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RESOLUTION NO. 71-42
A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE PROPOSED CHANGES
IN LAW ENFORCEMENT WITHIN BREVARD COUNTY,
WITH EXCEPTION, AS SUBMITTED BY THE BREVARD
COUNTY CHIEFS OF POLICE ASSOCIATION.
WHEREAS, the Brevard County Chiefs of Police Association
has made certain recommendations for change in law enforcement in
Brevard County; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of Cape Canaveral recognizes
that these changes were made after careful research and deliberation by
that Association; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Cape Canaveral,
Florida, agrees that these law enforcement changes will more efficiently
serve the needs of the citizens of Cape Canaveral and all of Brevard
County;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Cape Canaveral,
Florida, hereby supports the proposed changes in law enforcement within
Brevard County, in its entirety, as submitted by the Brevard County Chiefs
of Police Association on November 8, 1971, a copy of which is hereto
attached and made part hereof, with the exception of paragraph 3 thereof.
SECTION 2. This Resolution shall become effective immediately
upon its adoption by the City Council of the City of Cape Canaveral,
Florida.
A(OPTED by the City Council of the City of Cape Canaveral,
Florida, this 4th day of January, p72.
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II PROPOSED CHANGES IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
WITHIN BREVARD COUNTY
November 8, 1971
Pleaso accept this as an amended form to our original proposal for
changes in law enforcement as submitted on September 8, 1971.
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1. it IT IS RECOMMENDED that a law be passed giving police officers in municipalities
county wide peace officer rights, within and outside of their jurisdictions, within
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This would enable a police officer of a municipality to continue his investigation or
incident from his city to another jurisdiction when the investigation, or incidart, so
demands,
v/ A study is currently under way into the establishment end creation of a
Brovard County investigative Squad by the Bravard County Chiefs of Police and she
Sheriff of Brevard County.
IT IS RECOMMENDED that all municipal jails be abolished as detention censers except
for temporary holding facilities.
In their stead a centrally located institution should be initiated which woJld
not only detain prisoners, but would rehabilitate them. FBI records disclose that seven
out of every ten prisoners are repeaters. In other wards, out of every ten priscners
coming into jail for the first time, seven of them will come back. it is behoved shot
with rehabilitation and recreation facilities this repeater percentage would c..roc:ed.
Incarcerating a person solely for the purpose of taking him from society for a given
period of time causes the person to be bitter toward society and 70% of these raturn to
crime.
It This institution could be a state operated regional correctional institution
as proposed by Attorney General Robert Shevin, or it could be county malmolred. This
could be another Brevard First. The present county jail should continue to be r..aintainaa
�i for top or tight security confinements for short periods of time. It is recomr„erced,
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however, that one authority operate both facilities, whether state or county, -.-r a
it correctional or rehabilitation department, separated from any low enforcement agency.
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3. j' IT 15 RECOMMENDED That /Committing Magistrates- lrssi;,cad to preside over all
!'.violations of municipal ordinances brought into Magistrates Courts by tkc policeren a:
Since the writing of this recommendation Brevard County hes been recor. —ndti to Y.:a
l�I legislature by the Division of Corrections as the site for the first pilot pro5rom far a
Regional Jail.
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IT IS RECOMMENDED that the office of sheriff remain constitutional and elective,
and that the election be hnld on a non - partisan basis.
IT IS RECOMMENDED that a Central Records system be set up to be utilized by
all law enforcement agencies in the county.
This records system would include a computer system with terminal blocks
In each police department and the sheriffs department. Records and forms should
be standardized for use by all agencies, and codes should be standardized.
IT IS RECOMMENDED that all felonies be indictable before a Grand Jury .
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