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being done at the rank and file level in order for the officers to notice. If I cannot rely on my admin. staff to see to it that the officers in their charge are following the chain of command then those managers are not benefiting this department or this community. 7. Providing false information to the City Council regarding deployment and assignment matters. -I have not given false information to the City Council in regards to the deployment of personnel. When the M.E.T. unit was absorbed into the Patrol Division it did in fact increase the amount of officers on the street. I provided handouts to the City Council showing this. The officers main concern about this is that I added Animal Control Officers and Traffic Officers into the shift schedule with the additional officers from the M.E.T. unit. The traffic officers are in marked units and provide a service to the community. The presence of additional officers on the street deters crime. The Animal Control Officers also provide a service and their existence on the shift schedule was to show that there was seven day coverage. 8. The elimination of the Multiple Enforcement Team and Bike Teams, which were instrumental in providing community oriented police services. -I will address the Bike Team issue first. This "Team" was not eliminated, it is being expanded to include training as many officers as possible in bicycle patrol. Since the patrol shifts have been increased the watch commanders will have the manpower to send two or more officers out on bike patrol. I have hit a snag in my plan since we are at the end of this fiscal years budget and all training not already scheduled has been canceled. I will however begin to send officers to this training once the new budget has been approved. Evidence that the bike patrol still exists was seen at this past weekends Cinco de Mayo festivities held at Veteran's Park. Two bike patrol officers worked that event. We will continue to use them as necessary in such events. Once a majority of the patrol officers are trained in this field you will begin to see them on a more frequent basis with in the community. All I ask is that the City Council and citizens bare with me and give me the opportunity to set these plans into motion (which is more than my officers have done). -As far as the M.E.T. unit being part of a community oriented policing philosophy, it is a band aid approach to it at best. The way this team was used has no benefits whatsoever to the community oriented policing philosophy. WHAT IS COMMUNITY ORIENTED/PROBLEM SOLVING POLICING? Some members of this department claim that we have implemented C.O.P.P.S. by the mere fact that we had a M.E.T. team. C.O.P.P.S. is a philosophy of policing based on the