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Police chief briefs council on staffing gains, telephone reporting unit and downtown surveillance cameras
Summary
Chief Salter presented a high-level overview of department staffing, recruitment improvements after a pay raise, the telephone reporting unit, downtown camera network and animal-shelter upgrades; the department reported 11,055 calls for service since Jan. 1 and other operational metrics.
Chief of Police Salter gave a detailed overview of the Paris Police Department at the July 28 council meeting, covering organizational structure, staffing, recruitment progress, and several operational initiatives.
Chief Salter said the department is currently down seven officers department-wide, improved from being 21 officers short 18 months earlier after a council-approved pay raise helped attract applicants. He reported that patrol responded to 11,055 calls for service since Jan. 1 and that a newly created telephone-reporting unit and an online reporting system have…
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