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San Ramon Police: calls for service jump as department reports 2024 statistics and new programs
Summary
Police Chief and division captains presented the San Ramon Police Department 2024 annual report, reporting near-80,000 calls for service, growth in community-generated calls and new programs including an organized retail-theft team and drone-first-responder flights; council extended the meeting and asked staff to return with follow-ups.
The San Ramon Police Department presented its 2024 annual report to the City Council on April 8, detailing program expansions, crime and traffic statistics and operational challenges as community-generated calls for service rose sharply.
A department update opened with an organizational overview: the department has 86 authorized positions, the chief said, and is organized into an operations bureau and an administrative bureau overseen by Captains John Cranford and Becky Chestnut. "We actually have 86, because I'm not on there," the chief said, underscoring staffing levels the department uses for planning.
Captain Becky Chestnut described two program highlights: a Behavioral Health Response partnership with the fire department that diverts certain mental-health calls to fire first response when clinically appropriate, and a major outside audit and subsequent overhaul of the department's property-and-evidence operations. Chucking the audit led to upgrades including refrigerated evidence storage, a…
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