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<br />Focus Area 3 Maintaining and Improving Public Safety <br />Police Headquarters <br />Services <br /> <br />An increase in population, combined with new development and <br />redevelopment, will create an increased demand for public safety <br />services. To keep pace, the City needs tomust commit to a gradual <br />expansion of its Police, Fire, and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) <br />Departments and invest in new facilities, equipment, and staffing to <br />ensure adequate service capabilities, responsiveness, and <br />geographic coverage in the coming years. <br /> <br />Police Services <br /> <br /> <br />The Police Department operates out of its headquarters at 3001 N. <br />Photo: Kendig Keast Collaborative <br />rd <br />23 Street; a new 5056,000 square foot police/municipal court <br />Best Practices Accreditation <br />facility constructed in 20082007. The building is the Police <br /> <br />In December 2009, the La Porte <br />general purpose needs. <br />Police Department was recognized as <br /> <br />an accredited, Best Practices law <br />The Police Department currently has 107 108 employees, two <br />enforcement agency by the Texas <br />15 <br />reserve officers, and 9658 dedicated volunteers; this includes 75 <br /> one of <br />commissioned, full-time officers (including the Chief). The <br />only 35 in the entire state of Texas. <br />department is divided into Patrol Operations and Support Services. <br /> <br />Source: Low La Porte Police Department 2010 <br />The Patrol Division is divided into three patrol shifts. It also operates <br />Annual Report. <br />a traffic/commercial vehicle enforcement section, motorcycle patrol, <br />K9 units, bicycle patrol, SWAT team, as well as an Explosive <br />Ordinance Disposal (a.k.a. bomb disposal) unit. The Police <br />service area is the City-limits, but they respond off-site to bothare <br />occasionally called upon to respond to neighboring jurisdictions such as <br />Shoreacres, and , and areas in the ETJ where the County <br />Sheriff has jurisdiction. <br /> <br />The Support Services Division is divided into Criminal Investigations and <br />Support Services (e.g., community services, training, IT, building <br />maintenance, communications (i.e., E-911) and records, animal control, and <br />-911 dispatch center is located <br />within and staffed by the Police Department, which handles dispatch for all <br />emergencies for the Police, Fire, and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) <br />emergency dispatchers dispatched 37,190 police calls, 1,582 fire calls, and <br />2,976 EMS calls for a total of 41,748 calls for service. <br /> <br />As the community continues to grow, the Police Department sees a need for <br />an additional jailers per shift and a full-time crime analyst, in addition to <br />adding patrol officers to keep pace with the new population. The Police <br />Department also foresees a need to expand portions of the current facility, <br /> <br />15 <br /> La Porte Police Department 2010 Annual Report. <br />3.13 <br /> <br />Infrastructure and growth capacity <br />2.ŗř Adopted July 20, 2009 <br /> <br />