Fiscal Year 2013-2015 Special Budget Meeting

Dan Lindheim Page 3 OPD - Civilianization KEY ISSUES AND IMPACTS Progress The Department has taken steps toward civilianization by planning for the supplanting of the Police Communications Supervisor positions, the Patrol Desk Officer Positions and the Internal Affairs Division*s intake officers and supervisors. The four swom Police Cormnunications Supervisor and the six Patrol Desk Officer positions were specifically written in the OPOA MOU as positions that will not be civiHanized until the completion of an unmediate dispute resolution procedure. The Police Department is plarming to engage in the immediate dispute resolution process with the OPOA after July 1,2009. If the Police Department succeeds with the immediate dispute resolution, civilian dispatchers will assume the duties of the swom sergeants in the Communications Division and the Police Services Technicians (PST) will assimie the duties of the Patrol Desk Officers. In preparation for the transition, the Communications Division has already begun to train the potential civilian supervisors by sending them to the Peace Officers Standards and Training ^OST) supervisory course, as well as other in-house training opportunities. Several PSTs have aheady been trained on Patrol Desk Officer fimctions and can assume those assignments immediately. The Internal Affairs Division (LAD) is divided into the Administrative Section and the Investigative Section. The Administrative Section consists of swom intake officers who receive the initial statement and collect initial evidence from the complainant. The Department plans to supplant the swom intake officer positions and the swom sergeant supervisor position within the Administrative Section with civilian investigators. The civilianization working group for IAD is a planning committee composed of members from the Oakland PoHce Department and the Citizen's Police Review Board (CPRB). The working group meets twice a month on the plan to transition civilian personnel into the swom and sergeant positioris within the LAD Administrative Section. Currently, the working group is reviewing the City Charter to identify potential conflicts and determine the overall cost of the transition. The next step for the working group is to meet with the Office of Persormel Resource Management (OPRM) to reclassify the intake officer and supervisor positions. The anticipated timeline for transition is one to two years. The Police Department processes crime scenes by utilizing both swom and non-sworn evidence technicians. The processing of crime scenes can be just as effectively performed by non-sworn Police Evidence Technicians and the three swom officers currently serving as evidence technicians will be assigned to other duties. For over 20 years, the Department has used non- sworn professional staff to process forensic evidence at crime scenes. Many of the persormel assigned to these duties have developed high levels of expertise in the field, thereby improving the quality of criminal investigations. At the same time, the Department has had trouble recmiting officers to serve in the few remaining swom evidence technician positions available; the average tenure of these officers in the assignment is relatively short. The OPOA has abeady agreed to allow the Department to implement this change to its bargaining unit work. In order to Item: Public Safety Comte. December 2,2008