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  ESTABLISHED  AND  ORDAINED  BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that this ordinance shall take effect from the date of its passage.

 

 

 

EXPLANATION

CAPITAL LETTERS indicate matter added to existing law.

Strikethrough indicates matter stricken from existing law.

Underlining indicates amendments