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be provided a 30 minute paid meal period, Should an employee's meal period be <br />interrupted, every effort shall be made to allow the affected employee to resume his /her <br />meal period for the remaining unused time, not to exceed the 30 minute total meal period. <br />3.5 DETECTIVE REDEPLOYMENT <br />All employees assigned as detectives (investigators) shall work one (1) day per month in <br />the patrol function of the Field Operations Bureau pursuant to a schedule as determined <br />by the Chief of Police or his designee. <br />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 <br />department to provide police services to the city. <br />The Chief of Police may, as a result of this review, remove positions and assignments <br />from the Investigations Bureau and assign them, and the individuals who occupy them, to <br />other bureaus or eliminate them and assign the individuals who occupy them to other <br />positions and assignments in the department. <br />The annual review and any re- assignment made as a result of the review shall be <br />completed, including the appeal thereof outlined below, sufficiently in advance of the <br />annual patrol deployment sign -up to enable those who will be assigned to Patrol to make <br />use of their seniority when choosing patrol shifts and days off. <br />Any employee who is informed that he or she will be removed from the Investigations <br />Bureau and lose the Investigations assignment pay differential may appeal to the Chief of <br />Police. Said appeal constitutes the sole administrative appeal of the Chiefs decision, <br />shall be conducted in an informal manner and the decision of the Chief shall be final. <br />ARTICLE IV <br />4.0 SALARIES <br />4.1 Basic Compensation Plan. There is hereby established a basic compensation plan for all <br />members of the Santa Ana Police Officers Association who are now employed or will in <br />the future be employed in any of the designated classifications of employment listed in <br />this MOU and its attachments. <br />4.2 Salary Schedule. The basic salary schedule, attached hereto in a matrix format as Exhibit <br />"A ", and made a part hereof as though set forth in full herein, provides numerous salary <br />rate ranges, each comprised of five (5) steps or rates of pay. <br />The respective rate ranges are identified by a three (3) digit number. The steps within <br />each range are identified by the letters "A" through "E" inclusive, with the "A" step being <br />25E -11 <br />