11 Police Officer Allocation Study

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when insufficient staffing is available is significant and should be avoided if at all possible. Minimum staffing should be maintained at six (including the supervisor) for the present. School Resource Officers Also assigned to the Patrol Division are six School Resource Officers. These officers provide protection and first response to any form of violence in the schools. The salary and benefits for all six of these officers is paid in full by the respective school districts and the department provides equipment, training, and supervision. Due to the increasing violence in the schools nationwide, most jurisdictions provide School Resource Officers in High Schools and in some Junior Highs depending on the level of need. School districts often engage in some form of cost sharing as is done here. Paris is extremely lucky to have the multiple school districts participating at such a high level. This indicates a level of trust and cooperation not usually found in many jurisdictions. Chapter 5 ANALYSIS OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION OPERATIONS AND STAFFING The staffing of an investigations unit is much more difficult to justify empirically and is largely a matter of choice. Each investigation is different and there has been little critical analysis and research done nationally on staffing the criminal investigations function. While you can count calls for service and time on call for patrol calls, it is much more difficult for detectives. Even when no field "detective" work is done, cases where patrol officers have made "In the Act" arrests must be prepared for filing. These are time consuming operations and must be absolutely correct for prosecution. While every crime is important to the citizen who reports it, conducting a detailed investigation on every case cannot be accomplished with the resources given most police agencies. Most police Page 32