Vehicle Financial Expenditures (Polk County Sheriff)

Dear Jordan:

Thank you for your public records request via MuckRock.com.

The current PCSO budget for vehicle purchases (FY22-23) is $3,448,800. The current program budget for Fleet Maintenance is $12,342,255 (FY22-23). Attached are our General Orders (policies and procedures) regarding vehicle purchases and maintenance.

Regarding your requests for documents of "Any vehicle purchases made between January 1st, 2021-October 4th, 2022 including the make year and model of the vehicle," "Any repair Invoices for January 1st, 2021-October 4th, 2022," and "Any vehicle repair logs for January 1st, 2021-October 4th, 2022"-these requests will require extensive use of information technology resources and extensive use of clerical, supervisory assistance, or both. Therefore, pursuant to section 119.07(4)(d), Florida Statutes the agency requires that you provide a deposit in the amount of $1,418.43 before further work is done on this request.

This amount reflects the following: 6,413 pages of documents (vehicle work orders and vehicle orders) ($.15 per page) and 12 hours of staff time @$38.04 per hour to produce. The vehicle work orders state the repairs completed on each vehicle and vendor costs. If you want a copy of the physical vendor's invoice, this would take a week or two due to the extensive work-this is not included in the above estimate. A broad estimate to provide that level of detail would be somewhere between $1,500 and $3,500 additional dollars. Let us know if you are interested in these documents.

If for some reason it takes us less time to complete this request than anticipated, then we will refund you the un-used portion of your deposit. If it appears it is going to take us substantially more time to fulfill this request then we would let you know, and we may request another deposit.

Please pay by check or money order made payable to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, 1891 Jim Keene Blvd., Winter Haven, FL, 33880. Please make reference to your request with your payment and send it to my attention. We will begin preparing the documents as soon as we receive your deposit.

Sincerely,

Scott Wilder, MPA | CPM
Director of Communications at Polk County Sheriff's Office

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The Polk/PCSO crime rate is 45.1% less than the Florida state crime rate. The crime rate, which is the number of crimes per 100 residents, is down 6.4% from 2020 (1.26) to 2021 (1.18). This is the lowest crime rate ever measured in PCSO's jurisdiction! Since 1997, the year we launched our proactive crime fighting model (PROCAP), the crime rate in Polk County has fallen 82%.