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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: April 20, 2020 Item No.: 9. Department Approval City Manager Approval Item Description: Receive Authorization to sign Memorandum of Understanding with LELS Local 112 to implement a Community Service Officer Liaison position in Police Department 1 B ACKGROUND 2 For many years, the Roseville Police Department (RPD) has taken proactive measures to reflect the 3 community we serve through increasing our commitment to diversifying staff, especially police 4 officers. The City of Roseville is an active member of the Government Alliance on Racial Equity 5 (GARE) and strives to employ minorities in law enforcement. RPD’s program specifically seeks 6 non-traditional law enforcement candidates with preference given to candidates who can 7 demonstrate experience living in, interacting with, or organizing diverse communities. Preferences 8 are given to those who are fluent speakers, readers, and writers of the top 5 non-English languages 9 spoken in Roseville: Hmong, Karen, Somali, Spanish, or Thai. 10 In early 2019, Roseville City Council adopted a resolution supporting RPD’s Commitment to 11 Diversity staffing program in an effort to retain Community Service Officers (CSOs), Cadets and 12 Police Reserve Officers. Given the uncertainty of when an officer vacancy will occur, the 13 Commitment to Diversity program allows RPD to promote a CSO, Cadet, or Police Reserve Officer 14 to a Full-time Police Officer, even if there isn’t a vacancy. Each year, the need to retain Cadets, 15 CSOs and Police Reserve Officers will be reviewed, and if it is deemed appropriate, then a Cadet, 16 CSO or Police Reserve is eligible to become a Roseville Police Officer. This program allows for 17 further alignment with commitment to the Government Alliance on Racial Equity (GARE). 18 In recent years, our most intensive recruitment efforts have focused on CSOs. The department hires 19 CSOs with the intention that they will become Roseville Police Officers in the future. 20 For many years, the Police Department has paired up CSOs with current police officers as mentors. 21 This has produced benefits in preparing CSOs for future careers as Roseville police officers. The 22 Police Department feels this mentoring relationship can be fully realized by implementing a 23 specialty police officer position using existing staffing and budget levels. 24 25 The CSO Liaison Officer will have daily contact with CSOs to provide mentoring, guidance on 26 performing CSO duties and prepare them for work as a Roseville police officer in the future. The 27 CSO Liaison Officer is not expected to produce the monthly work schedule, conduct annual 28 performance reviews or discipline the CSOs as the Lead CSO will continue to fill those roles. 29 30 Effective May 1, 2020, the Lead CSO positon has been reclassified in the City of Roseville job Page 1 of 2