Police Report for July 2015

Traffic Contacts: 324
Parking Contacts: 74
Vehicle Inspections: 26
Vehicle Unlocks: 28
Crash Investigations: 25
Public Assists: 179
Assist Other Agency: 79
Crimes Against Persons Report: 7
Crimes Against Property Report: 17
Other Reports: 22
Arrests: 25
Warrants: 4
Alcohol/Narcotics Charges: 13
Crimes Against Persons Charges: 7
Crimes Against Property Charges: 4
Other Charges: 3
Animal Calls: 33
Total Calls for Service: 1771
Total Calls for Service for the year: 10346
Training:

• Officer attended dive training with the Johnson County Dive Team. (8 hours)
• The newest officer graduated for the Iowa Law enforcement academy on July 31^st.
• The Administrative Professionals Annual Training Conference was held in Marshalltown, Iowa. Alisha attended the conference (8 hours)
• Alisha attended new manager training for Human Resource Management in Cedar Rapids. (8 hours)
• The department held mandatory training and conducted trauma care for serious injuries with assistance from the Iowa National Guard (2 hours for all officers)
• Three officers volunteered to assist with an online sexual assault training program to evaluate a new college level course curriculum. Topics covered included initial report, suspect interviews, evidence collection and prosecution. (30 hours)
• An online webinar was attended for Interviews with Juveniles explaining the developmental age and laws. 4 officers participated in the hour and half online webinar (6 hours)
• Venenga attended an online webinar for Dangers of Vehicle Pursuits and New Emerging Trends (1 hour).
• Venenga attended a law update/Supreme Court Decisions Webinar that may create policy changes for municipal police departments. (1 hour).
• A Sergeant attended a “train the trainer” instruction class to use the use of force simulator that is located at Kaplan University in Cedar Rapids. This simulator will allow officers to judge threats and non-threats and make appropriate verbal and force decisions. The instructor will take officers up individually to train on multiple different scenarios. (3 hours)

Public Relations:

• Officers assisted with Ragbrai as rides went through North Liberty.
• Officers worked the Blues and BBQ event. The officers provided security and traffic control at the end of the event.
• Officer Ross held a public education seminar on crime scene processing at the library for children.
• Attended the Kirkwood Community College Advisory Board meeting to discuss needs for modern policing. This is a partnership for working with Kirkwood Community college and offerings between NLPD and Kirkwood.

Equipment:

• New Dodge Charger arrived and the decals were changed to match the PD patch. It currently is getting the equipment installed.
• A new Ford Explorer is in place and striped. This was a replacement vehicle with new decals. This vehicle’s equipment is installed and in the fleet rotation.
• A squad car was struck while it was parked on the interstate as officers were assisting ICPD in a pursuit. Currently working with the insurance company to try to get the vehicle replaced and a new one back in service.

Enforcement:

• Continue to see an increase and need for officer to respond to animal control calls.
• According to our calls for service from last year at this time to this year, we are around 1400 calls higher. This is a result of other uncategorized categories that we are tracking anytime an officer is out of the patrol car for neighborhood foot patrols and public events. Also we have two additional patrol officers generating officer initiated calls. Call volumes for crimes against person and property appear to be similar from last year’s calls for service.

Department Admin:

The department’s old (left) and new (right) car designs.

• We hired an intern from the University of Dubuque who is from the area. This will be a paid position and he will work in the office and ride along with patrol officers for a total of 150 hours over the summer.
• Lauryn Rich was hired as a part-time office administrative assistant and will help with department records.
• Three North Liberty officers attended a 5 day civil jury trail from a 2007 arrest of Joshua Thomas for Disorderly Conduct and Interference with Official Acts charges. The lawsuit was alleging pain and suffering for injuries sustained during the arrest.  The jury found in the officers favor and did not award any money to Plaintiff.
• Officer Campbell and Officer Vazquez successfully completed the Filed Training program and are assigned to solo patrol. The officers will be working a mid shift.
• Officer Ryan Ellis graduated from the 14 week ILEA police academy, July 31^st. He will be returning to North Liberty and next month start the 3 month Field Training Officer program.