SANTA ANA POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION (POA) (2015-2017)

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be provided a 30 minute paid meal period. Should an employee's meal period be interrupted, every effort shall be made to allow the affected employee to resume his /her meal period for the remaining unused time, not to exceed the 30 minute total meal period. 3.5 DETECTIVE REDEPLOYMENT All employees assigned as detectives (investigators) shall work one (1) day per month in the patrol function of the Field Operations Bureau pursuant to a schedule as determined by the Chief of Police or his designee. Once each calendar year the Chief of Police shall conduct a review of the organization of the Police Department to determine whether positions and assignments currently in the Investigations Bureau represent a deployment of resources that best enables the department to provide police services to the city. The Chief of Police may, as a result of this review, remove positions and assignments from the Investigations Bureau and assign them, and the individuals who occupy them, to other bureaus or eliminate them and assign the individuals who occupy them to other positions and assignments in the department. The annual review and any re- assignment made as a result of the review shall be completed, including the appeal thereof outlined below, sufficiently in advance of the annual patrol deployment sign -up to enable those who will be assigned to Patrol to make use of their seniority when choosing patrol shifts and days off. Any employee who is informed that he or she will be removed from the Investigations Bureau and lose the Investigations assignment pay differential may appeal to the Chief of Police. Said appeal constitutes the sole administrative appeal of the Chief's decision, shall be conducted in an informal manner and the decision of the Chief shall be final. ARTICLE IV 4.0 SALARIES 4.1 Basic Compensation Plan. There is hereby established a basic compensation plan for all members of the Santa Ana Police Officers Association who are now employed or will in the future be employed in any of the designated classifications of employment listed in this MOU and its attachments. 4.2 Salary Schedule. The basic salary schedule, attached hereto in a matrix format as Exhibit "A ", and made a part hereof as though set forth in full herein, provides numerous salary rate ranges, each comprised of five (5) steps or rates of pay. The respective rate ranges are identified by a three (3) digit number. The steps within each range are identified by the letters "A" through "E" inclusive, with the "A" step being 0