Silver Spring Police Department [Sealed

Silver Spring Police Department

[Sealed proposals for Implementing a police department in Silver Springs, FL. Silver Springs Police Departments shall be received at Silver Springs Police Department, c/o Jessica Johnson at One North Avenue until date and time specified in the RFP and/or Silver Springs Police Department web site ( http://www.silverspringtwp-pa.gov/police.cfm)]

Request for Proposal

SILVER SPRINGS POLICE DEPARTMENT

About Silver Springs Police Department

Our Mission and Values

Silver Spring Police Department Organizational Chart

Chain of Command

Enforcement of code Ethics

Chief of Police

Bureau of Field Operations

Bureau of Administration

Bureau of Investigation

Community Relations Division

Major Crimes Division

Force Investigation Division

Internal Audits and Inspections Division

Planning and Research Division

Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau (CTSOB)

Risk Management Division

Fiscal Division

Sworn Positions to Patrol 18

General Orders & #8230;.19

Budget Policies for 2013- 2014 20

GENERAL INFORMATION

PROPOSALS REQUESTED ? The City of Silver Springs, Florida, by and through its Silver Springs Police Department, hereafter "SSPD," hereby petitions proposals from concerned and qualified supporters desiring to provide a Police Department at One North Avenue, Silver Springs, FL. SSPD is the lead agency in this project that we anticipate will be a multi-agency consortium of users across multiple departments and jurisdictions in Florida. No assumption or specification is being made by SSPD as to architectural features of the proposals it will interest. It is the determination of SSPD to fully assess all proposals acknowledged from qualified promoters and select the proposal measured most acceptable and which will greatest help the public interest.

PROPOSAL PACKAGE

Copies of this Request for Proposal Package may be obtained from the Office of the Business Manager, Silver Springs Police Department or copies of this Request may be obtained by telephoning at (802) [HIDDEN] x?153. The RFP will also be available electronically at www.SSdvt.org

ABOUT the SILVER SPRINGS POLICE DEPARTMENT

Located on U.S. populated place and spring in Marion County, Florida, just to the east of the city of Ocala. It is part of the Ocala Metropolitan Statistical Area. Silver Springs is the site of one of the largest artesian spring formations in the world, producing nearly 550 million gallons of crystal-clear water daily. Silver Springs forms the headwaters of the Silver River, the largest tributary on the Ocklawaha River, a part of the St. Johns River system. It has been ranked by many organizations as one of the most livable cities in the United States.

The amalgamated city contains of fifty (50) square land miles that also includes something like ten (10) square miles of navigable waterways. The stable population of the city is one hundred thousand with an added daily tourist population of about twenty-five thousand. The cultural make-up of the stable population is 80% white, 14% black and 6% other. Also the city has a per-capita income which is something about twenty-seven thousand dollars. The population average age is forty-three. The unemployment rate is 5.6%. In the interior the city there is a school registration of eleven thousand students. Previous to assimilation as a city, the Sheriff's Office delivered every police services to the area.

The Silver Springs Police Department will be commissioned in 2013 to provide law enforcement services to the Silver Springs area. Throughout our time, the men and women of the department will proudly serve their community. We will serve a residential community of over 40,000, in addition to thousands of students that are from local colleges. The Department will authorize strength of 100 full-time police officers and 36 civilian support personnel. We will function using core creeds of community policing.

Our Mission and Values

We are dedicated to policing with the citizens of Silver Springs to achieve a safe, healthy and self-reliant community.

INTEGRITY ? we follow to the highest ethical standards, promising the community that their public trust is well founded.

SERVICE ? We deliver the highest level of service and protection to all people in a competent, polite manner, tempered with compassion and understanding.

RESPECT ? We treat all persons with dignity and respect by promoting equality and fairness both inside and outside the Department.

CREATIVITY ? We involve in problem-solving as our main strategy, connecting the community in identification of the problems, the best solutions and their application.

Community Policing

Community policing is a philosophy that syndicates the rudiments of partnerships, problem-solving and organizational change. Since 1999, we have been able to work with community members to better comprehend the needs of the districts. After we reach agreement, we plan on working to set a regulating agenda that is legal, suitable and without prejudice. Our objectives are to partner with shareholders that are from the community and the service subdivisions to carry out the problem-solving to which we have all decided.

