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Lake Area SWAT team, Safe and Sober/TZD enforcement, Crime Prevention Specialist, Child Safety <br />Seat Inspector, and Commercial Vehicle Weight Enforcement and as instructors for Citizens Police <br />Academy and other community programs. <br />Another advantage for OPD is officer safety. Across the nation officers are under attack. In the last 3 <br />days, four officers have been victims of these brutal and unprovoked attacks. The recent attacks on <br />police officers and the ambush/killing of officers in their squad cars has a huge mental impact on <br />officers. When compared to other Lake Area departments, Orono PD has a three officer minimum <br />during the overnight hours, whereas the majority of other smaller neighboring departments only have <br />one officer on during the overnight hours. <br />With the main stream media and politics aiding in the negativity toward law enforcement it is expected <br />that enrollment in the law enforcement field will continue to see reduced numbers and with fewer <br />qualified applicants we will continue to see larger departments recruiting officers from smaller agencies <br />that have "more opportunities" and higher wages/benefits. The City Council should have a situational <br />awareness of these issues. <br />How many officers does a department need? <br />The article only provided statistics for jurisdictions with more than 50,000 in population. The chart <br />below has information from those agencies in the Lake Area. Most of those populations are under the <br />10,000 in population. The last column is based upon number of officers per 10,000 population so for <br />those less than 10,000, the factors were doubled to have a comparable number with the others. <br />Population also covers those departments that serve multiple communities. <br />0 Page 2 <br /># of <br /># per <br />Department <br />Officers <br />Population <br />10,000 <br />Medina <br />10 <br />5,887 <br />17.2 <br />Wayzata <br />12 <br />6,021 <br />20 <br />South Lake <br />15 <br />12,010 <br />12.5 <br />Minnetrista <br />11 <br />9,125 <br />12.1 <br />West Hennepin <br />10 <br />5,453 <br />18.5 <br />Department of Public Safety <br />Rogers <br />18 <br />12,000 <br />15 <br />Deephaven <br />7 <br />3,747 <br />18.9 <br />Corcoran <br />16 <br />5,512 <br />29 <br />Orono <br />27 <br />19,600 <br />13.7 <br />0 Page 2 <br />