COBI 2015 - Peace Officers' Standards and Training

Overview
Issues
Performance
Background
Financials

Sources Uses

FY 2016 Appropriation

The Peace Officers' Standards and Training (POST) line item is responsible for the basic training in some form of all Utah peace officers. To fulfill this responsibility, POST operates and coordinates all basic recruit training programs for prospective law enforcement officers and an in-service training program for existing law enforcement officers.

Funding History

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Summary of EOCJ November Meeting

Appropriation Overview

During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $4,136,500 from all sources for Peace Officers' Standards and Training. This is an 18.3 percent reduction from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $123,700 from the General/Education Funds, a reduction of 75.3 percent from revised Fiscal Year 2015 estimates.

Appropriation Adjustments

In addition to statewide compensation and internal service fund cost increases, the following appropriation adjustments were made during the 2015 General Session:

DescriptionOngoingOne-Time POST Shortfall$0$500,000

OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source

$0$500,000General Fund, One-time

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Staff Analysis

The bulk of the funding for this program comes from the General Fund Restricted - Public Safety Support Account. The revenue comes from the criminal surcharge. Surcharge collections have dropped by about 5% in this last year. Operations may be affected in the case there is not supplemental funding in FY 2014. This fund has not collected as much as anticipated in recent years and was short an estimated $400,000 for each of the past 2 years there may be an issue of long-term reduced collections to the account which would lead to reducued available revenue to operate the program.

For measuring performance, the Peace Officers' Standards and Training (POST) investigates incidents of misconduct by POST certified officers and strives to ensure that all POST certified officers are trained as required by statute. There are two metrics to measure these activities. They are respectively: (1) POST Council ratification and (2) the officer training hours statute compliance rate. Measurements are included below.

Statute

Statutory Authority for POST is found in UCA 53-6.

The POST Council, which includes representatives from a broad spectrum of law enforcement interests, sets the standards for peace officer certification and review. The restricted funds that support POST training are from the Public Safety Support Fund, which is financed by surcharges on criminal fines.

POST was created to ensure uniform and high quality standards and training for Utah law enforcement officers. POST also certifies certain academic and other agencies to provide training under programs reviewed and certified by POST.

Intent Language

HB0003: Item 28

Under section 63J-1-603 of the Utah Code, the Legislature intends that appropriations provided for The Department of Public Safety -Peace Officers' Standards and Training line item not lapse at the close of Fiscal Year 2015.

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Programs	FY11 Actual	FY12 Actual	FY13 Actual	FY14 Actual	FY15 Approp	FY15 Change	FY15 Revised	FY16 Change	FY16 Approp
Basic Training	1,603,500	1,631,400	1,812,500	1,745,300	1,728,400	1,044,100	2,772,500	(995,300)	1,777,200
Regional/Inservice Training	715,900	619,300	700,600	672,100	781,700	0	781,700	17,500	799,200
POST Administration	1,078,800	1,392,800	1,284,800	1,367,600	1,507,800	0	1,507,800	52,300	1,560,100
Grants	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Police Corps Academy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	$3,398,200	$3,643,500	$3,797,900	$3,785,000	$4,017,900	$1,044,100	$5,062,000	($925,500)	$4,136,500

Sources of Finance	FY11 Actual	FY12 Actual	FY13 Actual	FY14 Actual	FY15 Approp	FY15 Change	FY15 Revised	FY16 Change	FY16 Approp
General Fund	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	91,200	91,200
General Fund, One-time	0	0	0	400,000	0	500,000	500,000	(467,500)	32,500
Dedicated Credits Revenue	36,800	48,100	32,000	63,600	45,400	0	45,400	10,600	56,000
GFR - Public Safety Support	3,637,300	3,676,100	3,668,100	3,908,300	3,972,500	0	3,972,500	(15,700)	3,956,800
Transfers	0	0	0	0	0	500,000	500,000	(500,000)	0
Beginning Nonlapsing	200,000	414,000	398,300	12,200	0	44,100	44,100	(44,100)	0
Closing Nonlapsing	(414,000)	(398,200)	(12,200)	(44,100)	0	0	0	0	0
Lapsing Balance	(61,900)	(96,500)	(288,300)	(555,000)	0	0	0	0	0
Total	$3,398,200	$3,643,500	$3,797,900	$3,785,000	$4,017,900	$1,044,100	$5,062,000	($925,500)	$4,136,500

Categories of Expenditure	FY11 Actual	FY12 Actual	FY13 Actual	FY14 Actual	FY15 Approp	FY15 Change	FY15 Revised	FY16 Change	FY16 Approp
Personnel Services	2,536,000	2,671,700	2,867,400	2,767,700	2,900,600	517,100	3,417,700	(382,300)	3,035,400
In-state Travel	9,600	20,100	21,400	17,900	21,400	(3,500)	17,900	0	17,900
Out-of-state Travel	9,500	12,100	6,300	0	6,400	(6,400)	0	0	0
Current Expense	494,800	564,400	605,500	580,300	595,700	177,000	772,700	(47,600)	725,100
DP Current Expense	262,200	350,000	278,300	419,100	294,500	59,200	353,700	4,400	358,100
DP Capital Outlay	60,000	0	0	0	167,300	(167,300)	0	0	0
Capital Outlay	8,100	12,300	6,100	0	6,100	(6,100)	0	0	0
Other Charges/Pass Thru	18,000	12,900	12,900	0	25,900	474,100	500,000	(500,000)	0
Total	$3,398,200	$3,643,500	$3,797,900	$3,785,000	$4,017,900	$1,044,100	$5,062,000	($925,500)	$4,136,500

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Other Indicators	FY11 Actual	FY12 Actual	FY13 Actual	FY14 Actual	FY15 Approp	FY15 Change	FY15 Revised	FY16 Approp
Budgeted FTE	31.20	28	29	23	26.50	0.50	27	27
Actual FTE	30.80	31.70	33.10	33.50	0	0	0	0
Vehicles	60	61	54	52	61	(9)	52	52

COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.