The cost of policing is being driven higher not only by an increasing number of calls that deal with mental health issues.
Police Chief John Bates says with technology the investigations are becoming more complex and, as such, more expensive to carry out.
He points out a whole library of information can be kept on one person’s cellphone and an investigator has to sift through all that information with the police department only having a finite number of investigators.
The Chair of the Police Commission, Anne Marie Mullen, meantime, is urging Common Council to appoint a new member to fill a vacancy on the Commission.
