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. . . 4. The proposal includes hiring six new patrol officcrs in order to extcnd services to Arden Hills. How will they be assigned? Does this represent a service level of a minimum one patrol car in Arden Hills 24 hours a day, seven days per week? Six new officers will be hired in order to provide the appropriate level of patrol services for the two cities. Arden Hills will not be assigned the six new patrol officers. They will be hired and trained and worked into the schedule rotation, In New Brighton the patrol officers work nine-hour shifts. This proposal would result in adding two officers to each of three shifts. The result is that Arden Hills would have a minimum of one patrol 24-7, similar to the current Ramsey County level of service. Because of the way the nine-hour shifts work, there are periods oftime where the shifts overlap and additional officers are on duty. The current minimum staffing for the City of New Brighton is two officers in6luding a supervisor, but generally it is two officers and a supervisor for a total of three. They have a mandatory minimum staffing on Fridays and Saturdays of two officers and one supervisor for a total of three. With Arden Hills, the mandatory minimum at all times would include two officers (with one assigned to and working Arden Hills) and one supervisor. A mandatory minimum on Fridays and Saturdays would be three police officers (one assigned to Arden Hills) and one supervisor. This would be the most common arrangement at all times of the day. Also, response to Arden Hills would include the two Deputy Directors of Public Safety and the Director as needed. The Director and Deputies respond to a substantial number of calls. They consider themselves 'working management", doing what they can to support officers in the field. 5. Under the current agreement with Ramsey County, a dcputy is assigned to work solely on traffic. Approximately 15.3953% of his time is allotted to Arden Hills. How would traffic enforcement be performed under the New Brighton proposal? All officers assigned to patrol duties are assigned to work traffic as part of their regular patrol duties. For special traffic studies or select traffic enforcement issues, the following could occur: . A neighborhood could work with their neighborhood liaison officer . Arden Hills staff could request a study (for example, speed studies) . Under the New Brighton proposal, tlle police officer assigned to SRO duties at Mounds View High School would perform traffic enforcement work during the summer months