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4/ <br />Date: <br />To: <br />From: <br />Subject: <br />May 19, 1995 <br />Orono City Council <br />Chief Sullivan <br />May 22, 1995 Monthly Police Report <br />V;-. <br />*V'’ <br />* <> <br />J.X <br />During April, we have initiated a new approach to providing <br />police service to the contract cities and to providing <br />information at their monthly meetings. We hope to become more <br />responsive to their problems and concerns and to increase the use <br />of crime prevention and community oriented policing concepts to <br />address those problems. <br />We intend to solicit input from the contract city councils, <br />residents, and business owners to help us to establish goals and <br />objectives. Then we want to focus our efforts on achieving these <br />prioritized goals during the month and report back to the council <br />not just crime statistics, but also what our efforts have been <br />and what results we have accomplished to meet the established <br />goals. <br />This new approach was first explained to the Mayors at the <br />Police Service Quarterly Meeting held on April 26, 1995. The <br />mayors expressed approval of our efforts to become more <br />responsive and to use goal setting to achieve results. This <br />concept was further explained in a "New Approach to Contract <br />Cities Meetings” memo dated May 5, 1995. I further explained the <br />concept and solicited input from Long Lake at a Council Workshop <br />on May 8, 1995 and also to Spring Park at the monthly police <br />commission meeting on May 9, 1995. <br />Some individualized goals were established for both Long <br />Lake and Spring Park. Long Lake wanted to increase the use of <br />the bicycle patrol and foot patrol for community oriented <br />policing in city parks and the business areas. Spring Park <br />wanted more drug enforcement during the early part of this summer <br />in the parking lots at the Minnetonka Mist and Lord Fletchers. <br />And, of course, Minnetonka Beach wanted continued traffic <br />enforcement along Cty. Rd. 15. <br />I shall continue to meet each month with the contract cities <br />to establish goals. I will then give my officers this information <br />and use the Corporals to focus our patrol efforts where the city <br />councils have asked us to focus that month. (If any of you have <br />areas you want us to focus on, you should inform Mr. Moorse so <br />that we can include those goals into our patrol of Orono.) <br />This is an exciting new approach to increase not only <br />responsiveness but also effectiveness.