Complete Document - City of Auburn

Public Safety DepartmentClyde Prather, DirectorMajor Functions of the Public Safety Department♦ Provide Building Codes inspectionsfor all new construction in the City♦ Provide fire prevention inspectionsfor all City businesses andindustries♦ Provide immediate response to allfire calls♦ Provide police patrol throughoutthe City♦ Provide immediate response to allpolice calls for service♦ Provide immediate dispatch ofemergency 911 calls♦ Provide special crime preventionprograms (foot patrol, bike patrol) tomaintain a sense of security in thecommunityMajor Accomplishments in FY 02♦ Completed the renovations of thePublic Safety Administration Building(Old Library) and occupied it in March2002.♦ Re-Bid the Development ServicesBuilding (Old City Hall) and the PublicSafety Building and started therenovations in April 2002.♦ Razed three abandoned/dilapidatedbuildings. One additional abandonedstructure was burned by the firedivision as a training exercise.♦ Conducted a Disaster Simulation FieldExercise to test our IncidentCommand System for the PublicSafety Management Team.♦ Developed a career development planfor the Public Safety CodesInspectors.♦ Completed an audit and up-date of thetraining records of each Public SafetyDivision.♦ Bid and purchased the equipment toupgrade our 911 CommunicationsSystem and relocate the CommunicationCenter in the new Public SafetyAdministration Building.♦ Completed the Needs Assessment forFire Station #5.♦ Recruited and trained twenty-one studentfirefighters, who then achieved Statecertification.Benchmarks Achieved in FY 02♦ Average Police Division response time toemergency calls (dispatch to arrival): 3minutes(continued on next page)154