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ATTACHMENT A 2012-DJ-BX-0057 City: Garden Grove The City of Garden Grove proposes to use the 2012 Justice Assistance Grant funding as follows: Purpose Areas: Law Enforcement; Corrections and Community Corrections Program Narrative: The Police Department will use 2012 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. The recent elimination of redevelopment agencies in California drastically worsened the City of Garden Grove's current and projected financial condition. The loss of millions of agency dollars caused the City to immediately implement additional budget cuts, and further cuts will be implemented in FY 2012-13. Contracting out jail services allows officers to spend the majority of their time in the field, which is especially critical during dire financial times when no new officers will be hired. Goals of the project: 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 project: Contracting out jail services allows the Police Department to concentrate much more of its efforts on community safety rather than expending energy and resources on jail operations. Prior to the contract, officers would spend approximately two hours processing and transporting an arrestee. If the arrestee required medical clearance, that process could be extended by several hours. Now, sworn police officers complete preliminary paperwork on the arrestee and return to their field duties in as little as 15 minutes while the jailers complete the fingerprinting, photographing, transporting, etc. procedures. This increases the officer's availability to handle additional calls for services. In 2011, the jailers processed 6,101 arrestees, saving sworn officers approximately 12,202 hours that would have been spent processing arrestees. Project 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. 2012-DJ-BX-2532 20A-21 Page 14 of 30