Officers Olmos, Wetherbee and Chief Yamashita provided training to the staff at Kelso Elementary. We started with a classroom portion of the new Run, Hide, Fight active shooter training.
Chief and Olmos at Kelso
We then moved to the gym and did some easy to do take downs. The Kelso staff did a great job. In the picture below you see one of the staff members taking down Wetherbee while Olmos cheers her on! Almost everyone at the school went “hands on” and seemed to really like the training.
Wetherbee gets beat up by a girl!
Code Enforcement
Officer Moody issued four parking citations and towed one abandon vehicle in November He also received 15 new code related complains and cleared 20. We have been hit hard on graffiti and he has been working to solve those cases. We have had 15 graffiti cases this month. He has some good leads. He also dealt with an abuse of a dog issue.
Patrol
We were well represented at the funeral to honor Oregon City Reserve Officer Libke. As you know he lost is life in a shooting in Oregon City. Sgt Roberts, Officer Craven and Chief Yamashita stayed behind and covered calls so the group could attend the funeral
In addition to their attendance, the Sandy Police Officers Assoc. donated $1000. to the Libke family fund. Officer Herrera and Reserve Officer Moody also went around to local business and were able to get another $800 in donations for the family. They then took this money to a local bank that was willing to match donations so the Libke family received an additional $1600 through their wonderful efforts.
Sgt Burns is back to work after recovering from his injury. He is on light duty for a while but it is great to have him back and there are plenty of projects for him to work on.
The first of the new cars have started to arrive. We have a lot of work to get them ready, paint scheme, radios and such. You should start seeing them on patrol near the end of December.