Police chief Adrian Diaz blames Seattle Police's slow 911 response times on the ongoing staffing crisis affecting his department. Efforts to beef up incentives and retention bonuses through the city council have largely floundered. FOX13
's slow 911 response times on the ongoing staffing crisis affecting his department. Efforts to beef up incentives and retention bonuses through the city council have largely floundered.
He told the council how he’s had to move more people to patrol to lower 911 call-response times, and those patrol officers are burning out, working lots of overtime just to handle the bare minimum of calls. "Our revenues are not matching our general fund spending," said council member Teresa Mosqueda. "That money could be used next year".
But when council member Alex Pederson asked Greg Doss, a council staff member, if the city had an alternative police response in place, the answer was no. Diaz told the county that priority one 911 calls, the most urgent calls where a person’s physical wellbeing could be in danger, have risen.
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