The Nampa City Council convened on April 8, 2026, to receive annual departmental updates from the Police Department and Animal Control. The meeting began with an invocation led by Councilwoman Scargo. Captain Scolan presented a detailed overview of the police department's operations, goals, staffing needs, and technology initiatives, followed by an update on animal services and the partnership with West Valley Humane Society.
Stand for the invitation and the budget await. Yes. Councilwoman Scargo is going to lead us this morning. Thank you. Henry Father, thank you so much for the opportunity to meet and learn and glean from the police department. We asked that you would be with us, that our um our minds would be clear and that we would be able to come up with solutions that would be the best for our city and our citizens. And we asked these things in Jesus' name. Amen. I plan to just do the United States. Thank you. Yeah, you're up. Yeah, those Renault here. Here. Here. Thank you. The same or not the same name this morning. Our uh discussion is on the we begin our annual department updates, and this morning is police and then animal control. Two great topics, two topics for CC order. Captain Scolan, please take it away. All right. Um thank you, Council President. Uh and council, appreciate the opportunity to be here today. Uh so I'll dive into this presentation. Uh feel free to ask questions along the way. Uh if you have anything, I'll take the time and answer those. I think just go into this is about an hour just to go straight through about a half hour for questions built into it. Um I am going to I I have slides to just go straight into animal control at the end. So I'm gonna just go all the way through that way. Um so we'll start off with our mission statement. Uh, this has been the same mission statement that we've had since Chief Up became chief in 2016. Uh, we we like it because it incorporates our core values of teamwork integrity and excellence right within the mission statement, and it's a guide that we intentionally use um every day, uh whether it's doing performance evaluations just uh on Monday. We had 14 new employees come in. Uh the chief always has agreed with them, takes about five minutes and just welcomes them to the department. But this is what he hits on every single time uh that I've watched him do it. And so from day one, this is important to us. This uh organizational chart is pretty much identical to what you have seen in the budget book from for FY26. Um updated in our organization our organizational structure uh is really based on lieutenants running different divisions within our department. So you'll see we have two administration lieutenants, two CID or investigations lieutenants, and then two patrol lieutenants, and they have different uh work groups beneath them. Some of those work groups are primary assignments, uh, like patrol teams is a primary assignment, um, dispatch is a primary assignment, uh, but then there's also extra duties uh like SOG, which is SWAT, and um a unit that is overseen by a lieutenant, but uh but those are extra duties for officers that are assigned somewhere else. So there's different responsibilities that the lieutenants have, uh but that's how we break down our organization, and that's how it's run. Uh so I'll dive into our um 2026 goals, and I pulled this from our budget book of this year that focused on there were a couple things that that we focused on in terms of software uh and how to improve efficiencies of our agency through the technologies that we've asked council for in the past. Um so I'll I'll have a few slides to talk about each of these things. Um we've had some success in reducing our overtime. Uh um and I think you are all familiar with Compstat. If you haven't come to a CompSTAP meeting, uh Chief encourages you to do that. He's had council members, uh, the mayor come and watch our CompSTAP meetings. Clay has been there too long. Um they're very informative. We meet twice uh or once every other month to go through our crime data and look at what crime trends are. Um our sergeants attend those, so we have an opportunity to interact with them and see what they're doing with uh each of their work groups and how they're being effective at addressing crime problems from the previous time period.