APD Budget Presentation

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Austin Police Department

FY 2016 Proposed Budget

Budget Presentations:

www.austintexas.gov/finance August 10, 2015

http://www.austintexas.gov/finance




Department Overview

Key Performance Data

FY 14

Actual

FY 15

Estimate

FY 16

Projected

Property crime rate per 1,000

population 45.80 41.41 50.77

Violent crime rate per 1,000

population 4.06 3.70 4.96

Total police response time for

EMERGENCY and URGENT calls 7:45 7:58 7:45

Rate of traffic fatalities per 100,000

population 7.55 8.85 7.80

Percent of residents who are satisfied

with the overall quality of police services 74 74 73

Percent of Part I crimes cleared 16.2 16.7 15.1

Part II crime rate per 1,000 population 93 88 108

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Mission: The mission of the Police

Department is to keep you, yourfamily and our community safe.

Major Accomplishments:

• Austin continues to enjoy the

ranking of second safest large cityfor violent crime (US cities with

population 500,000+).

• Resident satisfaction with the

overall quality of police services

(74%) is higher than other US cities

of similar size (67%).

• The rate at which the department

apprehends suspects in violent and

property crimes (clearance rate)

was higher in FY14 than the prior

year and 17% higher than the goal.

Note: measures in bold are City dashboard measures



Department Uses of Funds

185.2

50.4 50.2

18.2

64.9

196.5

54.6 54.1

18.8

70.0

0.0

50.0

100.0

150.0

200.0

250.0

Neighborhood Based

Policing

Investigations Operations Support Professional Standards Support Services

Transfers/Other Reqs

FY 2015 FY 2016

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Total Budgets by Program:

FY 15 Amended: $368.9 millionFY 16 Proposed: $394.0 million

FY 2016 Positions:

Sworn 1931.00

Civilian 705.2585.0

22.0

( $ m i l l i o n s )



Staffing Models

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Communications StaffingFiscal

Year

Dispatchers/

Call Takers

Lead/

Supervisors

Support

Staff

2015 15 2 4

2016 15 2 2

2017 6 0 8

0.00200.00

400.00

600.00

800.00

1,000.00

1,200.00

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

FY14

Act.

FY15

Amend.

FY16

Prop.

FY17

Proj.

FY18

Proj.

FY19

Proj.

FY20

Proj.

S w o r n S t a f f i n g f o r C o m m u

n i t y

E n

g a g e m e n t ( P o s i t i o n s )

*

C o m m u

n i t y E n g a g e m e n t T i m e

( P e r c e n t )

Community Engagement Staffing

Community Engagement Time (Percent) Sworn Staffing (Positions) *

* The number of sworn positions required to bring

Community Engagement Time to 30% by FY19 hasbeen averaged over the forecast period (FY16 – FY 20).

The projections in the table reflect 68 officers, 7

corporals, and 7 sergeants added each year during this

transition period.



Budget Highlights

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Description Amount

82 new sworn positions to increase proactive

community engagement time (partial funding)

$6.6 million

Annualized cost of FY 2015 officers $1.9 million

3 new sworn positions for property crimes and

PAL/Explorer programs (9 months of funding)

$0.4 million

19 new civilian positions for Emergency

Communications (9 months of funding)

$1.1 million

2 new civilian positions for records management (9

months of funding)

$0.1 million

Transfer of 1 civilian position from the Building

Services Department for special events

$0.1 million



Capital Highlights

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Mounted Patrol Facility (Architect/Design Phase)

Design and construct a facility for the MountedPatrol Unit to be used for housing, exercising,

and training the horses.

Park Patrol/Joint Use Facility (Architect/DesignPhase)

APD Park Patrol and PARD Park Rangers will jointly utilize the facility to provide policing

services in the central parks corridor.

Northwest Police Substation

Site Acquisition underway for Northwest AustinPolice substation.

FY 2016 Appropriation $0.0 million FY 2016 Spending Plan $1.6 million



For More Information

Chief

Art Acevedo

974-5030 Chief ofStaff

BrianManley

974-5030

AssistantDirector

Alice

Thomas974-5069

MediaInquiries

AnnaSabana

974-5335www.austintexas.gov/finance 7



Documents

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