We plan to work in developing forward-thinking, data-driven, active explanations to disorder and crime. Our recent stress has been on speaking to difficulties at their lowest likely level through education and prevention, outreach and intervention, to avert subjects from increasing to the level of prosecution, Court proceedings, and jail time. The Department will also be able to in the future handles somewhere around 40,000 calls for service yearly.

Exhibit 1: Silver Spring Police Department Organizational Chart

Chain of Command

PURPOSE

To define the lines of authority and establish a clear chain of command for the Silver Springs Police Department.

The qualified rank in point of officers of the department will be as chosen.

A.

Chief of Police

B.

Assistant Chief of Administration

C. Assistant Chief of Operation

D.

Captain

E.

Lieutenant

F.

Sergeant

G. Safety Officer, Crime Prevention Officer

H.

Court Officer

Detective

J.

Patrol Officer

In the nonappearance of the Chief of Police, the Assistant Chief of Administration in the Silver Springs Police Department will be in command of the Police Department. In the absenteeism of both the Chief of Police and the Assistant Chief of Administration the Assistant Chief of Operations will be in knowledge. In the nonappearances of the Chief of Police and both Assistant Chiefs the Ranking Captain that is on duty shall be in command. In the absence of an on duty Captain the Patrol Shift Commanding Officer will be in command. In the event of a planned absence the Chief of Police may appoint a senior staff member to undertake command in his or her nonappearance.

SILVER SPRINGS LAW ENFORCEMENT CODE of ETHICS

As a Law Enforcement Officer, our fundamental duty will be to serve mankind; to defend lives and property; to defend the guiltless against dishonesty; the weak against those that have oppressed them or even brought forth intimidation and the peaceful against violence or disorder; and to give respect to the constitutional rights of all men to liberty, parity and justice.

It will be the code of all our officers to make sure that they keep their private life pure as an example for all; uphold brave calm in the face of danger, contempt or mock; grow self-limitation; and be continually mindful of others. Truthful in thought and deed in both their personal and official life, they will be model in submitting to the laws of the land and the rules of their department. Whatever they see or hear of a private nature or that is confided to them in their official capacity, will be kept ever secret unless exposure is necessary in the performance of their duty.

Our officers will never act bossily or permit personal approaches, biases, hostilities or friendships to affect their decisions. With no compromise for their crime and with persistent prosecution of criminals, they will enforce the law politely and suitably without fear or favor, hatred or ill will, never employing needless force or violence and never accommodating perquisites.

Our officers will recognize the badge of any office as a symbol of public faith and they will accept it as a public trust to be held so long as they are true to the ethics of the police service. They will also constantly struggle to achieve these objects and principles, bestowing themselves before God to their chosen career -- law enforcement.

Bureau of Administration

The Bureau of Administration and Services (ADB) is accountable for Under administrative direction, oversees, supervises, and organizes the activities and operations of assigned Divisions inside the Police Department counting dispatch, records, crime analysis, and technology; supervises, arranges, and helps administrative staff with research, studies, council reports, and presentations; coordinates assigned activities with other divisions, departments, and outside agencies; and delivers extremely accountable and multifaceted administrative support to allocated management staff..

The Bureau in the Silver Springs department will also perform its functions through:

Assuming responsibility for allocated services and actions of allotted Divisions within the Police Department comprising dispatch, records, crime analysis, and technology.

Organizes the business, staffing, and operational activities for allocated divisions.

Contributes in the growth and application of goals, purposes, policies, and urgencies; endorses and gears subsequent policies and dealings.

Detects chances for improving service delivery approaches and procedures; recognizes resource needs; analyses with suitable management staff; gears improvements.

Directs, organizes, and reviews the work plan for allocated services and activities; dispenses work actions and projects; screens work flow; appraisals and assesses work merchandises, approaches, and events; meets with staff to classify and decide problems.

Chooses, trains, inspires, and assesses assigned personnel; delivers or organizes staff.

Bureau of Investigation

Our Bureau of Investigation will be comprised of about 158 investigators. We will have 113 District Attorney Investigators. Their law enforcement authority will come from the same segment of the penal code, 830.1, as a deputy sheriff or city police officer. What will be unique about our law enforcement team is that they will all come to us from other law enforcement agencies. Most will already come from our local law enforcement organizations nonetheless we will have more than a few who will have come from state and federal agencies. They will all have completed the simple POST academy and are requisite to meet the continuing training necessities which are set forth by POST.

