Police Special Services / Detectives through the years
Explore reported actual expenditures for this section of the Police Department. Expand a line item to compare its reported amounts.
| Expenditure | Actual2019-2020 | Actual2020-2021 | Actual2021-2022 | Actual2022-2023 | Actual2023-2024 | Actual2024-2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personnel | ||||||
| 292,297 | 259,005 | 301,766 | 251,624 | 477,894 | 498,771 | |
| Salaries | 286,145 | 253,882 | 292,807 | 242,622 | 456,973 | 462,783 |
| Overtime | 6,152 | 5,123 | 8,959 | 3,152 | 14,521 | 14,988 |
| Longevity | N/A | N/A | N/A | — | — | 6,600 |
| Salaries: Special | N/A | N/A | N/A | 5,850 | 6,400 | 14,400 |
| FICA | 20,199 | 18,837 | 22,308 | 18,888 | 34,604 | 37,221 |
| Group Life & Health Insurance | 48,083 | 48,363 | 48,691 | 38,872 | 72,056 | 86,500 |
| 42,724 | 48,044 | 48,157 | 44,313 | 55,001 | 103,440 | |
| Retirement | 42,724 | 48,044 | 48,157 | 36,533 | 38,881 | 87,472 |
| Retirement - 401A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 7,780 | 16,120 | 15,968 |
| Workers Compensation Insurance | 8,590 | 5,318 | 4,938 | 4,578 | 7,668 | 7,845 |
| Employee Education & Training | 1,449 | 532 | 3,020 | 4,220 | 5,076 | 3,200 |
| Disability Insurance | 1,063 | 946 | 1,132 | 918 | 1,730 | 2,021 |
| Deferred Compensation | 1,029 | 1,460 | 950 | 2,408 | 5,870 | 6,193 |
| Subtotal — Personnel | 415,434 | 382,505 | 430,962 | 365,821 | 659,899 | 745,191 |
| Operations | ||||||
| Publicity/Subscriptions/Dues | 300 | 0 | 75 | — | — | — |
| Telephone | 1,787 | 1,698 | 1,575 | 2,887 | 2,639 | 2,539 |
| Repairs and Maintenance | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Travel | 188 | 265 | 2,192 | 2,215 | 2,147 | 8,937 |
| Office Supplies | 200 | 113 | — | — | — | — |
| Clothing & Uniforms | 2,400 | 2,038 | 2,766 | 2,727 | 3,660 | 4,082 |
| Professional Supplies | 921 | 436 | 1,292 | 723 | 954 | 142 |
| Other Operating Supplies | 957 | 913 | 2,818 | 4,133 | 3,213 | 5,791 |
| Gasoline & Diesel | 3,105 | 2,361 | 4,065 | 7,134 | 8,593 | 6,359 |
| 807 | 2,024 | 519 | 1,950 | 419 | 160 | |
| Operation of Motor Vehicles | 807 | 2,024 | 519 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Auto Licenses & Titles | N/A | N/A | N/A | 26 | 190 | 95 |
| Tires & Tubes | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1,746 | — | — |
| Washing & Cleaning | N/A | N/A | N/A | 75 | 100 | — |
| Vehicle & Equipment Parts | N/A | N/A | N/A | 103 | 129 | 65 |
| Fleet Management | 24,000 | 24,000 | 24,000 | 24,000 | 28,000 | 35,000 |
| Contracted Services | 5,917 | 4,300 | 7,436 | 3,462 | 6,423 | 14,330 |
| Liability Insurance | 6,378 | 7,367 | 8,546 | 11,577 | 16,482 | 26,506 |
| Lab Fees | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1,015 |
| Subtotal — Operations | 46,960 | 45,515 | 55,284 | 60,808 | 72,530 | 104,861 |
| Capital | ||||||
| Fixed Assets | 7,910 | 2,152 | 3,936 | 196 | 98,431 | 21,638 |
| Subtotal — Capital | 7,910 | 2,152 | 3,936 | 196 | 98,431 | 21,638 |
| TOTAL SPECIAL SERVICES / DETECTIVES | 470,304 | 430,172 | 490,182 | 426,825 | 830,860 | 871,690 |
Latest budget — FY 2026-2027Compare the proposed budget with the amount Council approved.
