"Seattle Interim Police Chief Adrian Diaz announced an update to a new program to get more officers on the streets — a reallocation of resources that the chief says is working. One hundred officers and 10 sergeants are on a mission for the Seattle Police Department to lower the response time for the highest priority and most severe 911 calls.

The so-called "Community Response Group" will respond to patrol calls and will be placed in areas that are experiencing a spike in crime.

“We’ve had a couple of demonstrations that we literally had to pull every officer out of patrol to respond," said Diaz. "When it comes to situations like that, where you have no one responding out to if there was a shooting, a robbery, a rape, or whatever call that might end up being, that’s a problem."

The responding officers have volunteered to step away from special assignments and are now focusing on clearing the call sheets. These units include those assigned to DUI, domestic violence, crisis intervention and other specialized assignments. Since its formation just a week ago, Diaz said his officers have responded to more than 400 calls and dropped response time for 911 calls from seven minutes to six. This is not intended to be a permanent solution to what the chief said is an ongoing staffing issue. Diaz said he plans to run this through the end of 2020 and then reevaluate in the new year."

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