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Police Department MEMORANDUM TO: Pat Klaers FROM: Jeff Beahen DATE: 1-9-03 SUBJECI: Gun Ronge I have put together some figures conc ~=rning the training we do each year for our yearly mandated weapons qualifications. Each officer is required to shoot at a minimum four different times a year under the staml ~ry guidelines. The SWAT team trains each month. Half of those sessions involve weapo training. We currently use the Anoka County Range to train at. Their cost in 2003 is $800 a day. We typically have to use two days to train ~11 our officers. That means that at a minimum, our costs just to rent the range in 2003 wil1 be $6,400. SWAT typically rents the range two additional days adding another $1,600 [to the budget. We do have the option to use the Elk ~dver Sportsman Club, but we are restricted there - not being able to use rifles or semi-automatic weapons. We can also use the gravel pits but of late these have been heavily used a~d not available for our range use. When we conduct a shoot, there woul~t be five patrol officers on duty. the first shoot day as well as our office or administrative staff. The second day shoot would allow five more on- duty officers to train. That means that ~ 1 officers would be on overtime during the training session. In the course of a year, we wo~ld pay (on average) $7,480 in overtime to have these officers trained. If we cut the shoots dgwn to 2-hours we could reduce the overtime to $3,740. Because of the drive time to AOoka, we have found that this is not feasible. With our own indoor range, we can co~duct all but the inclement training here, on-duty and without the payment of either the range fees or the overtime. That equates to a savings of $15,480 a year. It should be noted that because of training budget shortfalls last year, we did not lease any range time. We are currently overdue for our annual training and plan to conduct that at the indoor Maple Grove Training Center in the next 30 days. That range is $150 per hour or $1,200 a day. ' In addition to the illustrated savings, w~ could potentially rent out the range to outside departments. Normal rental rates run from $75 -$150 per hour. We would have to have a