KPD Annual Report - City of Knoxville

Reserve Unit
The Reserve Unit provides supplemental manpower
to the Patrol Division. Reserve Officers are
volunteers who receive police training and they assist
with traffic and crowd control at special events,
transporting prisoners and ride with full-time officers
to create a two-officer beat car. In addition to
this increased efficiency, the program provides Reserve
Officers with positive law enforcement experience
and a means to serve their community.
The Unit is assigned to the District Support Unit,
but provides supplemental assistance to all components
of the department.
Mobile Field Force
The Mobile Field Force (MMF) is currently comprised
of 40 members equally divided into three
squads. Some activities the MFF completed:
• Placed in stand-by status for events in the downtown
area
• Deployment for a protest event at the TVA Towers
• Staffed Cumberland Avenue on Friday and Saturday
evenings during University of Tennessee Football
games which relieved patrol shifts of the manpower
intensive assignments and promoted consistent enforcement
of order maintenance issues in the Cumberland
Avenue area.
Reserve Unit 2011 Highlights
• Donated 2,096 hours of volunteer assistance to the department and community, including 389 hours of training,
461 hours at special events, and 1,246 hours assisting in patrol
• Helped with 81 arrests and 246 citations
Marine Unit
The Marine Unit provides marine patrols, boat safety checks and education, assists disabled boaters and
swimmers and enforces boating laws. All of its members are trained and commissioned annually so they can
enforce boating laws by the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency (TWRA). The unit patrolled waterways during
Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day (Boomsday) holidays. In addition, the Unit patrolled the
Volunteer Landing and the Volunteer Marina during all University of Tennessee home football games and participated
in several demonstrations. The unit regularly assisted TWRA during special events such as National
Operation Dry Water Weekend.
During 2011, the Marine Unit answered
a variety of calls for service
including boat theft investigations,
suicidal jumpers, public
drunkenness, disorderly conduct,
disabled boaters and body recoveries.
The unit also assisted in numerous
training days with the
Search and Recovery Team. The
unit has two boats that were donated
by Sea Ray Boats of Knoxville.
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