File #: O-23-17    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted
File created: 4/11/2017 In control: City Council
On agenda: 5/22/2017 Final action: 5/22/2017
Title: Certificate of Adequate Public Facilities - Police Protection - For the purpose of defining "police officer" as that term is used in connection with review criteria and certification for adequate police protection under Chapter 22.14.
Sponsors: Jared Littmann, Ian Pfeiffer
Indexes: Public Safety Committee, Rules and City Government Committee, Transportation Committee
Attachments: 1. O-23-17 Police Officer Defined Chapter 22-14.pdf, 2. O-23-17 Staff Report.pdf, 3. O-23-17 Fiscal Impact.pdf, 4. O-23-17 SIGNED.pdf
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Certificate of Adequate Public Facilities - Police Protection - For the purpose of defining "police officer" as that term is used in connection with review criteria and certification for adequate police protection under Chapter 22.14.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis

Ordinance 23-17

Introduced by: Alderman Littmann and Alderman Pfeiffer

Referred to
Rules and City Government Committee
Transportation Committee


AN ORDINANCE concerning

Certificate of Adequate Public Facilities - Police Protection

FOR the purpose of defining "police officer" as that term is used in connection with review criteria and certification for adequate police protection under Chapter 22.14.

BY repealing and re-enacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2016 Edition
22.14.040


SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:

TITLE 22 - ADEQUATE PUBLIC FACILITIES

Chapter 22.14 - REVIEW CRITERIA AND CERTIFICATION FOR ADEQUATE POLICE PROTECTION

Section 22.14.040 - Standards.

A. FOR PURPOSES OF CHAPTER 22.14 ONLY, "POLICE OFFICER" MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS: (1) CERTIFIED BY THE MARYLAND POLICE AND TRAINING STANDARDS COMMISSION; AND (2) EMPLOYED BY THE ANNAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT.

AB. The standards required to be promulgated pursuant to Section 22.08.010, shall include but not be limited to:

1. Officer Ratio. The ratio of police officers authorized in the current City budget to City residents shall not be less than 3.2 officers per every one thousand City residents.
2. Average Response Time. The average response time within the City shall not be greater than two minutes and thirty seconds for a priority one emergency response and for the initial annual period. Any subsequent average response time shall not increase more than ten percent from the annual period immediately prior.


SECTION II: AND BE IT FURTHER ESTA...

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