Fort Walton Beach Council agenda — 06-14-11 regular — reading text

Litschauer As a commercial service, public use facility licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration, Northwest Florida LNaOv Regional Airport IVPS) must meet federal regulatory guidelines including several security related regulations mandated by the Transportation Security Administration. These regulations require the airport to have sworn rN law enforcement personnel within a predetermined response time of the screening checkpoint per a site- specific security program. The law enforcement services are currently contracted terns Okaloosa County Sheriffs Office with the existing agreement terms ending September 30, 2011 at the conclusion of our fiscal year. You may be aware that the OCSO has proposed an unrealistic thirty percent increase In providing these services for FY11 -12 budget year and I am concerned that the airport is not receiving any added benefit. Many of the increases relate to providing each of the eleven assigned deputies an individual take home vehicle, the cost of vehicle replacement on an eight year depreciation schedule, and several layers of administrative overhead that I believe are unnecessary. The increases also reflect a " take it or leave it" philosophy by the newly elected Sheriff. Since our law enforcement needs are specific and defined by the airport mission rather than a particular law enforcement agency, I am inquiring about the potential Interest and feasibility of the Fort Walton Beach Police Department providing contractual law enforcement services for the airport in the future. Enclosed is a detailed assessment of the airport law enforcement duties, schedules, and random examples of the daily call volume for the month of May. I would greatly appreciate your perspective and thoughts of how the airport can excel in accomplishing our mission of providing reliable public safety services at the most efficient cost. I believe in empowering our law enforcement professionals and in providing all necessary support elements to ensure public safety— security and safety of our customers and employees is the number one priority— however decisions by the OCSO to politicized a needed service element and include unrelated costs is unacceptable. Our financial model does not allow for such grass inefficiencies as all airport expenses are paid entirely from airport generated revenue. Thank you in advance for any professional perspective that you can share and estimated casts of providing law enforcement services. Please feel free to call me or Jon Morris at ( 850) 651 -7160 if you have any questions or require additional information. Sincerply', Donovan, Greg AA E. Airports Director State Goad 85 IrgBa Air Force Base, Florida 32642 -1413 850) 851 -7180 FAR: ( 850) 6517164 Packet P% 145  tas.a Robert Mearns From: Sarah " Sam" Seevers [ sseevers Bcityofdestin. com] Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 2: 55 PM To: Robert Mearns Cc: Greg Kisela Subject: Police Services Mr. Mearns, The Destin City Council has authorized me to meet with you to discuss the possibility of the City of Fort Walton Beach providing police services for our city. I can meet with you anytime on Thursday or Friday of this week. Next week I can meet with you anytime on Monday. Just let me know what time is good for you and what acn n information I need to provide you with. Regards, zav 0 0 Sarah " Sam" Seevers Mayor City of Destin wt M 0rn Please Note: Florida has a very broad public records law. Most written communications to or from the City of Destin officials are public records available to the public and media upon request. Your e -mail address and communications may therefore be subject to public disclosure." Packet Pg. 146  F14 .3.e 17 CITY OF DESTIN, FLORIDA DESTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION STUDY Conducted by the Police Executive Research Forum Washington, D. C. Final Report June 17. 2002 a route FxeamvE xrs xcx roaLmn Police Executive Research Forum 1 Pacdcetpg: 147  14. 3. e CONTENTS - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .......... . ... .... .... ... .... ............. Page Page 5 THE COMMUNITY ................ ............................... CURRENT LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES FOR DESTIN .............. Page 6 ESTABLISHING A DESTIN CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT ................ Page 9 RESOURCE ALLOCATION ......... ............................... Page 12 Number of Sworn Staff ........ ............................... Page 12 Page 13 Assessing Staff Numbers through Community Population ............ Officer Availability ............ ............................... Page 14 Allocation of Sworn Personnel .. ............................... Page 15 Current Workload ............ ............................... Page 17 Distribution of Sworn Personnel .............................. Page 18 Geographic Deployment / Beat Design .......................... Page 22 Page 22 Patrol Staffing Targets ........ ............................... Page 23 Supervisory Staffing .......... ............. .................. Page 23 Civilian Staffing .............. ............................... Page 23 Facility and Equipment ........ ............................... Record Management and Dispatching ........................... Page 24 Administrative Functions .............. ....................... Page 24 Page 26 Patrol Activities / Community Oriented Policing Program ............. Traffic Enforcement .......... ............................... Page 27 Criminal Investigations ........ .............................. Page 27 Crime /Problem Analysis ....... ............................... Page 28 Education and Training ........ ............................... Page 29 Page 2 Packet Pg. 148  14. 3.0 Citizen Complaints / Procedural Questions Page 29 Inventory, Evidence and Property Storage ........................ Page 30 POLICE DEPARTMENT BUDGETS . ............................... Page 32 Annual Budgets ................... ......................... Page 32 Start- up Budgets ............. ............................... Page 35 IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY ... ............................... Page 37 CONCLUSION .................. ............................... Page 40 dbCO N APPENDICES tNd0V_ LVl MOM LT N ONNOC NN d O rCuNER Q Page 3 PackOt Pg. 149  14. 3. e EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The City of Destin, Florida contracted with Hartman and Associates, Inc. to procure the services of the Police Executive Research Forum ( PERF) to conduct a study of