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<br /> <br /> <br />COPCAB Minutes <br /> <br />March 8, 2018 <br />6:30pm-8:00pm <br /> <br />Members Present: Jerry Thornton, Kim Karns, Roger Arnold, Jan Bolerjack, John Lindsey <br />Staff Present: Chris Partman, Chief Linton <br />Guest: <br /> <br /> <br /> Minutes for 2/8/18 meeting approved as corrected <br /> <br /> Chief’s update: <br /> Staffing – Since last month we lost a police candidate out of background and <br />received 1 more resignation. <br /> We have 6 in training and 3 in background <br /> Eight employees on light duty. <br /> Only 61 officers on full duty right now <br /> Recruiting is a high priority right now <br /> Only 16 out of 19 civilian employees currently on duty <br /> Hopefully, late March and early April they will be ready to hit the <br />street. <br /> Department news <br /> Four Sgts. and two hopeful Sgts. in leadership training in Lakewood. <br />This is one week each month. <br /> Support Division is really busy, 1,130 public records requests already <br />this year. <br /> Special Operations is still working with the homelessness issues and <br />has put together a homeless task force. TIS has put together an app <br />for use with homeless issues. The CLO and CPT teams have been <br />busy up at Foster HS. They are also developing cultural awareness <br />training for the entire dept. Have been doing a lot of emphasis at the <br />Villages at South Station and also at the mall. <br /> Professional Standards is working to get online reporting up and <br />running for TPD. Implementing an internal investigation tracking <br />software called AIM. Both should be going online with this sometime <br />in May. <br /> Questions: <br /> Does the rape kit law affect TPD? It does not affect Tukwila nearly as <br />hard as other agencies because we keep more up to date and are a <br />smaller department. <br /> <br /> <br />