Once they are hired, many of our District Attorney Investigators will then be assigned to areas that they have really good experience in, for instance pre-trial support, gangs, robbery, narcotics, homicide, and family protection (which comprises domestic/child/elder abuse and child abduction). Alongside with these areas, we will have an increasing amount of investigators who will be working in specialized units such as computer and high tech crime, ecological, real estate, customer, and workers recompense fraud. We also will have investigators that will be dispensed to the parts of public honesty, Mexican Liaison, backgrounds, officer complicated shootings, and internal affairs. We will deliver widespread training and mentoring in order to help our investigators as they changeover into these actual multifaceted, technical and particular investigations.

Community Relations Division

The creation of CRD at Silver Springs will be based upon acknowledgment of the need for joint accepting and constant trading of communications that are between the Department and the public, particularly inside minority communities. Its first goals were amalgamation of the Department's labors to combine and widen community support and to help local station commanding officers in upholding channels of communication with minorities during the course of the City. It was felt that, by appealing minority communities in expressive discourse, police-community difficulties, which donated to social unrest or major hostilities, could be evaded.

Structuring on that early operational philosophy, the CRD in Silver Springs will maintain connection with communities during the course of one of the most ethnically varied cities in the world. Team members from CRD will be the ones who will uphold interaction with community-based administrations, leaders, spokespersons, and other sources to develop and keep open the lines of communication among the Chief of Police and those groups or individuals. It is still obligatory upon CRD to uphold a constant trading of communication with the public in order to screen developing tendencies or pressures and take positive action to avert circumstances that could be harmful to the city, community or the Department. The motivation for CRD to do so is will be to uphold a calm environment citywide and to nurture mutual trust and admiration among the Department and the community. In this method, CRD will be able to get some level of accepting as to the Department's efficiency in carrying out its mission and calculating the "pulse" of the city.

Major Crimes Division

The primary objective of Major Crimes Division will be the prevention of important disturbances of public order in the City of Los Angeles. The Board of Police Commissioners will be the ones to authorize Major Crimes Division to examine persons or groups who strategy, threaten, finance, aid, abet, effort or achieve illegal acts which intimidate public safety. Furthermore, investigators of Major Crimes Division are committed to preventing individuals or groups from annoying or harming others on the foundation of race, religion, national source, or sexual orientation. The captain will be the Commanding Officer of Major Crimes Division. Major Crimes Division wills the ones who rely deeply on members of the public for information concerning possible terrorist action.

Force Investigation Division

Force Investigation Division, (FID), will established as the entity that will be responsible for the managerial investigation of all usages of force meant as "Categorical" in the Consent Decree among the Department and the United States Department of Justice.

Force Investigation Division (FID) will be responsible for the investigation of all occurrences concerning the use of lethal force of an SSPD officer. Furthermore, all use of force subsequent in an injury necessitating hospitalization usually referred to as a Law Enforcement Related Injury (LERI). Investigative responsibility of FID will also involve all deaths while the arrestee or detainee is in the custodial care of the SSPD, accidental and animal shootings and other investigations as directed by the Chief of Detectives.

To be able to accomplish this task, FID is presently prearranged into three investigative units. Furthermore an Administrative Section joining a special projects unit delivers the essential administrative review, mistake and obedience with related projects, investigations and reviews.

Internal Audits and Inspections Division

Audit Division will be established in; pursuant to a duty in the Consent Decree that the Department forms what is to be an audit unit. It will be staffed by simply a handful of sworn and civilian employees; Audit Division will eventually grow over the years into a professional audit shop which will be staffed by over 30 sworn and civilian auditing professionals, counting Certified Public Accountants, Certified Fraud Examiners, Certified Government Auditing Professionals, and Certified Internal

Audit Division will be responsible for increasing the Department Annual Audit Plan (AAP), organizing and arranging audits anticipated by the AAP, safeguarding the suitable conclusion of audits, and directing audits as directed by the Chief of Police. Audit Division will be responsible for leading seven large-scale audits on a yearly basis. Those seven audits, which are compulsory by paragraphs 128 and 129 of the Consent Decree, will be the following: warrant applications and affirmations; arrest reports; motor vehicle and pedestrian stops; intimate informant packages; definite use of force investigations; non-categorical use of force investigations; and, personnel complaint investigations ("Annual Estimates of the population for the Incorporated Places of Florida," 2012).

