HomeMy WebLinkAboutRes 0378 - Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Program
WASHINGTON
RESOLUTION NO 378
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TUKWILA POLICE
DEPARTMENT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FEDERAL
LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANaE PROGRAM ADMINIS-
TERED BY THE PLANNING AND COMMUNITY
AFFAIRS AGENCY OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON,
RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
That the City of Tukwila, through its Police Department,
is hereby authorized to participate in the Law Enforcement Assistance
Administration Program administered by the Planning and Community
Affairs Agency of the State of Washington, with participation by
the City of Tukwila to be as outlined in Exhibit A attached hereto
and incorporated herein by reference.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Tukwila,
Washington, and approved by the Mayor at a regular meeting thereof
this 9th day of October 1973.
Frank Todd Mayor
Shirlee Kinney City Clerk
of Tukwila.
1. Project: Southcenter Police Cadet Patrol
a. State Approved Problem Statement: h1.3.0
Personnel resources and their management are inadequate to
meet the demands placed upon law enforcement agencies.
b. Goal:
To provide a highly visible, aggressive police patrol in the
Southcenter shopping complex, aimed primarily at controlling
juvenile crime and reducing the incidence of index crime.
c. Objective:
To reduce the incidence of juvenile larceny by 33% and return
a substantial .number of potential youthful offenders (index
crime offenses) to the appropriate school or parental authorities
without filing criminal charges for truancy violations. A
positive statement of the latter objective is to decrease the
incidence of juvenile crime by reducing the opportunity for a
juvenile to commit crime during school hours.
d.
Program Description:
The police cadet program
in operation eight hours
cadets will be recruited
EXHIBIT A
will consist of two full -time positions
per day, five days per week. The
from law enforcement students enrolled
in local community colleges and will be assigned to permanent
patrol duty in the Southcenter complex, under the direct super-
vision of sworn personnel of the Tukwila Police Department.
Both officers and cadets will be furnished with either blazer
and slacks or a "skirt -type" uniform. All personnel assigned
to this duty would be equipped with a portable radio, but only
sworn officers would be armed.
Crime prevention is the dominant theme of this project, with
particular emphasis on the juvenile offender. The Southcenter
patrol will assume direct responsibility for controlling juveniles
in the mall area during school hours. Those found to be in
violation of state statutes regulating school attendance would
be removed from the shopping center and the proper parent or
school authorities notified. Expectations are that through an
active and intelligent patrol effort a substantial reduction
in larceny- shoplifts (particularly those committed by the juvenile
offender) should occur. Cadets would, in addition to their
primary duty of crime prevention, respond (with the supervising
officer) to requests for emergency assistance, as well as crime
scene _investigations. This is a first -year funding request
with additional LEAA financial support proposed for 1975.
e. Evaluation:
The Police Department has suggested the recording of all juveniles
intercepted and returned to the appropriate authorities by the
special cadet patrol as one indication of program effectiveness.
Another method which has been proposed is to compare the incidence
of criminal offenses by juveniles following the inception of
the project with those arrested in a comparable time period
in the preceding year. In addition, the program will allow
vehicular_ .,patrol units to concentrate on preventative patrol
efforts outside. of Southcenter mall, resulting in either a
decrease in residential burglaries and auto thefts or an increase
in the number of arrests -in- progress for these crimes.
f. Budget:
Salaries and Personnel Benefits 8,700
Portable Radios 2,000
Uniforms 600
$11,300
(Student cadets will be paid a salary of $2.00 per
hour and work approximately 16 hours per week.)
Total Project Costs Grant Request Match
11,300
10,170 1,130