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.'y Wayee G. Calvalho <br /> <br /> Stephen K Yamaahiro PdvrClueJ <br /> '~0y°' James S. Coves <br /> ..N Deputy Pdxe Ch,eJ <br /> falxuntg of ~ttfuttii <br /> POLICE DEPARTMENT <br /> 319 wp,uiu~l stmt • Hob, wwui %726399s <br /> (!0!) 9353311 • Pu (a0B) %1-2701 <br /> October 18, 2000 <br /> TO STEPHEN YAMAS MAYOR <br /> FROM J S. ORREA, ACTING POLICE CHIEF <br /> SUBJECT .REQUEST FOR NEW POSITIONS <br /> The Hawaii County Police Department is in critical need of addttional positions for the operation <br /> of the Central Iispatch Section. We are requesting that the following positions, which will be <br /> funded from within our budget, be created to meet this need. <br /> Police Radio Ispatcher, PRD I, (SR-14) <br /> Annual Salary: $24,408 <br /> Positions Requested. 5 <br /> Projected annual cost: $122,040 <br /> In October of 1998, the Police Department installed a Computer .Aided Dispatch (CAD) System <br /> in Central Dispatch CAD required 7 dispatch console positions to be manned 24 hours a day <br /> The commonly accepted relief factor (i.e., to wver personnel absences due to days off, sick <br /> leave, vacation, framing, and so on) is that five personnel are required to staff one position for a <br /> 24 hour period in an entire yeaz <br /> To cover 7 required positions we need to actually staff 35 muumum PRD personnel. We <br /> currently have 30 permanent positions (27 PRD-IIs' and 3 SPRDs'), short of the optimum by 5 <br /> personnel. Coverage of the 7 positions along with a Supervising Police Radio Dispatcher (SPRD) <br /> for each shift would be the optimum situation The 3 current SPRDs' perform dispatch dupes <br /> most of the lime to make up for the shortage of manpower. To compound the matter, we <br /> regulazly have two or more persons on extended sick leave. To maintain the 7 positions, with an <br /> <br />