ROSEVILLE, Calif. — The Roseville Police Department announced that it would be adding a seventh patrol area to the growing city that has seen a 15% population increase in the past decade.
According to the City of Roseville, the current population is 140,458, up from 118,601 back in 2010. Much of that growth has happened in the western area, an area the Roseville Police Department is now accommodating.
We now have added an additional beat in the city where we have specific designated officers assigned to where our new beat is, on the western-most edge of Roseville," said Rob Baquera with the Roseville Police Department.
Each one of the city's seven beat areas has police officers assigned specifically to those areas, allowing officers to better understand the area they're serving.
According to Baquera the new beat has been in the works for months.
"We started analyzing call volume, response times, the additional officers that may be needed for the calls for service that happen in a specific area," Baquera explained.
Funding for the new police beat came from Measure B, a half-cent sales tax passed in November of 2018.
Before the new beat was introduced, the western area of Roseville was part of beat six, still patrolled by Roseville Police, but a much larger, less specific section.
Now, they say they can not only localize patrols in western Roseville, but throughout the city.
"Some of the police beats stayed the same," Baquera said. "Some of them are actually smaller because of the seventh police beat."
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