If they fail that mandate they squirm and talk about additional funding, and hold town hall meetings to address the problem.
No government agency will ever have enough funding, period.
Government in general plays with the gullible public with emergency services to gain additional funds when necessary.
Budget gets tough? There is thousands of things to cut, many pet projects not needed, but that would not get attention, that would not get an increased budget, approval for local fees and fines to increase revenue etc.
Cutting police or fire services will.
'Oh no they won't be able to take care of you without more money, everyone is going to be in more danger'.
It is often a bunch of political BS.
Government does not like to be forced to operate like an effecient business. They like to grow and grow, never cut the fat from the operations, and continue to grow. If you attempt to force them to shrink they respond by shrinking the things you will notice the most first to change society's mind.
In reality you only need so many police. Most crime is over in less than a minute, and much of the remainder before police arrive (and most of our history we made due with just a sheriff with maybe a couple deputies).
You can increase the size of the police 10x fold and they still won't arrive within those first couple minutes. You can save your local area a ton of money and have far less and they still won't arrive in those first few minutes.
Personaly I would rather add a few more helicopters to transport injured individuals than dozens more police.
The additional police won't change that much, the reduced time to reach the hospital just might.
Bottom line is the only people that are going to be present in most crimes are the people involved and maybe a couple passerbys. Well 95% of passerbys won't help. You can get beaten to death on the side of a busy road. Everyone knows someone else will deal with it.
Bottom line is people have to be able to defend themselves. Any law or restriction that interferes with that is creating half of the problem. A problem government insures you can be fixed by forking over increasingly large sums so it can grow.