Goal Oriented Enforcement Planning

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Goal Oriented Enforcement Planning

• Southeast Spring Bear Program

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Program Overview

• An ambitious and comprehensive big game
  enforcement program for all of Southeast, except
  Yakutat, from 4/21/03 to 5/22/03 involving 4
  agencies and 35 Law Enforcement Officers.

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Program Goals

• Determined in joint agency planning meeting with
  USFS

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Primary Goal

• Increase the total number of hunter field
  contacts with focus on identifying illegal
  transporter and guide operations

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Secondary Goals

• Establish violation benchmark data to use for
  future program evaluation
• Shooting from boat violations
• POW road system steelhead enforcement
• POW multi-day halibut charter fleet enforcement

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Program Measures

• 1 Desire is to evaluate value/effectiveness of
  the program

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Measures

• 20 increase in hunter contacts
• Generation of WIB Intel forms for every hunter
  contact to be used for a follow-up survey at the
  end of the program
• Follow-up investigation from WIB Intel forms for
  violations not identified in the field

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Measures (cont.)

• The computation of cost per violation in time and
  funding for the program to be used for future
  planning and evaluation.

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Why these measures?

• Develop more specific information for future
  program planning
• Because this is new
• Information will be used to develop next years
  plan.
• Refine and Identify program needs (eg, OT)
• Conservative w/ OT needs for Detach. Personnel
• Which areas had highest violations

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2000 Black bear harvest statistics
ADFG sealing records
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Registered brown bear hunters for 2000
ADFG Permit records
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2000 Brown bear harvest stats
ADFG sealing records
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Time Line / Key events

• 4/21 - Start Program
• 5/1 - TDY personnel
• Arrival, briefing, and insertion of TDY personnel
• Computation of stats (payroll / vessel days)
• 5/3-5/7 - A Detach. Mid-program break
• 5/7 - Re-insertion of A Detach. Troopers

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Time Line / Key events

• 5/13-5/14 - Coordinate extraction of TDY
  personnel
• 5/22 - End of Program
• Computation of stats
• 5/25 - Start surveys
• Note Covert Ops to be determined

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Other Agency Support

• USFS
• 8 LEOs
• Special Agent
• 23 foot Camper
• 3 vessels
• 7 Admin and rec. cabins
• Contract Premium pay
• Beaver Aircraft ??

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Other Agency Support

• USFWS
• Special Agent
• NMFS
• 2 Special Agents (Ketchikan and Sitka)
• Ketchikan and Sitka patrol vessels

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DPS Resource Support

• 6 TDY Troopers
• 2 State Pilots
• 1 WIB Investigator
• 206 Aircraft from Kodiak
• All A Detachment personnel, vessels, and
  aircraft
• King Air

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Program Costs

• Specifically dedicated to the program
• 20,000 in premium pay
• 1,000 in supplies
• 2,000 in travel
• A Detachment
• 12,646 in premium pay
• 92 Sea Days
• Vessel supply budgets for fuel and groceries
• Detachment Supply budget for groceries
  (El Capitan, Kake, and Hoonah)

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Program Challenges

• Variety of patrol modes (vehicle, vessel, and
  aircraft)
• Remote
  locations
• Multi-agency
  operations
• Coordination
• Therefore

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Personnel Requests

• Specific personnel requested due to local
  knowledge and specialized skills
• Dennis Roe (D Detach)
• Alan Jones (C Detach)
• Todd Mountain (B Detach)
• Greg Garcia (D Detach)
• Tony Beck (B Detach)

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Program Closure

• Follow-up hunter surveys
• Follow-up investigations
• Data analysis
• Program evaluation
• Multi-agency debriefing

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