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A TT ACHMENT A Goal: To ensure the safety of the officers tasked with providing law enforcement services to our city, and to ensure the community receives law enforcement services in a timely manner. Obiectives: The objective is to maintain a full staff of civilian report writers to assist with the everyday tasks of reporting non-violent crimes. This will allow field officers to focus more on the front-line of protecting our population, and to reduce response time to calls for service. Quantifiable Performance Measures: We intend to measure our performance by analyzing our response times to calls for service. It is our intention to provide response to emergency calls within five minutes, and response to non- emergency calls within fifteen minutes of the receipt of the call. Once we hire and maintain a full staff of civilian report writers, we will be able to examine data to determine whether this expansion of personnel is assisting us in obtaining that goal. Funding: Total Allocation: $33,665.00 PROACT Contribution: $16,327.53 Administrative Fee (1.5%): $504.98 Funds Retained by City: $16,832.50 Costa Mesa City: The City of Costa Mesa proposes to use the 2007 Justice Assistance Grant funding as follows: Problem Statement: Detectives currently deploy in the field a significant part of their time for the purposes of proactive surveillance for in-progress crimes and monitoring the movements of suspected violent criminals. Presently, detectives communicate among themselves and with other field personnel, such as patrol officers, via handheld 800 MHz radios. The battery life of the handheld radio is limited and often will go dead part way through a lengthy surveillance. Further, the signal of the handheld radios are often not as strong as the 80 MHz radios hardwired into vehicles. To avoid the potentially dangerous loss of communications of the handheld radios, the Costa Mesa Police Department will utilize these funds to acquire three 800 MHz radios to be hard wired installed in three detective vehicles and covert style antennas, providing unlimited battery power and strong signals to sustain clear and vital communications. Goal: To ensure proper and safe communications is sustained throughout lengthy surveillances by equipping three detective vehicles with 800 MHz radios permanently installed into the vehicles, including three covert style antennas. 2007-DJ-BX-0523 Page 6 of 19