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-3- respond to a "door knock". There is nobody here to answer our business line. There is nobody .here to.-.assist .(and this does happen) the panic stricken individual who wants to report a crime or accident or fire. Although we do have a phone outside of the Police Department for some reason or another, folks tend not to want to use this facility. Maybe _ it's because it's labeled "Emergency"? I feel it is so wrong for us to continue with this closed door policy. 'Round the clock dispatchers can handle many duties above and beyond actual dispatching. Typing of endless reports that are required today - handling minor problems for those that seek assist. Prisoner incarnation (we must halve somebody on the premises to hold a prisoner). Today we pay Mayfield Heights for this service. We also pay Hayfield Heights some $1,200.00 a year for answering service (LEEDS) after we "shut down" for the night. We pay another $3,600.00 for outside dispatching. Telephone lines and additi- naI equipment runs even more of our taxpayers dollars. The elimination of these services, plus departing Gould's salary, can offset the cost of hiring dispatchers. We are one of very few area communities closed to the public evening and weekends. We want to keep our patrolmen on the road PATROLLING: Time and again I've heard people say they have "seen our cruisers parked outside the department" - and question "why".` Who~will type up the endless reports now required by law? Crime has increased whether w*e accept it or not. Police Chief Shortle reports: TO: Mayor Robert G. Beebe • FROM: Chief William Shortle Sub~ectt Information. ~,, , ` Per your memo dated January 6, 1977 I submit the following figures: (A) Police Responses (Total Calls) - 1975 - 3, 571 1976 - 3,997_ + 421 (B) TOTAL BASE STATION TRANSMISSIONS (Does not include equipment checks and non-business transmissions), 1975 - 3,876 1976 - 4,719 + 843 (C) TOTAL TICKETS ISSUED (All Categories) 1975 - 2,417 ' 1976 - 2,373 - 44 •~ (D) TO'~AL DETECTIVE INVESTIGATIONS 1975 - 260, , 1976 -; 363 + 103 ~`~. - (E )' TOTAL MONIES THROUGH COURT PROCEDURES 1975 - $92,843.00 ; . ' 19'76 = $87,829.00 - $5,01.4.40 NOTE: AS NEAR AS I CAN DETERMINE I WAS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN FIFTEEN TO , EIGHTEEN INVESTIGATIONS AND%OR-'ARRESTS IN'SUCH THINGS AS: FELONIOUS ASSAULTS;'NA$tCOTICS AND/OR TRAFFICKING; SERIOUS VANDALISM; HARRASSING AND/OR OBSCENE 'HONE CALLS; PRACTICING PSYCHOLOGY WITH- OUT A LICENSE; BARRICADED GUNMAN; DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND RESISTING ARREST. I i~r1ILL, HOWEVER, POINT OUT. THAT I AM INVOLVED IN ALL INVESTIGATIONS WITH THE DETECTIVE BUREAU.