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POLICE DEPARTMENT

DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION:
The Chief of Police is responsible for the overall leadership, management, and supervision of all the activities of the police
department. The Administrative Division is also responsible for the successful attainment of goals and objectives throughout the
department including, but not limited to, traffic safety and regulation, uniformed patrol, community services and education, crime
control, regional animal control, regional public safety dispatch and jail, and facility and equipment maintenance.

DEPARTMENT GOALS:
1. Continue to meet the service needs of a growing community with value driven, customer-focused, and transparent style of
policing designed to improve the quality of life in Keller.
2. Continue creative funding mechanisms with the regional approach to lessen the tax burden on our residents.
3. Provide quality leadership that fosters excellence, integrity, and continuous improvement designed to retain and reward valued
team members.
4. Promote a culture centered around E to the 4th Power. The four core values include Empathy, Edification, Enthusiasm, and
Excellence.
5. The Keller Police will continue the partnership with the Keller Independent School District, local private schools, and the Town
of Westlake to provide a heightened level of security and safety for all school campuses within the City of Keller and Town of
Westlake jurisdictions.
6. Promote the four central principles of Procedural Justice both internally and externally: 1) Fairness: Treating people with
dignity and respect. 2) Voice: Giving individuals "voice" during encounters. 3) Impartiality: Being neutral and absence of bias in
decision making. 4) Transparency: Conveying trustworthy motives.
7. Justly apply local, state, and federal law.

DEPARTMENT OBJECTIVES:
1. Continue our focus on proactive crime prevention measures through our full-time community service officer.
2. Work with the Keller Crime Control and Prevention District to efficiently and effectively manage the sales tax funds to provide
technology, vehicles, equipment, payback the debt for the jail/animal adoption center capital project, and FFE replacement
account.
3. Manage, monitor, and continuously seek to enhance services through our long-term agreements to provide regional
communications, jail, and animal services to the cities of Southlake and Colleyville, jail and animal services to the City of
Roanoke, and police services, including communications, jail and animal services, to the Town of Westlake.
4. During the school year the Police Department's goal is to continue our school campus patrol progam. These patrols will
provide a heightened level of security and safety for the staff and students of these campuses, thus enhancing their educational
experience.
5. The Patrol and Traffic Divisions will utilize the directed patrol based on our crime and crash analysis in an effort to reduce
traffic accidents in locations with high incidents of crime and accident occurrences. Utilize the Traffic Data Collection technology
to provide enhanced traffic and speed data that will assist in determining future traffic enforcement efforts.
6. Continue the professional development of all personnel.
FY 2023-24
FY 2021-22 FY 2022-23 FY 2022-23 Adopted
SERVICES PROVIDED Actual Budget YE Proj. Budget
Total Part I Major Crimes 328 340 332 340
Crime Rate 7.12 7.5 7.12 7.29
Traffic Safety:
Reported Traffic Collisions 273 250 254 250
Timely Service:
Priority 1 Response Times 3:53 4:00 3:54 4:00
(Goal is in 5 minutes or less)

Total arrest made 523 800 600 800
Total cases investigated 838 1,800 1,480 1,500
Alarm Responses 1,705 2,000 1,900 2,000
Total Calls For Service 73,298 75,000 78,000 78,000

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