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​​​​Public Safety - ​

​Preserve law and order.​ Focus on recrui​tmen​t and retention of high-quality emergency responders. Lower Crime rates and increase active policing throughout the community.

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  ​          Mayor Bronso​​n continues to focus on enhancing our p​ublic safety resource​s including our police, fire, and health departments. The public safety departments are focused on ensuring a safe and vibrant community through community policing and maintaining a high degree of public security and low crime.

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Department Goals that Contribute to Achieving​​ the Mayor's Mission:

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Development Services Department​

  • Continue to make progress eliminating duplicate street names to ensure the uniqueness of each address, thereby improving E911 response times.

Fire Department

  • Improve outcomes for sick, injured, and endangered victims.
  • Reduce fire damage, eliminate fire deaths and injuries.
  • Maintain one of the highest cardiac arrest survival rates in the nation.
  • Maintain the highest rating from Insurance Services Office Fire Suppression.
  • Timely and effective response.

 

Maintenance & Operations Department

  • Support the efficient, safe operations of emergency services by providing expeditious maintenance of public safety mission critical infrastructure with a goal of 100% reliability.​

Municipal Manager Department - Transportation Inspection Division

  •  Protect the safety and welfare of the regulated vehicle customers.​

Parks & Recreation Department

  • Coordination with APD and the administration to promptly respond to the camp abatement process.
  • Maintain vegetation within public space to open sight lines for public safety while reducing the likelihood of hidden and illegal camps.​

Police Department

  • Aggressively investigate and pursue violent criminals, specifically those involved in gun crime, drug trafficking and gang violence.
  • Disrupt and intervene in illegal drug production, manufacturing, importation, or distribution; address drug-related activities that are having a significant harmful impact at the neighborhood level.
  • Effectively partner with other governmental and community stakeholders to ensure the appropriate resources are available to assist individuals who are experiencing homelessness, mental illness, and substance abuse. Individuals in these communities are disproportionately impacted by crime. Intervene appropriately to address victimization and to hold offenders accountable.
  • Reduce violence against women and children and strengthen services to victims of domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking.

Public Transportation Department

  • Provide public transportation services which are safe, convenient, accessible and reliable.
  • Ensure vehicles, bus stops, and transit assets are maintained in an accessible, safe, and reliable condition.
  • Implement a transit safety and security program.
  • Provide operator safety and training.​
  • ​​Maintain enhanced COVID-19 cleaning protocols for vehicles and facilities.