The midcycle contains reductions to public safety services, freezes 15.00 FTEs in vacant civilian positions within the Oakland Police Department across multiple sections. This freeze will reduce ODP’s capacity for collection, examination, analysis of evidence from crime scenes, civilan support for patrol functions, capacity for intenral financial analysis and fiscal operations, and the operation of the neighborhood services unit. It also increases the adminstrative capacity of the Department of Violence Prevention to faciliate its independent operation.