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Ramsey County Sheriff's Department . Questions: 1. Does RCS have a position similar to the Public Safety Officer's (PSO's) in New Brighton? If so, is some time allocated to the contract cities and do we pay for that under the contract? The County has Community Affairs Officers (CAO'S) - which are somewhat similar to the Volunteer's in Public Safety (VIP's) in New Brighton. The CAO's are volunteers. There are about 46 volunteers and they provide approximately 10,000 hours of service per year throughout the COlmty, Ramsey County does not really have an equivalent to New Brighton's PSO positon (which is a paid part-time position), but feels they've been able to cover some of those types of duties through the CAO's. (One difference- N~w Brighton uses the CAO's to do some of their transports. For the County, the Deputies do the transports,) The County uses Reserves a lot in the summer months, and they also do some PSO-types of duties. The reserves operate as part of the Water Patrol. Duties inClude providing security at sports games in County parks and parks patrol. The Reserves are all volunteers and there approximately 50 Reserves currently working with the department. (New Brighton also has a reserve unit). . 2. Can you describe services offered by RCS under the description "neighborhood policing"? Resources allocated (i.e. positions, contract cities overall and AH specifically) and how paid for. The neighborhood policing efforts are provided largely through the CAO's. The CAO's get involved in neighborhood policing issues. An example is their efforts to resolve a criminal damage to property issue in Arden Hills a few years ago. There is a deputy assigned to "Crime Prevention/Crime Analysis" for the contract cities. Arden Hills is estimated to pay $ 12,838.09 (roughly 14%) towards the budget for the crime prevention deputy in 2004. Ramsey County does not provide neighborhood policing services via the "Community Policing" model, similar to New Brighton. (This has also been described as the "grid" system.) The crime prevention deputy works with neighborhood watch groups. Another deputy is assigned to work with the CAO's, The County would describe their approach to neighborhood policing more as "problem-oriented" policing, This consists of attempting to assign "specialists" to deal with neighborhood problems. 3. Can you describe services offered by RCS under the description "crime prevention"? Resources allocated (i.e. positions, contract cities overall and AH specifically) and how paid for. .