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Atlantic Beach
Department of Public Safety
1st Quarter Report 2008
Highlights
The Public Safety Department, along with all City Departments, has prioritized its efforts
towazds the Mayport Corridor Improvement Plan. The department has attended all the
community meetings to receive feedback from the citizens and to demonstrate our
commitment to this initiative.
The Police Department received approval for an additional officer to assist in our efforts.
There will be 2 Police Officers making up a Community Oriented Policing unit assigned
to the Mayport Corridor, full-time. Vacant positions are being filled in order to staff this
new unit. The department is finalizing selections for these positions. Additional
equipment (vehicle, bikes etc...) is being purchased and required training is being
scheduled for these officers. The unit will be operational before the end of the summer.
The beginning of the Mayport Road construction project has provided new challenges to
the department in maintaining traffic safety. There has been confusion on the part of
drivers trying to negotiate the lane changes and construction barrels as well as an increase
in side street traffic from drivers attempting to bypass the construction areas. The
department has taken a proactive approach to addressing these issues through increased
patrols and aggressive enforcement.
The Atlantic Beach Police Department continues to have an exceptional emergency
response time. The average for the 1St quarter 2008 is 2 minutes 1 second.
Crime
Since the 2007 annual report was completed, additional information has become
available. Atlantic Beach continues to have the lowest per capita crime rate in Duval
County and is also below the state average.
Location AB NB JB Jax Florida
Per Capita 43.19 50.53 72.21 62.71 46.94
Crime Rate
2007
Per Capita 38.74 41.87 77.09 59.61 46.31
Crime Rate
2006
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Furthermore, Atlantic Beach has the highest cleazance rate of any police department in
the county and is higher than the state average. In other words, percentage wise, we solve
more case and make more arrests. The department showed a dramatic increase of 12.6%
from 2006 to 2007 in cleared cases.
Location AB NB JB Jax Florida
Clearance 29.0% 18.4% 16.9% 18.0% 22.7
Rate 2007
Cleazance 16.4% 19.3% 17.0% 16.8% 22.0
Rate 2006
There was a 9.24% decrease in Part I crimes in the 1St quarter of 2008 as compazed to the
1 S' quarter of 2007. That downward trend has continued through Apri12008, which
reported a 17% decrease from the same month in 2007.
There was a 27.9% increase in arrests in 2007 as compazed to 2006. That trend continues
albeit at much reduced rate of increase. There was only a slight increase from I St quarter
2008 compazed to the same period of 2007 (3.13%). However, the arrests still increased
even though there was almost a 10% decrease in crime for the same period.
Productivity
The department continues to experience an increase in calls for service. Although the 1St
quarter of 2008 is slightly down from 2007, there were still double digit percentage
increases from prior yeazs. Traffic citations aze down from 2007. However, they are 20%
up from 2006. Recovery of stolen property is over 47%, which is an increase of over 8%
from 2007 and is well above the state average of 27%.
The Crime Suppression Unit (CSU) continues to be very productive with 65 arrests in the
first quarter alone. They aze aggressively conducting alcohol compliance checks and have
chazged seven individuals with violations during this reporting period. Prostitution
arrests have dramatically decreased, but is indicative of the success of past enforcement
campaigns resulting in less illegal activity.
Both Animal Control and Code Enforcement reported increases in activity from the prior
yeaz. Code Enforcement has had a slight increase in calls and more violations have been
observed. Animal Control has experienced an increase in all reported categories and has
more than doubled the number of citations issued.
Personnel
Currently the Police Department has 3 vacancies for police officers. Recruitment efforts
have been aggressive, however the challenge in selecting qualified applicants from a
shrinking pool of candidates has been extremely difficult. The department has not been
fully staffed at any point during this yeaz or at any point in 2007. Recruitment efforts
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have been dramatically expanded to attract out town/state applicants interested in
relocating. Two out-of--state applicants have been successfully hired and are currently in
the Field Training Program.
The Property and Evidence position has been vacant for a number of months while a
suitable replacement was being sought. Due to the sensitive nature of the assignment,
thorough background checks had to be completed on the applicants who passed initial
testing and were deemed qualified. A final selection has been made and the position will
be officially filled within a few weeks.
Training
Succession planning was identified as a top priority for the department. There are several
imminent retirements which will occur over the next 2 years, resulting in a loss of more
than 150 years of experience with the city. The need for future supervisors and leaders in
the department is an absolute. Within 12 months, employees have attended or are
scheduled to attend over 600 hours of managementlleadership training.
The Department is deeply committed to providing quality training to all its employees. In
the first quarter of 2008, employees attended over 350 hours of job related training.
Employees attended training in the following topics.
• Leadership/Supervision
• Internal Affairs Investigations
• PedestrianBicycle Accident Investigation
• DUI Enforcement
• Field Sobriety Testing Instruction
• Field Training Officer
• Crime Scene Processing
• Interview Techniques
Advanced training keeps employees current and on the cutting edge of Public Safety
techniques, trends and strategies. The Department believes a better trained employee
results in the delivery of a higher quality of service. The above list does not include
classes taken by the employees who are enrolled in various degree programs.
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