The Eugene Police Department Strategic Plan’s evaluation phase is on track for meeting the department’s goals and for providing more public accountability, according to the quarterly report presented to the City of Eugene Police Commission on Thursday night.
The plan, adopted Dec. 31, 2005, aims to prioritize EPD’s existing services, improve performance and provide a method for reporting EPD’s priorities, accomplishments and challenges to the public. It was created with involvement and review by EPD supervisors, policy and governing employees and from the public.
The plan includes a list of items raised by the International Cities and Counties Management
Association and the Police Executive Research Forum, which reviews EPD’s recruitment, hiring practices, training, internal affairs procedures, supervision and management. That action plan came in response to the sentencing of former EPD officer Roger Magana, who was convicted in 2004 for 42 offenses including rape, kidnapping and sexual assault.
EPD’s strategic plan includes summaries on overall performances by police divisions including the
Office of the Chief, Patrol Division and the Investigations Division. The plan also includes reports on developing a new training program and hiring program, based on recommendations by the ICMA/PERF Action Plan.
Eugene Police Chief Robert Lehner said the EPD has 11 new trainees in the police academy and that they have authorization to hold a new academy in the fall.
The strategic plan reported that the timeline for achieving some mid-term and long-term initiatives, such as creating a consistent turnaround time for submission and completion of Forensic Evidence Unit processing from six weeks to less than three weeks, may need to be readjusted.
The plan is available on the EPD’s Web site at www.eugene-or.gov.