"There is nothing fancy about it," the former Washington, D.C., police chief said at a news conference. "It's fundamental, it's basic. This is not Batman and Robin coming out of a cave somewhere."

Ramsey said he would reassign the 46 members of the Strategic Intervention Tactical Unit to the street patrols. The rest of the 200 added officers likely will come from Police Academy classes.

The city had 392 homicides last year, so Ramsey needs to reduce that number by 98 to reach his goal. He also pledged to reduce shootings and violent crimes.

"I think we set a goal that is achievable," Ramsey said. "It should be higher than that."

The plan also promises to:

* Increase the number of police surveillance cameras from 26 to 250;

* Train officers on strategies like "stop and frisk" to seize illegal guns;

* Work more closely with the community on crime-fighting efforts;

* Reduce the number of outstanding warrants and get offenders off the streets.

Mayor Nutter, who on his first day in office charged Ramsey with writing the plan, praised the effort.

"This is not a program. This is the mission of the Philadelphia Police Department," Nutter said. "This is the mission of how we're going to conduct policing."

He would not put a dollar amount on the plan, but said it was affordable. He said any additional costs would be worked into his budget, which he is scheduled to release Feb. 14.

Ramsey briefed police on the plan at the Wachovia Center before presenting it to the news media. He also showed it to members of City Council and to other law-enforcement officials.

"He's getting back to basic policing, and the core of basic policing is patrol," said John McNesby, president of the local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, who said cops are largely positive about the plan.

The 200 additional officers will be deployed to nine high-crime districts - three in North Philadelphia, two in the Southwest, two in the Northwest, one in the Northeast and one in West Philadelphia.

Ramsey said the department would use the extra cops, as well as overtime, to staff those districts. Cops will be visible on foot, bike and Segway, according to the plan.

Within the high-crime districts, cops will establish smaller "targeted enforcement zones" for the most violent sections. Ramsey said that a mobile unit, staffed by off-duty cops on overtime, would help patrol the zones during the volatile summer months.

But those zones will not feature some of the emergency police tactics Nutter promised during his campaign. In his crime plan, Nutter proposed emergency zones where the city could limit gatherings, set curfews or stop cars.

Nutter said that he still could take that step, but that for now this is the plan.

"This is a full-court press," the mayor said. "This is all hands on deck in a coordinated fashion."

Ramsey stressed that the strategy would not neglect the rest of the city. He said he would maintain current staffing in the other 14 districts and would authorize overtime to deal with crime.

"We didn't pull people from those districts to bolster strength in the nine," he said.

Ramsey's plan suggests that more cops could be redeployed soon. It says that officers on tactical or administrative assignments could be reassigned to the patrol bureau. A review on the issue will be completed by May 1.

Ramsey also is working on a reorganization of the department, also to be finished in the spring.

The plan doesn't address Nutter's campaign pledge to hire 500 officers in his first three years. Nutter yesterday said he was committed to more cops, but hedged when asked about the number.

"Let's not get hung up on, 'Did you put 500 officers on the street,' " he said.

Rutgers sociology professor Patrick Carr said he was encouraged by Ramsey's willingness to set ambitious goals.

"I think the fact that they are prepared to nail some targets up on the wall is a pretty brave step," said Carr, author of "Clean Streets: Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order and Building Community Activism" (2005, NYU Press).

Carr said using targeted patrols and community involvement was a good first step, but questioned how the community relationship would work.

"What's the apparatus here?" he asked. "My sense is that there is a real groundswell, that people really want to be involved."

In response to another request from Nutter, Ramsey vowed to improve officers' training in the use of force, in light of a series of police shootings of civilians.