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Police, fire and sheriff outline trade-offs: hiring, civilianization, station coverage and security contracting
Summary
Department leaders explained how recent hiring pushed staffing toward charter goals, how civilianization has been limited by midyear freezes, and how proposed security contracting or deep interim cuts would force layoffs or station closures; police described a PERF pilot at Ingleside to shift patrol time toward community policing.
Police, fire and sheriff departments used committee hearings on June 18 to walk supervisors through granular trade-offs between personnel, civilianization and service coverage.
Police: Chief Chi Fong said the department—s budget remains dominated by personnel costs (about 90%) and that the department has reduced overtime and slowed academy hiring in the short term. He emphasized a recent surge in recruits that brought sworn staffing near the charter-mandated level and described the PERF (Police Executive Research Forum) pilot at Ingleside Station, where the department is testing crime-analytic staffing and rebalancing patrol time toward community problem-solving. Ken…
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