ORANGE, COUNTY OF, SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT (6) - 2011

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ATTACHMENT A 2011-DJ-BX-2532 City: Garden Grove The City of Garden Grove proposes to use the 2011 Justice Assistance Grant funding as follows: Purpose Areas: Law Enforcement; Corrections and Community Corrections Program Narrative: The Police Department will use 2011 JAG funds to pay a portion of its jail services contract. The jail contract saves thousands of department man-hours and is a key component for maximizing police officer time out on the streets. The Garden Grove Police Department has one of the lowest ratios of officers per capita of any city its size in California, yet the Department must still struggle to keep staffing levels from decreasing. Garden Grove's cun•ent and projected financial condition prohibits the Department from hiring personnel, and additional budget cuts are being implemented in FY 2011-12. Therefore, contracting out jail services provides an alternative solution, which enables the Department to maintain officer time in the field without hiring additional Personnel. Goals of the proiect: Create operational efficiencies in Patrol that would generate the equivalent productive hours of up to seven additional Police Officers that could be used to augment patrol operations. Strategies to be used for proiect: Contracting out jail services allows the Police Department to concentrate much more of its efforts on community safety instead of expending energy and resources on jail operations. The jail contract allows sworn police officers to process arrestees and return to their field duties in as little as 15 minutes. This in turn will increase their availability to handle additional calls for services. Proiect identifiers: See JAG Identifiers (attached) Community Policing; Detention (Non-residential). The Garden Grove Police Department implemented the Community Policing philosophy many years ago. Contracting out staffing of the detention facility facilitates that philosophy, by enabling patrol officers to return to their beat areas more quickly. 2011-DJ-BX-2532 Page 16 of 38 20A-24