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Sunnyvale officials defend combined public-safety model as staffing priorities shift
Summary
City public-safety leaders described Sunnyvale's integrated police-fire-EMS model, defended its flexibility and said recent budget additions added three sworn public-safety officer positions amid continued recruitment and training efforts.
Sunnyvale public-safety leaders outlined how the city's integrated public-safety model — in which sworn officers are trained across police, fire and emergency medical services — supplies flexibility for responses and helped justify adding three sworn positions in the most recent budget.
Chief Pho Ngo, who led the presentation, and City Manager Tim Kirby said the model allows officers to respond across disciplines, which officials and the mayor said reduces latency when incidents require multiple skills. "Every officer immediately becomes a fire officer," Mayor Larry Klein said, describing how officers carry turnout gear so they can respond to both medical and fire incidents before…
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