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DIVISION SUMMARY FY 2021-22 BUDGET

Function Department Division Account
PUBLIC SAFETY POLICE PATROL SERVICES 01-31-03

DIVISION DESCRIPTION:
The Police Patrol Services Activity provides the first response to criminal activity and calls for police services. This Activity serves to deter criminal activity

through observation and inspection. The Patrol Services Activity also regulates traffic; enforces federal, state, and local laws and ordinances; investigates
vehicle accidents; and responds to all types of service calls including the preliminary investigation of reported or suspected crimes. The Patrol Services Activity
is supervised by one Commander, one Lieutenant, and four Police Sergeants. This Activity, staffed by twenty-three Police Officers and four Corporals, operates
twenty-four hours per day, seven days a week.

CITYWIDE CORE TENANT(S) SUPPORTED:
• Quality of Life: The City of Benbrook endeavors to implement legislation, policies, projects, and services to ensure our community remains a great city, and to
enhance quality of life for current and future generations of residents.
• Character: The City of Benbrook will govern with attentiveness, compassion, creativity, dedication, dependability, discretion, enthusiasm, fairness, flexibility,
honesty, humility, resourcefulness, respect, thoroughness, wisdom, and without bias.
• Services, Programs, and Projects: The City of Benbrook will provide services, programs, and projects that enhance quality of life.

DIVISION GOALS:
• To provide thorough and complete patrol of the City.
• To enforce all laws and ordinances governing the City in a fair and impartial manner.
• To respond as quickly as possible to requests for police assistance.
• To investigate each reported offense as completely as possible minimizing time spent by the Criminal Investigation Section.

DIVISION OBJECTIVES:
• To monitor expenditures and remain within + or - 5% of the Activity's budget allocation.
• To maintain an average response time of 2.5 minutes or less on all calls for police assistance.

• To keep Part I crimes under 30 per thousand.
• To keep Part II crimes to under 50 per thousand.
• To maintain an active part-time force with at least two members.

DIVISION MEASUREMENTS: ACTUAL ACTUAL ESTIMATED PROJECTED

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22
Percent of Budget Expended 98.1% 95.4% 100.0% 100.0%
Average Response Time in Minutes 2.72 2.71 2.83 2.75
Number of Traffic Accidents 272 262 330 290
Part I Crimes Per Thousand 17.66 17.57 18.47 17.50
151
Part II Crimes Per Thousand 47.58 44.94 34.74 42.50
Number Part-time Officers 2 2 2 2