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Killeen Police Department
Purpose
Focus on the crime mission
Expand community policing throughout
department
Fiscal responsibility
Improve services
3. Process Analysis
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Considerations
Review of processes, organizational structure
Review effectiveness and efficiency
Best use of resources – capital and human
Fiscal concerns
4. North Precinct
Previous Staffing
1 Assistant Chief
1 Commander
3 Lieutenants
4 Sergeants
8 units: Organized Crime, Burglary, Special
Missions, Downtown Revitalization, Traffic, K9,
Community Policing (bike); Clerical
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5. Special Investigations
Current Staffing
1 Commander
2 Lieutenants
3 Sergeants
3 Units: Burglary, Organized Crime, Special
Missions
Clerical
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Physical Move
Moved to HQs
Traffic, K9, Downtown, Community Policing
City-wide missions
1 lieutenant to SSD operations.
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Physical Move
Vacated 1311 Airport Blvd. building
Save maintenance costs
Organized Crime and Vice to downtown
Special Missions Unit to downtown
Consolidated Records to HQs
Reduced staffing needs
Crash reports online
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Physical Move
Close 24-hour NP Desk (declining usage)
Install call box for citizens with no cellular
Change Precinct to Division
Eliminate one Assistant Chief position
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Impact on Patrol
Specialized positions assigned to shifts
Downtown Unit officers can continue to work
downtown
Specialized enforcement details when needed
Partnership: patrol officers and specialists
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Impact on Patrol
Shift staffing based on analysis of call volume.
Increase to Patrol would allow for:
• Reduced response times to calls
• Reduced call per officer ratio;
• Reduced report per officer ratio;
• Increased patrol presence throughout the city;
• Increased time for officers to conduct patrol-level
investigations;
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Impact on Patrol
• Proactive patrol activities and community policing
• Decreased overtime
• Special details to address problem areas,
community complaints.
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Killeen Police Department
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