effort allowing the city to plan and prioritize police facility needs with the many other capital needs of the community. The project team for this initiative will include personnel from City Central Services (Facilities and Finance). Develop a new basic training program ? The Eugene Regional Academy currently has a 21 week basic police training curriculum, completion of which results in Oregon police officer certification by the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training (DPSST). A recent state mandate will require all basic police training in the state to be accomplished at a new DPSST training facility presently under construction in Salem. Once this change occurs (scheduled for January 2007), Eugene must send all new police officer recruits to DPSST for training and supplement that training with agency-specific basic training after the basic academy.