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I. Safety. Crime and Drug Prevention. Park Rules. and Police Involvement <br /> 1. Provide additional law and park rules enforcement, including contract police services <br /> and intermediate forms of enforcement with good interface with the police. Possibilities <br /> are: civilian park guides, private security, and other measures. <br /> We believe the best idea to explore here is contracted private security. Civilian guides, such as <br /> the Downtown Mall guides, do not have enforcement authority; their purpose is to inform people <br /> of the rules and to serve as the eyes and ears of the police. Enforcement of laws and park rules <br /> still usually means a call for police response. Moreover, many of the contacts in Scobert Park <br /> have been quite confrontational, and we do not support sending civilian guides or volunteers into <br /> those kinds of situations. There are two issues with contracted private security: cost; and quality <br /> and professionalism of the security company and its employees. There is no ready answer right <br /> now for either of these. Yet effective private security could provide an intermediate response to <br /> rules violations and decrease the need for police presence, and so we will pursue this option. <br /> 2. Ask City Council to pass large single - serving and fortified alcohol (beer and wines) sales <br /> ban in the neighborhood. <br /> We support this recommendation. A first step may be to try for voluntary compliance from the <br /> stores in the area. We understand that at least one store owner has said he will stop selling <br /> single - serving and fortified alcohol if all the other stores will. If we cannot achieve voluntary <br /> compliance, the next step would be to gain City Council approval to draft an ordinance. <br /> 3. Provide regular police officer foot or bicycle patrols in the neighborhood around Scobert <br /> Park When the Whiteaker Public Safety Station (one block south) is open, one of the <br /> officers assigned there could periodically patrol the park Undercover police officers <br /> could patrol on bicycles. <br /> We currently have one police officer, Jennifer Bills, assigned to the Whiteaker Public Safety <br /> station. Officer Bills' scheduled hours are 9:OOam to 5:OOpm, Monday through Friday. She <br /> already patrols Scobert Park on foot, bicycle, and by car, as her schedule permits, as does the <br /> beat patrol officer assigned to the Whiteaker area. In addition, we have had some undercover and <br /> Rapid Deployment Team operations at Scobert Park. We plan more of those this summer. <br /> Realistically, this level of police presence is about all we can provide right now. We are still <br /> about four months away from being up to full strength in street patrol officers, when a new <br /> recruit class of eleven will begin working as patrol officers. <br /> Whiteaker is already the most heavily patrolled area in the city. Moreover, unlike five or ten <br /> years ago, when we might have one "hot spot" like Scobert Park in the city at a time, today we <br /> have multiple simultaneous hot spots requiring police attention. East 13th Street, Skinners Butte, <br /> and the Downtown Mall are three examples. If our main strategy in these areas is a traditional <br /> 1 <br />