Administration Division

Police Chief Jack Cauley oversees the Administration Division

This division includes the police chief, a senior media relations specialist, an administrative supervisor, and a senior office assistant.

The division is responsible for providing:

• Overall direction to the agency and personnel

• Ensuring quality police service to residents and business owners

• Managing the department’s budget and purchasing

• Messaging for the department (e.g., social media, news releases, media requests)

• Public Safety Commission liaison

• Disseminating department’s TRAKiT issues, received through the Town’s Report a Concern

The department’s actual expenses from the amended $20,476,608 budget was approximately two percent under budget, which reflected a 23 percent increase from the $16.6M budget in 2021 (Fig. 1). Of the budgeted amount, the department expenditures were $20,163,2481 within the five categories: personnel, services/other, supplies, capital and transfers out (Fig. 2). Additional financial reports are found under the Town’s website: CRgov.com/Transparency

1 Unaudited 2023 First Quarter Financial Review as of June 2023.

Fig. 1: Amended Police Budgets

Fig. 2: Actual Expenditures

The administrative staff diligently works to keep our Police website current and reply to citizens’ and business owners’ concerns. In 2022, a 133 percent increase in website revisions was generated due to the Town’s new website platform implementation (Fig. 3). Staff also realized a 27 percent increase in calls for assistance through the Town’s TRAKiT system (Fig. 4).