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April 26, 1988 Public Safety In response Jto your commitment~to make 'PoYtsmouth~ a safe place to live, work and visit, this .year's police department budget reflects the addition, of two !new police officer positions. One officer will be assigned to a new Central 8usiness District walking beat while the other will' be assigned to the' Mounted ?at~ol'.~ At- the same time, t.o cut ~eos~ aRd~ st'rea~il'in~e the command structure, have ~limi~a~:ed admin~st~t~iv~ lie~enan~'s p~sition. a~d r~pl,aced that p~sit,ion w~th a n~ ~nLfor~ em~ee. kdd~t~i~Dalty, thi~s~year the automate~ fingerprint identifiea~i~n sys%e~ ~(AFIS~) will be put into op~ra%ion. As you wi~ll ~r~Call, %hi~,~system will greatly ass~s~ ,~n~ the~t~mely and pbs~%i~ i~ti~ie~a~'io~ of persons Who 'are a~re~sted~ AFIS will ~nab~%h%:~%iCe~d~p~rtment to~quickly i'~e~i~Y~a~ grea{er~ nu~er of suspeots and solve more crimes especially', may be dru9 related. Although this sysnem is. an enhancement because of its .automa~ed.(~u~e,r~i<t~ll relieve more costly manpower. Einal~, %s an'; i~n'cent~Ve for the mtn and wom%~ who ~serve as police o~ficers and firefighters to 'continue h~g,her edu~a:~iotn' d~Be pro~rams~. I have included funds tO~ pay edu~a~tOn~'l~-B~Iements' of $500 for those who attain an associates ~eg~ee and $~,O00 '~or offrce~s who-at~t'~ t, he bachelors degree.. 'I feel strongly that'-this desirable beBe~it will serve to ii,crease the educational level of our public saf~ ~r?O~n~eI ~.~le improv~n~ public~ safety services to our - ~ ~ ' Emergency Co~uni~a~ions We haq~¥ over~-the last several yea'rs, planned the full implementa~'~ 0f~the' Computer Aided Di'spatchin~ System (CADS). Duri~ ~e~ hdget year, we have~ renova~e~ the Emergency Opera'~iOn~s installed an 800~.mhz ~(microwa~e:.) trunking -sy I am re~o~ending the fu~l~ ',ADS. With this system our puhli~c safety and o~unicat'ion systems wil~-b~ ,~mQ~e~, ef:fec~V~, ~: reliable ,in r~spond, ing ~t~; ~c~i'zens calls fdi~ionally, this~:~Fstem 'W'f~lt'-~'a~i~w :our ~on~tor public ..~akety .p~s~ ,j~.n~otved in: Sl[uations, i~ that the?i~%iof of tan .aneously'vie'~ed ~on~'~%he "~a~e~ers the CADS' will ,-~r6vid~ '~imely' and ~for~o~n ~on, 'whL~h~ b~se man aq~[r"i~! ' iza~i~ ,time mana~emen~ f analy~ation. ~This char~ o~ Telep~o~e'C emer~n'~,~ 198.9, E-911 automatic Specificall be ,able to calling pa~: rou~e app~o: Portsm~u~h~ ~'s bud~[~t contains a moni~hly 40 ~ent u~,i!itY ~phone~bi'lls that Will, b~'"~ollected by the C & P ~ny %~ ~e~stablish the En'~anCed 91~ :(E-9!:l) ~hon~' ~erv'lce. When ope~ationa~ 'i~ ~e fall of '~11 0f~r automatic numbeC!-~den~I~iica'ti~R,, ation i~entification and' selectiv~ roUt~n~. ,~ with ~his system dispatchers wil~ automatically ~entify the telephone number and location of the ~,, Width selective routing:E-911 ~ill automatically ~ately'19,000 lines for .t~e Chesa~pe -a~ ~ and: Suffolk ~"away from the Portsmout~Pubtic ~{~.'~m~re t~me for our dispatchers ~o nan~l~ ~r~c~ calls.