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Englewood Police detail staffing, technology investments and plans to quantify alternative-policing spending
Summary
Chief Dave Jackson briefed the Budget Advisory Committee on staffing levels, rising training and equipment costs, Flock Safety license-plate-reader use, and plans to provide clearer metrics showing how sales-tax funds for alternative policing are spent.
Chief Dave Jackson told the Budget Advisory Committee that the Englewood Police Department is actively rebuilding sworn staffing and pursuing several technology and program changes — including body-worn cameras, in-car computers and continued use of license-plate‑reading technology — while working with the committee to better quantify how voter-directed alternative-policing funds are used.
“I've inherited a really, really good police department. It's a great problem to have,” Chief Dave Jackson said during his first presentation to the committee since taking the job in November.
Jackson said the department listed about 35 full‑time sworn positions and reported roughly 32 currently filled; the department swore in one officer the morning of the meeting and expected additional academy graduates in the coming weeks. He reported personnel-savings returns of roughly $463,000 to the fund in 2024 and said the department returned about $500,000 total to the General Fund after year‑end adjustments.
On crime and operations, Jackson…
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