 Peter Cruz Jr. on the air for a call that's been holding more than an hour. Do you have a uniform card that can come here and cover us Code 9? Sir, I have no cards available. Hello again everybody and welcome to DPDTV. I'm Sergeant Warnacky with our third and final segment on police response times. Many people know the economic recession was difficult on many organizations, and the Denver Police Department was no exception. 9-1-1 call takers are down, police dispatchers are down, but there's good news on the horizon. We have a class that started yesterday, so we're really happy to have them here, and unfortunately they're not going to be a value to us as far as somebody actually doing the job and dispatching officers for six to nine months. It's the same situation for police officers, almost down a hundred positions. It also takes them nine months to get ready for action. We have less officers to be able to send a dispatch to pending calls, so we have to work really diligent to dispatch the high priority calls first because we can only do so much with the amount of officers that we have. And that's led to questions about today's response times, so I sat down with Chief Robert White to talk to him about it. Chief, our response time is slower today, and if so, why? You know, I think it's important that we're transparent, and we acknowledge that there's a challenge as well as self-response times. I think it's equally important for the men and women in our department and the community to know that we are addressing that issue. We've done some things, the team policing, civilianization which permits us to put sworn officers in those precincts that has reduced the delay in response times that would have been greater even if we had not made those changes. I also asked Chief White about team policing, which involves officer scheduling and its effect on response times. While there have certainly been some that criticize team policing and even contribute the slow response time to team policing, there couldn't be anything further from the truth. As a matter of fact, we've done an analysis of team policing and response times prior to putting team policing in place. And if we hadn't made the changes to team policing and some of the other changes that we made, response times would actually even be higher. Thanks to the citizens voting for 2A and thanks for the mayor and the council support. We have two classes in the academy that will graduate in October. We will have a third class in the academy this year that will start in December. And I'm very hopeful as we go into 2014, we'll have an additional two classes in the academy also. On behalf of the Denver Police Department, we hope you have a better understanding of all of the things it takes to get help to you. And remember, we're here for your comments. We'll see you next time.