Planning and Research Division

The Planning and Research Division will be able to provide a lot of critical support purposes that are for the Department. The unit's execution these purposes within the Division are:

Facilities Maintenance: This unit upholds each of the Department's 21 facilities, coordinating routine preservation, which comprises painting, plumbing, electrical, and janitorial services with the Department of Public Works. This unit coordinates emergency repairs and hazard eradication. The members respond to requests to have facilities modified to accommodate changing strategic needs and to maintain compliance with changes in building codes (the 2012 Florida Statutes, 2006).

Equipment Repair: This unit will have the job of performing equipment maintenance and repairing both at the worksite and in the maintenance shop. Moreover, some aging equipment is repaired and reconstructed in order to exploit service. .

Crime Analysis Unit: This unit amasses crime statistics and achieves analysis for strategic management of Department resources. Crime stats are displayed on the Department's community website

Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau (CTSOB)

In Silver Springs, the Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau (CTSOB) will be made up of Major Crimes Division (ATD) and Emergency Services Division (ESD). Major Crimes Division will also be comprised of Criminal Conspiracy, Criminal Investigations, Intelligence Investigations, Surveillance, and Liaison Sections. Emergency Services Division (ESD) will be I comprised of Field and Community Support, Emergency Planning, Operations, and Hazardous Devices Sections. In brief, Counter- Terrorism Bureau will be responsible for planning, response and aptitude.

CTSOB mission:

In Silver Springs, their job will be to prevent terrorism by efficiently sharing information meant at upsetting terrorist's operational competence and speaking to the fundamental causes related with the motivational constituent; to Defend the public and critical substructure by leveraging private sector incomes and inurement targets; to Follow terrorists and those criminal initiatives that upkeep them; and, to Make the citizenry and the city government for penalties associated with terrorist operations that are against the city.

Risk Management Division

In theory, risk management is the documentation and deterrence or decrease of foreseeable losses to an organization.

In practice, risk management in Silver Springs will be very methodical, proactive approach to the decrease of opposing penalties (liability incidents) associated with organizational operations.

Risk Management Group in Silver Springs will provide better management mistake of the Department's liability decline determinations. The Commanding Officer, Risk Management Group, oversees the actions of the Officers in Charge of the Use of Force Review and Risk Analysis Sections.

The objective of Risk Analysis Section and Use of Force Review Section in Silver Springs is to safeguard obligation control through monotonous critical analysis of individual and organizational performances that are relative to management oversight, worker conduct, use of force, recreations, traffic collisions, and the outcomes of civil litigation in order to recognize liability matters and take remedial action. When obligation subjects are recognized suitable corrective action is started. Examples of corrective action comprise counseling, training, discipline, and/or alterations to existing strategy and procedures.

Fiscal Division

The Fiscal Division will be accountable for the growth and oversight of the Silver Springs Police Department's general budget. This is a compound and thorough task that necessitates both outstanding forethought and office skills. In addition, they will be accountable for helping in, and replying to, audits from federal, state and local activities.

Accounting Section: Accountable for tracking and creating payments on all bills for the Police Department. It is the Accounting Section in Silver Springs that also procedures work orders with the other City Departments, makes contract and lease payments, and expedites material and supply acquisitions for units during the course of the department.

The Fiscal Division will be the ones that will provide administrative oversight to both the Grant Unit and Fleet Operations.

Grant Unit: they will be able to identify, review, prepare, and apply for grant funding chances for the Silver Springs Department. Grant applications are intended and written on an ongoing basis. The Grant Unit organizes with the Police Commission, City Hall and the Board of Supervisors to move grant awards through the City and County endorsement procedure. With the effective award of grant money, it is the accountability of this unit to instrument and achieve grant projects and to deliver the funding agencies with project apprises.

Store Keeper: questions coupons for all uniform items, and grips the whole Department's equipment and source needs.

Staff Services Division

This Division is comprised of six separate sub-units. Personnel Unit: Responsible for the processing and maintenance of personnel files for employees (sworn and civilian,) as well as human resources issues, including the appointment processing of new hires, promotions, and separations.

Payroll Unit: Processes the payroll for the entire Department in liaison with the Office of the Controller.

