ORANGE, COUNTY, SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT - 2016

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AttachementA 2016JAG EXPENDITURE FORD 2016-DJ-BX-0746 Grantee: City of Buena Park The grantee proposes to use the 2016 Justice Assistance Grant Program funding as follows PURPOSE AREAS: PROJECT NARRATIVE The Buena Park Police Department would like to use the JAG funding to supplement our current Police Service Aide Program. As a result of our city's budgetary constraints, we continue to have several sworn police officer positions either eliminated and or frozen. Police Service Aides will be able to assist by taking non-violent reports, assisting in traffic control and provide community service at our front counter. Some of these tasks have been completed by a sworn police officer. Using funds from this program enable us to free up sworn police officers for critical calls for service and maintain community protection in a timely manner. PROJECT GOALS The goal for this project is to maintain current Police Service Aide program. In turn, this will free up sworn police officers for responses to critical incidents in a timely manner. Police Service Aides will continue to assist I everyday tasks of taking reports for non-violent crimes and other miscellaneous duties usually handled by sworn police officers. The project will reduce the amount of reports taken by police officers and allow them to be more available for emergencies. Additionally, it will allow a reduction of response times to emergency calls for service. PROJECT IDENTIFIERS Community Policing BUDGET DETAIL AND NARRATIVE Buena Park Police Department's Police Service Aide program will utilize this additional funding to provide salaries for this program. We received some funding from a previous JAG grant process 2014-DJ-BX-0038. The deployment plan will consist of approximately 1,152 hours of staff time to assist in handling everyday tasks of investigating and writing reports for non-violent crimes and incidents usually handled by sworn officers. This is based on part-time Police Service Aides at an average pay rate of $13.57 per hour paid through the JAG grant allocation. TIMELINE AND/OR PROJECT PLAN We will continue to fund the PSA Program which will free up the time of our police officers and reduce response times to emergency calls for service in less than five minutes within the grant period. FUNDING Total Allocation: $17,181.00 Administrative Fee (9%): $1,546.29 Funds Retained by City/County: $15,634.71