As requested at the January 11, 2023, PSNQLC meeting, the City Attorney's Office has provided the Police Department with the names of those criminal defendants for whom bench warrants are issued in cases prosecuted by the City's Municipal Prosecution Team. A process has been instituted whereby these notifications would be forwarded to the Crime Analyst Unit Supervisor, who would prepare an internal B.O.L.O. (Be On the Look Out) flyer with pertinent information regarding the wanted subject. This flyer is disseminated department-wide with the intent that Patrol Officers, while on patrol, would be alerted to these outstanding warrants and take appropriate action when confronting these subjects. For the more serious habitual offenders, the department's SET (Strategic Enforcement Team) is tasked with proactively searching for these wanted subjects.

Cases prosecuted by the SAO which result in either Bench Warrants or A/C Warrants are no longer easily accessible to anyone outside the Miami-Dade Police Department's (MDPD) Warrants Bureau. Before January 20, 2011, all warrants issued were housed in a database inside Miami-Dade County's CJNET (Criminal Justice Network). This web-based network was only available to law enforcement entities and listed all warrants issued. However, after the line-of-duty deaths of MDPD Detective Amanda Haworth and Detective Roger Castillo, who were killed while serving a warrant, that access was eliminated and only provided to the MDPD Warrants Bureau with strict requirements for the service of all felony warrants. Some of those requirements are:

• Each warrant must be served by no less than four (4) officers plus a supervisor.

• All officers participating in the service of a warrant must be wearing their assigned uniform, a Level 3 tactical vest, a Kevlar helmet, and at least one (1) Level 3 shield must be carried.

• In situations with more than four (4) officers, a rifle is also carried by one of the team members.

• All officers assigned to the Warrants Bureau must attend a specialized 56-hour training consisting of firearms, building searches, shield work, and defensive tactics.

• All officers assigned to the Warrants Bureau must attend a 16-hour quarterly training update.

• All officers assigned to the Warrants Bureau also have one squad training day each week.