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Memo
To: Mayor and Council Members
From: Chief Dwight Pfannenstein
Date: November 14, 2019
Re: Monthly Police Department Report
Mayor Schultz and members of the St. Joseph City Council,
Fall is always an exciting and busy time in the police department. As summer vacations come to a close and
hunting trips are in progress we also have the return of the college students, fall cleanups and preparation for
winter. The men and women of the police department have been working very hard at keeping up with the
calls for assistance that sure seem to pick up drastically with the return of all these individuals.
In the summer months without student traffic:
July we took call 19801588 to 19801861 a total of 273 calls for assistance.
August we took call number 19801862 to 19802112 a total of 250 calls for assistance.
However, with the return of students these are the numbers we see:
September we took call 19802113 to 19802444 a total of 331 calls for assistance
October we took call 19802445 to 19802773 a total of 328 calls for assistance.
Although 75 to 80 additional calls may not seem like that large of increase without going in very deep, there
are many of these calls that require a lot more than showing up and locating a barking dog, suspicious
vehicle, fingerprinting, or fraud complaints. Often these extra ICRs require hours more of officer and office
time to complete with Domestic assaults, sexual assaults, intoxicated individuals, thefts, loud parties, as well
as transports outside the city to Stearns Jail, St. Cloud Hospital, or St. Cloud Detox all of which drastically cuts
into our availability and coverage at any given point in the city. Currently Marybeth Munden has not been
able to input any of the October ICRs into records. The level of data requests for statements, reports, body
camera and in squad camera video is never ending and is almost a full time job in and of itself besides dealing
with the daily front walk up window traffic as well as answering the phone.
On 11/13/2019 at 730 pm, Mayor Schultz and I had the opportunity to attend a joint session of the CSB/SJU
student senate to brainstorm on improving relations between students and residents as well as law
enforcement. All parties agreed this is a very challenging and ever changing topic and difficult come up with
a single solution that all sides would come out a winner.
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On October Wednesdays October 16 and 23, all members of the St. Joseph Police Department attended
free training in Sauk Rapids that I signed up for last October in which they received 6 hrs of Implicit Bias
training to work towards the 16 hrs total required by MN POST board. POST requires that all licensed officers
receive 16 hrs training in the areas of Implicit Bias, Crisis Intervention, and Mental Health and must have at
least an hour in each every 3 years.