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Date: To: From: Reft 09-27-96 CMefAuspos Sergeant Oustafson Ryan Schroeder Tim Dwyer Proposal for Evidence Room in New'PD: Attached you will find a proposal for the New PD evidence room. I took the liberty of touring and o r inquiring with other local agencies as far as the set up of their evidence rooms and procedures for handling the property. · I found that all departments have res~cted access to their secure evidence rooms. Officers complete an evidence log and put it and the evidence ha a locker outside the main evidence door. Each department has persons responsible for the placing this evidence in the secure/restricted access evidence room. Elk River PD has a rotating Investigtor schedule, where that Inve.stigator is in charge of placing and removing property from/to the room. Anoka PD puts their CSOs~'charge of the evidence room; no one including supervisors, has access to the room. I would suggest we find an in-between here. We need to have at-least (3) if not (4) people, who would have access to the room. Most of the time, an officer knows in advance and should make pr/or arrangements, for the reh-ieval of evidence needed for court. I would suggest that the Investigator, at-least one supervisor, and Arlene, have access to our evidence room for the retrieval of property as needed by patrol staff. In either event, this can be determined by PD adminisn'ators later. You will see that this plan allows for a 22'7 X 19'8 Secure, Limited Access Evidence Room. (4) lockers from our existing squad room could be placed outside the main door for Officers to place evidence in. This evidence would later be placed in designated areas by the person or persons in charge of the evidence room. The plan also allows for a 11 '8 X 27'0 Secure Property Room for general found property or property not of evidentiary value. All PD staffwould have access to this room. This would also serve as orderly storage area for our DARE and Bike Rodeo supplies. I designated an area for the storage of bicycles. Currently our PD stores found or recovered bicycles outside in an unsecure area, this due to limited space. Most of the bicycles placed there are of little value, but occasionally we pick up nicer, more 9aluabte bikes, which are very appealing to the groups of younger people who hang around or pass by City Hall. Someone might pick up a real nice bike, courtesy of the PD. All departments that I spoke with have a dry, secure storage area for bicycles. Most are part of their garages. In an effort not to clutter the garage space and risk damaging squads, I set aside this area for bicycle storage. The dimensions of this room will still allow for a future 14 X 11'8 room North of this newly installed wall. Plenty of room for offices/training room etc. This plan would require the b:uilding of(2) studded, sheet rocked walls, (1) steel door, and a i I'8 X 9'5 high section of chain link fence W/a gate (to be paddle locked). The proposal request would be to have Sharp and his crew build the above and have a sub-contractor do the fencing. A second option, would be to build ~i studded wail instead of the chain-link. ' The shelving and locker installment in the evidence rooms would be built and installed by PD staffto suit our needs. I I I I I I I I I I I I i I I I I I