Approved amounts authorize spending; they are not actual expenditure. These are the stages printed in the budget book, which may not include later amendments.
| Budget | Budgeted / amendedFY 2025-2026 | Manager proposedFY 2026-2027 | Council approvedFY 2026-2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Department total | 606,600 | 641,000 | 638,000 |
Budget line items
| Expenditure | Budgeted / amendedFY 2025-2026 | Manager proposedFY 2026-2027 | Council approvedFY 2026-2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salaries | 320,000 | 325,000 | 325,000 |
| Overtime | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 |
| Longevity | 4,700 | 2,500 | 2,500 |
| Salaries: Special | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 |
| FICA | 32,000 | 25,300 | 25,300 |
| Group Life & Health Insurance | 60,000 | 56,000 | 56,000 |
| Retirement | 35,000 | 28,000 | 28,000 |
| Retirement - 401A | 16,000 | 22,000 | 22,000 |
| Workers Compensation Insurance | 7,000 | 8,000 | 8,000 |
| Employee Education & Training | 6,000 | 6,000 | 6,000 |
| Disability Insurance | 1,500 | 1,300 | 1,300 |
| Deferred Compensation | 3,000 | 6,500 | 6,500 |
| Auto Licenses & Titles | 200 | 200 | 200 |
| Member Dues & Registration Fees | 500 | 500 | 500 |
| Telephone | 2,000 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
| Repairs and Maintenance Motor Vehicles & Equipment | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Travel | 3,500 | 3,500 | 3,500 |
| Clothing & Uniforms | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 |
| Profess ional Supplies | 3,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Other Operating Supplies | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 |
| Gasoline & Diesel | 7,000 | 9,000 | 9,000 |
| Tires & Tubes | 1,500 | 1,500 | 1,500 |
| Washing & Cleaning | 700 | 700 | 700 |
| Vehicle & Equipment Parts | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Fleet Management | 35,000 | 30,000 | 27,000 |
| Other Contracts | 14,000 | 54,000 | 54,000 |
| Liability Insurance | 16,000 | 19,000 | 19,000 |
| Lab Fees | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 |
| Fixed Assets | - | - | - |
A dash means no numeric amount is shown in that source cell. No proposal is substituted for a missing approved amount.
What the records showRelated decisions, supporting records, and unanswered questions.
Regular salary actuals rose from $242,622 in FY2022–23 to $456,973 in FY2023–24: an increase of $214,351, or 88.3%. These are actual expenditures, not budget appropriations, and exclude overtime and special pay. The records document a compensation-plan change, but do not reconcile the entire increase for this division.
Regular salary actuals for both years · page 66
The FY2024 financial report identifies implementation of the updated classification and compensation plan as one reason General Fund expenditures increased. This is citywide context; it does not assign a dollar amount to the Special Services increase. FY2024 management discussion · page 25.
The September 19, 2023 minutes record unanimous approval of a classification/compensation study. This entry does not specify individual raises or their effective dates. September 2023 minutes in October packet · page 5.
Ordinance 1127 increased the FY2023–24 Special Services regular-salary budget from $351,000 to $430,000, a $79,000 amendment. It also increased FICA by $8,000, health and life insurance by $11,000, and fixed assets by $125,000. Budget amendments are not amounts paid and do not reconcile the $214,351 change in actual regular salaries. Ordinance 1127 amendment schedule · page 26.
The April 16, 2024 minutes record unanimous approval of Ordinance 1127 on second reading. April 2024 approval minutes · page 4.
The Detective staffing plan lists five positions in each of FY2023–24, FY2024–25 and FY2025–26. Planned positions are not filled positions, and this schedule does not include FY2022–23. It cannot establish whether hiring or transfers contributed to the earlier increase. Detective division staffing plan · page 65.
For the following year, FY2024–25, the city explicitly attributes higher public-safety spending partly to police vacancies being filled and compensation-plan implementation. That is evidence about the later year and the wider department, not proof of what caused the FY2023–24 Special Services jump. FY2025 management discussion · page 23.
The FY2024–25 amendment schedule assigns a $43,000 increase to this department’s retirement account (01-0603-5144), changing its budget from $48,000 to $91,000. This is its share of the $629,000 General Fund retirement increase, not a separately verified actual payment. Department pension amendment allocation · page 119.