Medical Liaison: Oversees all claims of industrial injury and illness, in liaison with the Workers Compensation Department, to ensure that medical benefits and confidentiality are afforded to each injured or ill member. This unit oversees leaves of absence, identification card processing for active and retired members, and investigates fraudulent claims.

Background Investigation Unit: Responsible for the investigation of applications for employment working closely with physicians, psychologists, polygraph technicians, and other outside agencies.

Police Physician: Oversees the health of members. The doctor is routinely tasked with coordinating formal responses from private physicians as they relate to industrial and non-industrial injuries and illnesses. The Police Physician reviews medical restrictions of those officers returning to work in a modified-duty capacity.

ADA Coordinator: Responsible for the Department's compliance with the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA Coordinator routinely meets with injured workers who request accommodation under the ADA provisions in liaison with the City Attorney's Office and State of California.

SSPD's Recent Reorganization of the Special Operations Division Returned 40

Sworn Positions to Patrol

In preparation for the future shift change when many staffing reductions could possibly implement, the Department will measure how to increase Patrol staffing in order to meet the expected demand for calls for service. Inside the Bureau of Field Operations, SJPD identified the Special Operations Division as a source from which to redistribute sworn staff back into Patrol service. As stated by SSPD, internal planning for the restructuring of the Special Operations Division will start soon.

General Orders

Sick Leave: Sick leave is an essential part of the employee compensation package. However, efforts must be taken to ensure that some employees do not abuse this privilege to the detriment of the organization and fellow employees. These efforts should include a fair but firm policy that is communicated to all employees. The use of leave should be monitored for patterns of abuse.

Vehicle Usage: Vehicles to use are vans, and cars. Mileage has to be recorded once car is brought back to station.

Informant Handling: officers must understand that it is important in knowing how a federal agency is supposed to function its informants and that they understand that they can be of value, either in case groundwork or when you and your client are deciding whether to collaborate with the government.

General Rules and Regulations

ALL SWORN and CIVILIAN MEMBERS of the DEPARTMENT, WHILE on or OFF DUTY, at ALL TIMES, SHALL:

1.

Acquaint themselves with the instructions of Conduct and the requirements of the Policy and Procedure Manual; and they will be held responsible for acquiescence with them. Violations of the guidelines of Conduct or the requirements of the Policy and Procedure Handbook may result in disciplinary action that will be subject to the delivery of the labor agreement. Disciplinary duties that outcome in a hearing before the Police and Fire Commission could possibly result in suspension or end of employment.

2.

Follow everyone of the local, state and federal laws, rules and regulations.

3.

Making sure that all of the court process and orders.

4.

Appearing in court or at hearings with regard to City linked issues that are upon the appeal of the District Attorney, Attorney General City Attorney, or Police and Fire Commission, and collaborate completely with said officers in the presentation of their responsibilities and in the management of justice.

Budget Policies for 2013- 2014

We plan to repeatedly look at the expenditures and revenues in this fund to assistance assure that the fund maintains a positive financial balance.

We plan to continue to support the Hire Ahead program which delivers two officers for Patrol, and contributions in justifying some of the staffing shortages and overtime.

We plan to support the School Resource Officer program with additional funding from that will come from the School District.

We plan to support the regional radio system prices which cannot be charged to the tax, for instance radio upkeep and replacement prices.

We plan to support funding for enhanced police training and equipment.

We will start funding provision for the Police Department's new Police Support Officer in lieu of backing the Fire Department's Emergency Management program.

Anticipated Budget for Silver Springs Police Department

Revenues

Grants & General Donations

243,886

Intergovernmental - School Dist (SRO

462,283

State Shared Revenues

23,872

Washington State Sales Tax

16,700

Opening Fund Balance

383,338

Expenditures

Computer Replacements

18,000

Regional Radio & Replacements

20,000

Special Operations/Bike Patrol

25,000

Police Training

12,000

Police Equipment

13,456

Hire Ahead

12,000

Administration / Equipment Rental

86,000

Fiscal Division

37,000

Risk Management Division

25,000

Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau (CTSOB)

34,000

Planning and Research Division

56,000

Internal Audits and Inspections Division

40,000

Major Crimes Division

60,000

Bureau of Investigation

56,000

Community Relations Division

45,000

Bureau of Administration

20,000