Detroit Police Chief James Craig

Detroit Police Chief, James Craig, held his second conference with the media in his first month in office to discuss recent restructuring decisions he's implemented Thursday, July 25. (Tanya Moutzalias | MLive.com)

DETROIT — Detroit's new police chief of one month, James Craig, held a second of his lengthy and informative meetings with the media Thursday to discuss some of the most recent restructuring decisions he's implemented.

Among the most notable: Craig says 175 officers will be transferred from Special Operations, a division that exists at each precinct, to patrol response units.

"I know some of you good people have been calling the station to see how many units are deployed and you're finding we have two, three cars in service," said Craig. "We've also received calls from police officers... and we learned one such district had 56 officers assigned to Special Operations.

"What in effect you have is a large segment of police officers deployed in a precinct or a district who are not available for calls for service."

Craig spent nearly one hour speaking to the press and fielding a myriad of questions.

Among the topics touched upon, Craig spoke voiced his concern about motorists disregarding red lights, the possibility of adding intersection cameras, attacking the city's carjacking problem, the ongoing investigation of the Free Press photographer who claims the police took and destroyed her smart phone memory card, the recreation of the Tactical Services Team, restructuring of upper-management, the reopening of stations around the clock and elimination of virtual precincts and changes to the response time calculations to obtain more accurate data.

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