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Mobile booking unit shortens officer downtown downtime; convention center funded downtown unit last year
Summary
Sheriff Hall told the council the mobile booking unit—run by the sheriff’s office and used by Metro Police—reduces officer booking time downtown from about 1 hour 50 minutes to roughly 20 minutes. He said the convention center funded the downtown unit last year and the unit is staffed by seven people on ten‑hour shifts for busy nights.
At the April 18 Budget & Finance meeting Sheriff Hall described the sheriff’s office‑run mobile booking unit used by the Metro Police Department and explained its purpose, staffing and funding.
Sheriff Hall said booking downtown could take nearly two hours of officer time in the past and that the mobile booking unit reduces that downtime dramatically by processing arrestees at the scene or at an event. “We're reducing their time it takes to book a person from an hour and 50 minutes now to 20 minutes,” he said. Under the mobile model, officers hand custody…
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