Baltimore City Council leaders called on the police commissioner to share a crime plan at a budget hearing Friday evening, but the department said it didn’t expect to finalize a plan for a few weeks.

Council President Brandon Scott and Budget Committee Chairman Eric Costello made the request in a letter to Commissioner Michael Harrison on Monday.

“This is critically urgent,” they wrote. “As summer is upon us, Baltimore City can ill afford a police department that lacks a strategic approach to combating violent crime.”

In an interview early Monday, Scott said he doesn’t know if the department already has a written plan.

“We’ve been asking them about this forever, consistently,” he said. “They should be prepared at this point.”

Monday evening, Matt Jablow, a spokesman for the police department, said Harrison was still in the process of conducting a review of the department he began after being named commissioner in January.