[RP TownTalk] another car break-in

[Roland Walker]

Sarah -

Since you were watching the kids that night, I related your story to
Chief Parker about suspicious cars stopping in Ward 2.  He strongly
affirmed that you did the helpful thing by calling the police every
single time you saw a problem.

Taking things back to the staffing issue, as Chief Parker did: our
mutual aid pacts with other town give us the assurance that we are
always able to respond to serious calls and emergencies.  We can bring
responders in minutes whereas the county police may take hours. 
However, we can't activate mutual aid assistance for routine patrols.

Currently, when we allocate police to responding to a call, routine
patrols essentially stop.  When patrols stop, the police lose their
eyes and ears in the community.  The town police are as eager as the
rest of us to return to the staffing levels we had achieved under Mike
Herman's administration, because they believe that reenabling routine
patrols will reduce crime.

While the police are still stretched too thin for the patrols that we
need, it is all the more important for neighbors to keep a lookout for
each other and phone in suspicious activity.

R

On 9/27/05, Alan Thompson and Sarah Wayland <twacks at his.com> wrote:
> Hi Roland,
>
> *Thank you* for the update - very helpful.
>
> Did Chief Parker have any concrete suggestions as to how we can help the
> police do their job?
>
> -Sarah
>
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Roland Walker wrote:
>
> > The Public Safety Forum took place last week.  It was (unfortunately)
> > quite sparsely attended.
> >
> > We discussed some of the recent incidents in Ward 2 in great detail.
> > While it obviously was not all good news, it was very comforting to
> > hear how on top of things the police are.
> >
> > The most important thing is that we have two new officers in training
> > right now.  They will be ready within the next month or two.  When
> > both of these new officers are on duty, we will have reached the
> > staffing level at which our detective can stop doing patrols and go
> > back to solving cases full-time.
> >
> > And these are not the only police we are hiring.  We are on a steady
> > march toward full staffing.
> >
> > R
> >
> > On 9/27/05, ABragg7393 at aol.com <ABragg7393 at aol.com> wrote:
> >> Thank you Sarah for keeping us posted on this.  I would also like to mention
> >> that there was a strange car on our street for several days and we thought
> >> maybe it belonged to a new neighbor.  When it didn't move for over a week
> >> and the tire got flat, we called the police and gave them the license
> >> number.  It was a stolen car.  You are right, we need to give the police our
> >> support and keep an eye on our neighborhoods. I need to check again, but I
> >> think the meeting with the public safety committee and the chief takes place
> >> this Wednesday at 8.  This would be a good time to discuss our concerns with
> >> the chief and get his suggestions and recommendations as to how we can help
> >> keep Riverdale Park crime free.
> >>
> >>  Audrey
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