Applications in crime Data Warehouse and the second project is Network Connectivity for the vehicle modems we received 400 400,000 in the current year and requesting another 400 thousand for the upcoming year to upgrade the computers in the cars for officers and help them connect to the crime Data Warehouse much faster and a lot of speed onsite for the officers and our new cite is e citations through the officers smartphones and they will be able to write tickets directly from their phones and this is a very ambitious project but weve requested 600 thousand dollars 600,000 and the committee liked that project very much last year and approved in concept but didnt give us any funding so were going back and asking for 600 for 600,000 for that project so we can totally utilize the smartphones to write tickets and that would be very good and then again of course were requesting continuing funding for our smartphones to distribute phones for the additional remaining command staff as well as
Because were adding the ftes into that budget as well as as the airport additional civilian positions and this slide you have seen for a few years its our sworn hiring plan and it presents the the purple line thats what would have happened had we not hired we would have continued to drop and the black line is where we are now and the red line is where we need to be, the mandated level of 1971 and as you can see were making Good Progress thanks to a lot of work from the commission advocating for staffing as well as the Mayors Office has helped us out so with this growth were anticipating hitting our mandated level at december 2017 and thats hiring 3 Academy Classes of about fifty a piece so about 150 or 160 officers every year and thats what has been submitted in the budget. This slide sort of details our progress thus far in 2013 we hired 183 officers and 1314, 157 and so far this year weve graduated 122 officers and well have another class of fifty starting in april so that 122 will h
Note that this is fte not head count. So the difference between 1516 from 1516 to 201415 is primarily due to the airport requesting 43 new positions civilian positions and psas and supervisors to help with traffic flow and additional security at lost and found and improve air field security and reduce overtime at the terminals. Can i stop you just there . Sometimes the difference between what an fte and a body is its not fully understood so if you could just explain that. Sure so a head count is just the physical person like you know so we will be hiring for example 150 people throughout the year but the cost to the department is not 150 salaries all year long it is at what point we pick them up on the budget for example we hire people in august we hire people in september we hire people in january and that translates those 150 translate to about 55 ftes and the amount of funding required to carry those people in our budget. Got it very helpful thank you. So thats the increase in the c
Creates another level of conflict. If the officer is reminded, tell the person what they can expect they will be more likely to cooperate. When we talk about equity, that is simply to underscore make sure that you are recognizing whatever biases you bring to the table. Make sure youre making your decision on the outcome in an equitable way. Always leave with the person youre interacting with with their dignity in tact, and act with dignity yourself. A lot of officers will mock when we use an acronym. I get that. But its also a very effective way to teach very speck beific behaveior behavior. Studies have shown that people care how theyre treated by police more than the outcome of a police encounter. Police that may pull people over for a driving offense may find people care more about whether they were treated fairly by a Police Officers rather than if they got the ticket. As youve acknowledged in the past empathy and patience do not necessarily come naturally for some police recruits.
Meanwhile just days after the District Attorney called this incident a tragedy but not a crime, the Justice Department is about to release a new report about a Deadly Police shooting in philadelphia. This hour Justice Department officials are preparing to release their findings on deadly force used by Philadelphia Police officers. Nbc 10s jesse gary live for us outside the u. S. Attorneys office in center city. Jesse, youve seen the report what can you tell us. Reporter while the report is still under wraps technically until official release inside the u. S. Attorneyed office on the sixth floor, about 180 page report compiled by special Community Policing Division Within the department of justice. Police commissioner Charles Ramsey requested the review a couple years ago after a rash of Police Involved shootings. The number of incidents have since declined after the spike started an upward trend in 2007. Most recently protests erupted last week after d. A. Cleared philly cops. Head of