Common use of Detective Redeployment Clause in Contracts

Detective Redeployment. All employees assigned as detectives (investigators) shall work one (1) day per month in the patrol function of the Field Operations Bureau pursuant to a schedule as determined by the Chief of Police or his designee. Once each calendar year the Chief of Police shall conduct a review of the organization of the Police Department to determine whether positions and assignments currently in the Investigations Bureau represent a deployment of resources that best enables the department to provide police services to the city. The Chief of Police may, as a result of this review, remove positions and assignments from the Investigations Bureau and assign them, and the individuals who occupy them, to other bureaus or eliminate them and assign the individuals who occupy them to other positions and assignments in the department. The annual review and any re-assignment made as a result of the review shall be completed, including the appeal thereof outlined below, sufficiently in advance of the annual patrol deployment sign-up to enable those who will be assigned to Patrol to make use of their seniority when choosing patrol shifts and days off. Any employee who is informed that he or she will be removed from the Investigations Bureau and lose the Investigations assignment pay differential may appeal to the Chief of Police. Said appeal constitutes the sole administrative appeal of the Chief’s decision, shall be conducted in an informal manner and the decision of the Chief shall be final.