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Once each calendar year the Chief of Police shall conduct a review of the organization of <br /> the Police Department to determine whether positions and assignments currently in the <br /> Investigations Bureau represent a deployment of resources that best enables the department <br /> to provide police services to the city. Effective the first day of the month following City <br /> Council approval of this 2024-2027 MOU, the Chief of Police on a monthly basis shall <br /> conduct a review of the organization of the Police Department to determine whether <br /> positions and assignments currently in the Investigations Bureau represents a deployment <br /> of resources that best enables the department to provide police services to the city. <br /> The Chief of Police may,as a result of this review, remove positions and assignments from <br /> the Investigations Bureau and assign them, and the individuals who occupy them,to other <br /> bureaus or eliminate them and assign the individuals who occupy them to other positions <br /> and assignments in the department. <br /> The annual review and any re-assignment made as a result of the review shall be completed, <br /> including the appeal thereof outlined below, sufficiently in advance of the annual patrol <br /> deployment sign-up to enable those who will be assigned to Patrol to make use of their <br /> seniority when choosing patrol shifts and days off. <br /> Any employee who is informed that they will be removed from the Investigations Bureau <br /> and lose the Investigations assignment pay differential may appeal per Article 16 to the <br /> Chief of Police. This appeal constitutes the sole administrative appeal of the Chiefs <br /> decision, shall be conducted in an informal manner and the decision of the Chief shall be <br /> final. <br /> 3.5 Field Operations shifts and requests for time off shall be based on seniority in job <br /> classification and rank held within the employee's assigned Bureau. <br /> 7 <br />