Attached you will find the 2018 Flagstaff Police Department Annual Report. This past year has been a challenging one for our department. We lost 10 officers through attrition (resignations, retirements, etc.) and as a result, the Department functioned more than 1/3 down in patrol throughout most of the year. To meet the demands of calls for service and our mission of preserving life, property, and public order, we kept most specialty assignments vacant to keep our patrol division whole. Our response time to emergencies remained well below national averages in 2018. Our increased recruitment efforts and incentives resulted in the hiring of 20 new Officers in 2018, and toward the end of the year, our staffing began to improve. The improved staffing allowed for increased investment in proactive directed patrol efforts and self-initiated activities like field interviews and traffic stops. We were also able to re-staff our community policing squad in the Sunnyside neighborhood.
