The Forest Lake city-police reconciliation and analysis process took another step at the City Council’s July 24 meeting, when the council approved the selection of a firm to provide an organizational and staffing evaluation of the Police Department.
Obtaining a consultant to offer analysis and feedback on Police Department operations was one of the tenets of the contract agreement the city reached with police labor unions in May. The contract effectively ended the city’s early 2017 exploration of using contract law enforcement services instead of the Police Department. In addition to analyzing how the department functions and is staffed now, City Administrator Aaron Parrish said, the evaluation could help the city come up with a methodology for handling future changes in the number of proposed police staff.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Contrary to the suggestion of a post being passed around on social media in the days following the meeting, the evaluation was not initiated by
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