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12/20/99 Interoffice Memo If we include a provision in the Roseville Liquor Ordinance that license holders should confiscate illegal Identification cards and then state that when they confiscate illegal Identification cards they must report that to the police we will see a sharp increase in police calls. I do not believe that there will be 897 such calls to the police. That number would turn out be our seventh highest call category in 1999. Only false alarms (2223), public assist (2515), medicais (1660), property damage accidents (1273), theft calls (1069), and suspicious persons calls (1044) would be higher. In the vast majority of incidents, the underage purchaser will run away. There will be the need for a basic report and taking of evidence. The report will have a follow-up. If there is a real name for the Identification card, that person will be contacted. Without a suspect stating they were given someone else's Identification card, the real owner will likely deny giving the identification card to someone to buy alcohol. They will more likely state they didn't know their identification card was missing or say it was lost or stolen and thank us to send it back to them. The average time spent per call in 1999 was about 35 minutes. Multiply 35 minutes times 897 possible calls equals 523 hours. That amount of hours combined with the rest of an officer's usual committed time would equal a work year. Looking at the potential call impact another way; in 1999, we responded to 22,819 calls using 27 street officers. That equals about 845 calls per officer. If there truly were to be 897 additional calls in the coming year that would be at least one officer's worth of activity. Conclusion We do need to educate Roseville liquor license holders and Roseville citizens that using false or altered identification to try to purchase alcoholic beverages is illegal and carries penalties including driver's license suspensions. We do need to encourage Roseville liquor license holders to attempt to confiscate illegally used Identification cards and to call the police. That will be a worthy goal of a publicity campaign. Calls will increase to some extent. I do not believe we will see a 4% increase in overall police calls due to false Identification card calls. I believe the calls will increase somewhat and then go back down when potential underage purchasers of alcoholic beverages realize they will be detained/apprehended and at least lose their Identification cards. I believe we can handle the temporary increase. Of note is that we were two officers short in 1999. We will be fully staffed (on paper) later this year. We will have four new officers in field training this summer. When they are assigned to the street, they will lessen the impact of potential additional calls.