Title
South Suburban Emergency Response Team - Approval
History
The police department has operated our Special Response Team (SRT) for over twenty-five years and during that time, the team has operated efficiently and effectively whenever called upon.
The cost of maintaining the team of over twenty officers has increased dramatically due to enhanced nationally recommended training standards, which will cause a severe strain on our resources and our ability to train at this level and at the same time not adversely affect day-to-day operations.
These considerations have caused us to review other options for SRT support. After thorough analysis and investigation, it is our recommendation that we disband our team and join the South Suburban Emergency Response Team (SSERT) a regional team in the south suburbs representing over thirty communities with close to 100 officers assigned to it. The South Suburban Emergency Response Team (SSERT) will provide our community with excellent response to high risk natural or man made occurrences. They are well trained, well equipped and highly motivated. We are confident that SSERT will provide the same high level of protection that we have been accustomed to with our own team.
We will assign a minimum of two of our trained SRT members to the team who will train a minimum of two days per month and be fully integrated into the team.
Workman’s compensation insurance and liability insurance is the responsibility of each municipality for its members just like the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force.
On April 13, 2009, this item was reviewed and approved by the Public Safety Committee and referred to the Board for approval.
Financial Impact
The annual fee is $1,000.00, which will be paid from asset forfeiture funds.
Recommended Action/Motion
I move to approve that the police department be allowed to join the South Suburban Emergency Response Team (SSERT)
and
To approve the intergovernmental agreement between ...
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