The audited FY2025 discussion identifies the $629,000 retirement budget increase as an additional defined-benefit pension contribution. Audited pension amendment context · page 24.
Still unanswered: Payroll totals by position, vacancy and transfer dates, and pay-plan effective dates for FY2022–23 and FY2023–24 are needed to separate pay increases from changes in staffing or account allocation. The records reviewed do not quantify those contributions or establish that new accounting requirements caused the increase. The newly identified FY2024–25 pension amendment concerns the following year and does not explain the FY2023–24 regular-salary jump.
About these figuresWhat is included and what changed between reports.
This table covers Special Services, called Detectives in later reports, rather than the entire Police Department. The account numbers and repeated historical amounts connect the two names; they do not show whether staffing or duties stayed the same.
Amounts are shown as reported, without adjusting for inflation. A dash (“—”) means the source shows a dash or does not list a value; it does not necessarily mean zero. Related accounts are grouped for comparison, with available detail under each row.
Sources and methodsOriginal documents, coverage, and how the years were matched.
Download actual expenditures as CSV · Each record includes its source page and distinguishes detail rows from totals.
Section reconciliation and differences
- Personnel: Overlapping 2022–2023 amounts: 365,821 earlier; 365,821 later. The later schedule splits Salaries into regular and special pay and Retirement into Retirement and Retirement - 401A. Its longevity line is a source dash. The grouped FY2022-23 amounts agree exactly.
- Operations: Overlapping 2022–2023 amounts: 60,808 earlier; 60,808 later. The later schedule replaces combined or older labels with specific vehicle, license, dues, and contract accounts. Office Supplies appears only in older years and has no replacement account in the later schedule. Source dashes remain absent/non-numeric. The grouped FY2022-23 amounts agree exactly.
- Capital: Overlapping 2022–2023 amounts: 196 earlier; 196 later. Fixed Assets maps directly and the FY2022-23 amounts agree exactly.
- Actual 2019-2020: Original report · PDF page 38
- Actual 2020-2021: Original report · PDF page 38
- Actual 2021-2022: Original report · PDF page 37
- Actual 2022-2023: Original report · PDF page 66
- Actual 2023-2024 (Detectives): Original report · PDF page 66
- Actual 2024-2025 (Detectives): Original report · PDF page 67
How the years were matched
- The 2022-2023 column now uses the complete later FY2025-26 account breakdown. Its detail agrees with the previously displayed total; the earlier source column is archived.
- Each column is an ACTUAL fiscal-year column from a later annual-budget presentation; amounts and labels are preserved as displayed.
- The FY2022-23 budget book, SHA-256 f1612f08fa002e56274dcc2e4f5eee7e3e19ecba804a232806443d678bcdf000, PDF page 38, supplies ACTUAL 2019-2020 and ACTUAL 2020-2021.
- The FY2024-25 budget book, SHA-256 f4c780f2efad68059e60dc964557b1855cd2f791eb347a6203cf51834bcad5fd, PDF page 37, supplies ACTUAL 2021-2022 and ACTUAL 2022-2023.
- The two source books are non-overlapping for the four selected actual-year columns, so no same-year revision conflict occurs in this extract.
- Office Supplies appears in the older presentation and is absent from the FY2024-25 Special Services table; no zero-valued replacement row was invented.
- The FY2024-25 presentation labels the section Special Services and reports FY2022-23 actual total 426,825.
- The FY2023-24 ordinance amendment already identifies Special Services detail accounts with prefix 01-0603.
- The FY2025-26 presentation labels the section Detectives 603, uses the same 01-0603 prefix, and carries the identical FY2022-23 actual total 426,825 at the section-total level; individual lines are regrouped into its first actual column.
- The FY2026-27 presentation continues Detectives 603 and carries FY2023-24 actual 830,860 from the FY2025-26 presentation.
- Join the fiscal-year expenditure series at department/account 0603. Preserve Special Services versus Detectives as the displayed label for each source year. The evidence establishes accounting-series continuity; it does not establish that the division's mission or staffing stayed identical.
- FY2025-26 PDF65 lists five planned positions for each of FY2023-24, FY2024-25 and FY2025-26. Comparable FY2022-23 staffing remains unresolved.
- The unified view groups source lines using history-crosswalks.json. Original rows remain unchanged. Accounting-category reconciliation does not prove unchanged service scope.