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Cost Accounting – II

Notes The objectives are stated as follows:
 To increase police visibility in the downtown area, and/or in City Parks and the
river corridor when necessary.
 To enhance the innovative image of downtown Dayton.
 To provide effective traffic control to congested downtown areas, or to areas of
special assignment (e.g., sporting events).
 To provide effective crowd management for parades and other social functions
downtown, and in areas of special assignment.

It should be noted that the Parking Control Aid Program was implemented to partially
accomplish the first objective of increasing police visibility. Furthermore, the Parking
Control Aids also provide enforcement of parking restrictions in the downtown area, thus
contributing partially to the accomplishment of the third objective. It should also be noted
that because the major function of the mounted patrol is to increase on-the-street police
visibility, the mounted patrol, like the present walking patrol, will not answer radio
dispatches, especially to in-building locations.
Implementation
Implementations of either of the two mounted patrol alternatives outlined below will
involve certain programmatic costs pertaining to the purchase, outfitting, and maintenance
of horses, the training of horses and riders, the purchase of uniforms, and street cleaning.
Total costs for each alternative are outlined in Part III of this report.
Not included in program cost is the cost of hiring new police personnel, since both
alternatives assume the utilization of personnel already working the downtown area.
Mounted patrolmen would remain under the supervision of present sergeants.

Alternative A: Daytime-Weekday Patrol
This alternative would provide two mounted patrolmen during the day, Monday through
Friday. Such a program would require two police officers, and the purchase of three
horses. The mounted officer would patrol primarily an area bounded by Mounted Avenue
and Fifth Street to the North and South, and Jefferson and Ludlow Streets to the East and
West.
This alternative would accomplish during the daytime the objectives of increasing police
visibility downtown, enhancing Dayton’s innovative image, and providing traffic control
and crowd management when needed.

The total cost of this program alternative is $20,650. This program alternative does not
require expanded street cleaning operations since the patrol will be operative on weekdays
only and this coincides with existing clean-up schedules.

Alternative B: Six-day, Day and Night Patrol
This alternative would provide four mounted patrolmen, Monday through Saturday, two
working during the day and two working in the evening. Such a program would require
five police officers and at least six horses.
Mounted officers would patrol primarily the downtown district as outlined above.
However, those mounted patrolmen scheduled for evening patrol could be assigned to
provide support for Dayton Hydroglobe (Eastwood Lake) Parks, or to areas congested by
heavy traffic or crowds when necessary, or to ceremonial functions.
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