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Regular City Council Meeting <br /> Monday,January 28,2019 <br /> Page 7 <br /> Deputy Chief Scheider stated the 2018 data will not be out until summer 2019 so <br /> she would have a hard time to get those figures to determine where it went from <br /> 2017-2018. <br /> Chief Mathwig stated the overall case clearance rate has been trending down as <br /> going forward in time. <br /> Mayor Roe stated one of the things he learned in talking to residents last summer, <br /> was concern with follow through and follow-up, and the customer service aspect <br /> of dealing with cases. He wondered if that is where this falls or is it in another <br /> part of Department operations as well. <br /> Chief Mathwig stated some of the lack of follow-up is going to be directly related <br /> to the amount of cases the detective has assigned to them. <br /> Councilmember Etten stated the Police Department is looking at requesting an <br /> additional detective in 2020. He wondered where that would put the average case <br /> load. <br /> Chief Mathwig indicated he has not yet done that math. This average case load <br /> does not list that a detective might be on light duty for a couple of weeks and have <br /> a lighter load as well. He stated the case load would be lower. <br /> Councilmember Etten indicated if the goal is to lower case load, but not knowing <br /> where the Police Department wants to get to, he did not know if an officer or two <br /> was going to answer that question. He stated going forward, he would like to <br /> know how it would affect the case load. <br /> Chief Mathwig stated that is hard to determine an acceptable case load because <br /> looking nationwide the statistics shown are for homicides, which is probably one <br /> a month, twelve for each detective in a homicide case but indicated that he will <br /> work on finding what the acceptable case load should be for detectives. <br /> Mayor Roe asked how many detectives are there currently where the case loads <br /> are divided amongst to get the average of 211. <br /> Deputy Chief Scheider stated the Roseville Police Department has one Lieutenant <br /> that oversees the investigation unit and also works cases whenever he can. There <br /> is one Detective Sergeant who also works cases and supervises their impact with <br /> five Detectives and two Impact Officers. <br /> Chief Mathwig indicated the math does not include the two Impact Officers be- <br /> cause that is unique. <br /> Councilmember Etten asked when the Impact Officers were added. <br />