| The Metropolitan Police Department transferred a portion of the Third Police District to the Second District on Sunday, September 2, 2007. Police Service Area (PSA) 306 was renamed PSA 208 and transferred administratively to the Second Police District. The move was a response to an increase in calls for service and crime in the Third District. The physical boundaries of the police service area remain the same, but the organizational change enables better coordination of service, communication, and management of resources.
The change helped to resolve a workload imbalance between the Second District (2D), which handles just 4.5% of “Priority 1” (emergency) calls, and the Third District (3D), which previously accounted for over 21% of these calls. Similarly, 3D had 24.2% of the violent crime in the city, while 2D accounted for 3.2%. As the number of crimes increased in the Third District, the amount of radio traffic also increased exponentially, reducing the effectiveness of police communications. Additionally, the strain on structural resources such as the use of district lockup facilities, report-writing rooms, and other elements of the police stations is similarly imbalanced in the present arrangement. Managerial resources will also be improved in the new scenario.
The move transferred a total of 78 personnel — including officers, sergeants, and lieutenants currently assigned to PSA 306 — to the Second District. The police coverage in this part of the city remained nearly identical to what existed previously; the change is strictly an organizational one.
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Boundaries of PSA 208, effective September 2, 2007.
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