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ACTIVITY SUMMARY COMPARISON 1991 TO 19)2 The uttached Monthlv Aciiv'it}' Report is for December 1992. Since the re'^/ort retlccts "year to date" totals for the current year and the previous year, it can be used to compare total reported crime and other police activities between 1991 and 1992. The purpose of this memo is to draw some meaningful conclusions from these statistics. It can be used to compare year to year, or city to city. In 1991 the Orono Police Department had 15 1/2 authorized police officer positions. The nine btisic contract positions included a Chief, three Lieutenants who rotated as street supeI^'isors, and six uniformed patrol officers. Addition.ally, there were four positions for primary patrol of Spring Park and 2 1/2 positions for primary patrol of : .ong Lake. Dunng the year one lieutenant resigned in March and that position was not filled in 1991. The Chief retired in June pulling another lieutenant off the street to be "Acting Chief until I was hired in August of 1991. We were short handed on the street during 1991. In 1992 the Orono Police Depanment had 15 authorized police officer positions. David McNichols was hired to replace the lieutenant who resigned in 1991. He was hired in March and completed his field training program in June. We also hired nvo additional part-time officers (John Schoenhoff and Scott Boris) to be used to reduce over time costs .if regular officers. They were hired in March and also completed their field training progra V in June. The new officers brought the depanment up to a full strength of 15 full time officers and 3 part time officers fully trained and ready to serve by June ol 1992. We used many patrol hours the first six months of 1992 training these three new officers. The nine basic contract positions in 1992 included a Chief, two lieutenants, a full- time" investigator (Jim Morowezynski who would work a uniformed shift once in a while when needed), six uniformed full-time patrol officers and the three part-time uiucers. Additionally, Spring Park maintained the additional patrol strength of four full-time positions. Long Lake reduced their additional patrol coverage from 2.5 officers^or 100 hours per week for the whole year of 1991 to 1.75 officers or 40 hours per week the first 3 of 1992 and 80 hours per v/etk the last 9 months of 1992. That was approximately a 30% reduction in additional uniformed patrol. (Long Lake has kept the 2 officer coverage since March of 1992 so they will have slightly more coverage in 1993 than they did in 1992, but less than what they had in 1991.) This background about the staffing levels of our department and the number of additional officers on patrol in Long Lake and Spring Park was necessary to help understand the changes in the various activity levels between 1991 and 1992. Remember that these statistics reflect "reported" crime and it is believed that "actual" crime is committed more often, but is not always reported by the victim to the police. Part one crimes are eight serious crimes chosen by the FBI to group together. Comparing 1991 to 1992, serious crime repons increased in Orono and Long Lake, stayed the same in Spring Park and decreased slightly in Minnetonka Beach. 'Fhere was a dramatic increase in Long Lake from 58 repons in 1991 to 103 reports in 1992 or a 77.8% jneret^e in serious crime reports. This could be a result of the decreased patrol coverage froni -.5 officers in 1991 to 1.75 in 1992. In all four cities combined, pan one crime increased from 314 reports in 1991 to 375 reports in 1992 or an overall increase of 13%.