Coral Gables is proposing to annex two of the nicer neighborhoods of unincorporated Miami-Dade (Ponce Davis and High Pines).
Coral Gables has published the following information on its website to gain support for the annexation:
"Police Response: City emergency police response is 5:00 minutes on average; the County response averages 10:04 minutes. For non-emergency calls, City Police response averages 8:00 minutes; County response is 34:45 minutes on average."
Is this true? Are the response times really more than double for emergencies and four times longer for non-emergencies?
CGPD claims that the police will arrive much faster, but what does it mean when they actually get there in an emergency? Are they as good as MDPD? Coral Gables makes it sound like CGPD and MDPD are interchangeable (as a matter of quality of services).
Coral Gables has published the following information on its website to gain support for the annexation:
"Police Response: City emergency police response is 5:00 minutes on average; the County response averages 10:04 minutes. For non-emergency calls, City Police response averages 8:00 minutes; County response is 34:45 minutes on average."
Is this true? Are the response times really more than double for emergencies and four times longer for non-emergencies?
CGPD claims that the police will arrive much faster, but what does it mean when they actually get there in an emergency? Are they as good as MDPD? Coral Gables makes it sound like CGPD and MDPD are interchangeable (as a matter of quality of services).