Administration
Forfieture Program – I continue to work with our legal counsel regarding the forfeiture of seized property. The process and forms have been established and we have successfully “won” the right to keep some cash that was seized relative to a drug arrest. The rest of the process includes an IGA with the County as state law requires we share some of the funds. The law also requires the disbursements of funds to various programs in the State. Once those issues are worked out our process should be complete.
Reserve Academy – Sgt. Burns and I attended a meeting regarding the reserve academy. The academy has been spear headed by Lt. Nunez of the Oregon City Police. She is retiring and was looking for someone to take over the program. Capt. Rasch of the Milwaukie PD has agreed to spearhead the program. I have been working on the project with Capt. Rasch. The reserve academy mirrors the academy taught by DPSST in Salem. It is important that it be a quality product so that agencies with reserve officers can limit their failure to train liabilities. Since the project is so important, I have offered the use of some of our instructors (defensive tactics, firearms etc) as well as some of our facilities, should the need arise.
Reserve New Hires – Six applicants have made it through the background checks done by Det. Bickle. They are scheduled in April for their medical and psychological exams. Once that is completed you can expect a swearing in ceremony.
Records Management System – We are up and live on our new program. It is working great and the staff have adapted to the changes very well. I have recently met with a representative from the DA’s office regarding the integration of our system with the one they use. The goal of both agencies is to go as paper free as possible. I will be holding an overview of the program for the Council on April 9th at 5:00 pm.
Training – Sgt’s Roberts, Burns, Diane Reed and I all had training on the accreditation software (TAME). All sworn staff are scheduled for Taser re-training in April. Officer Sytsma was chosen as the new Taser instructor and will be going to instructor school in May.
Code Enforcement – Officer Moody stayed busy this month. He is not using the electronic ticketing program, which will reduce data entry by administrative staff. His van has also been equipped with a computer so he can receive his calls by computer, freeing up radio air time.
The Hood street property was cleaned up by a construction crew. We paid $2900 for their services. They did a great job and the property is no longer considered a nuisance. Here is what the property looks like now
School Resource Officer
Officer Way spoke with approximately 12 people (teachers, students and parents seeking advice or referrals. He also had 2 outside agency contacts requesting assistance with cases. He conducted 22 background checks for the school district. Between the snow days and spring break this month, there is not much more to report. He did receive a complaint of a criminal mischief from the school district regarding damage to the gazebo in the walking trails.
Evidence
Statistics – We took in 109 pieces of evidence and purged 9 in the month of March. Our year to date in-take is 281 items of evidence with 30 items purged. Juli Smith also submitted 10 times to the crime lab for analysis.
Sales- The Property Room had sales of $30.38 this month. Yearly sales total $1,166.15
Other activity – The Property Room hours were greatly reduced this month due to covering the Desk for vacations, snow days, and RMS training. Daily intake, evidence processing and DA requests were handled and other projects accomplished as follows: (from Juli Smith)
- Property Disposition form was created and implemented.
- Stocked FRS Kits for the National Missing Persons Program
- Distributed information on the Anonymous Analysis Program through OSP
- Designed and placed order for ergonomic recycling center for Property Room
- Accompanied Sgt. Roberts on Cartlidge search warrant and processed evidence
- Returned stolen firearm #11-1892 to Pennsylvania law enforcement
- Processed Marijuana from #12-0298 6.07 ounces
- Called out to process Marijuana on cases #12-0375 & #12-0383 with officers in the field on back to back days. 59 plants total.
- An unscheduled audit of the Property Room was conducted by Sgt. Roberts and no evidence was found to be missing or stored improperly.
- Callout on #12-0453 to process evidence for Officer Herrera on 03-31-12 car clouts
- Stocked Evidence Processing and storage rooms with paper towels to alleviate biohazard concerns.
- Additional work was done on the Shops storage area in order to facilitate the increased number of marijuana grows being seized by the department
- Made decision on Property Room “uniform” and began ordering process