A/S Gross – Welcome
- Closely monitoring crime statistics since Public Health Order (3/19/20)
- Violent Crime down 6.2%
- Property Crime down 6.6%
- Part 1 Crime down 6.54%
- 95% decrease in calls for service
- Employee Testing
- 394 personnel in quarantine today
- Approximately 150 of those are assigned to patrol
- 24 have tested positive for COVID-19
- Approximately 150 have returned to duty after quarantining
- 394 personnel in quarantine today
- Additional patrol staff
- Over 400+ additional personnel assigned to patrol stations each day
- Bail amounts
- No bail for most misdemeanor and non-violent felonies
- Non-compliant enforcement
- Warn and advise first (educate)
- Cite and arrest a last resort (virtually none so far)
- Call screening
- Station desk staff (911 operators) continue to screen calls to ensure a proper response and personnel are adequately prepared for call for service
- Video Arraignment
- Superior Court, Judges, District Attorney, and Sheriff’s Department have worked to establish 12 regional video arraignment sights at Sheriff’s Stations.
- Keep new people (arrestees) from entering jail population pre-arraignment.
- Allow arraignment to occur via video from Sheriff’s station jails.
- Field personnel
- Encourage personnel to wear masks in the field
- N95 for high risk calls
- Dust masks for general use
- Encourage personnel to wear masks in the field
U/S Murakami
- Conference call with County Leadership
- “Safer at home” to go beyond 4/19, unknown duration yet
A/S Chase
- A. County has had 3 positive inmates in custody
- One of those inmates has since recovered and been released
- Continuing to screen all incoming inmates, quarantining and isolating as required by medical staff
- No current concerns about having to release larger numbers of inmates
A/S Limon
- Working with A/S Gross on video arraignments to reduce people coming into jail population
A/S Chase
- Normally, more than a thousand inmates are transported to court every day
- Approximately 500 inmates were transported to court today, still high
- Increased risk for all involved in the transportation process
A/S Gross & Marcel Rodarte
- Department is in receipt of letter seeking relief for Contract Cities
Sheriff Villanueva
- Thank you to all involved, striving to keep information flowing
- Re: CCCA Letter
- Let’s see what BOS has to say about financial issues cities are facing
- We understand your request and support contract cities
Chief Hellmold
- Each Unit Commander is submitting a Continuity of Operations plan
- Assuming loss of available personnel at various levels (25%, 50%, and 75%)
- We don’t feel like it is headed that direction, but we want to be prepared
A/S Gross
- Goals to keep crime suppressed and keep directed patrols for vulnerable areas