September started off pretty standard until the 36-Pit Fire was ignited.  Estacada and Sandy Officers spent 436 hours working security at Timber Park in an “Over Watch” position.  We spent time making sure that the personal and professional equipment at the park was secure and monitored who went in and out.  All of the hours are reimbursable by the USFS under a special agreement I was able to work out at the start of the fire.  I was also able to have conversation with Mt. Hood USFS staff and they told, based on our good work and cooperation with them, they wanted to have an agreement in place for other events that may arise in the future.  SPD Staff stayed in touch with EFD, USFD and other agencies to ensure that no evacuation of the town itself would be needed.  Preliminary plans for an evacuation were considered just in case.  While a devastating situation, the silver lining was the opportunity look at our emergency plans, staffing and supplies and consider what we need to have for future events.  We were, overall, pretty prepared and the the fire had minimal impact on service to our Sandy residents as the work done was on reimbursable overtime.

We continued to participate in the new RegJin work group.  As council may remember, we signed an IGA several months ago.  The IGA was non-binding but allowed us a place holder should we opt to participate.  Also as a reminder, RegJin is a new records management system that will be in use over a five county area.  As of last week, Clackamas County SO was the last agency to decide to participate.  With them coming on board, it is now every law enforcement agency in Clark, Washington, Multnomah,  and Clackamas County.   Marion County will be the fifth county and will come on next year.  Given the participation by all other LE agencies we feel that we just can’t ignore the wonderful opportunities that this data sharing will provide.  We will transition from our current Records Management System (EForce) in RegJin sometime in April of 2015.  There is minimal start up cost and the maintenance/participation fees are very similar to our annual maintenance fee with EForce so the budgetary impact should be low.  As you can imagine a project of this size is slow moving.  We are currently in the planning stages that will allow us to train over 5000 police officers and support staff in a logical and organized manner.

Code Enforcement

It was a busy month for Officer Moody.  He took in 33 new complaints and cleared 38.  He took two dogs to the county, placed the radar trailer at several locations and wrote 19 reports.   He also wrote 23 tickets this month, mostly for expired tags/illegal parking.  He also continues to work as our court bailiff.