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ATTACHMENT A 2013 -DJ -BX -1065 City: Garden Grove The City of Garden Grove proposes to use the 2013 Justice Assistance Grant funding as follows: Purpose Areas: Law Enforcement; Corrections and Community Corrections Program Narrative: The Police Department will use 2013 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 elimination of the Garden Grove Redevelopment Agency last year continues to affect the City's current and projected financial condition. The loss of millions of agency dollars caused the City to immediately implement additional budget cuts, which will remain in effect for the duration of FY 2013 -14. 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 proieet: Contracting out jail services allows the Police Department to concentrate much more of its efforts on cormnwiity safety rather than expending energy and resources on jail operations. Prior to the contract, officers would spend approximately two hours processing and transporting an arrest". If the arrostee 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, eto. procedures. This increases the officer's availability to handle additional calls for services. In 2012, the jailers processed 6,492 arrestees, saving sworn officers approximately 12,984 hours that would have been spent processing arrestees, Project identifiers: See JAG Identifiers (attached) Cormmninity 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 snore quickly. 2013 -DJ -BX -1065 Page 16 of 29 20D -24