Police Report for December 2022

Traffic Contacts 121
Parking Contacts 140
Vehicle Inspections 24
Vehicle Unlocks 17
Crash Investigations 35
Public Assists 396
Assist other Agency 158
Crimes Against Persons Report 6
Crimes Against Property Report 14
Other Reports 22
Arrests 16
Warrants 2
Alcohol/Narcotics Charges 8
Crimes Against Persons Charges 5
Crimes Against Property Charges 1
Other Charges 5
Animal Calls 42
Total Calls for Service 1597
*Total Calls for Service for the year 21819

Training:

• Members attended monthly Canine, Bomb Squad, Tactical Team, and Dive team (64 hours)
• One new Supervisor attended a weeklong First Line Supervisor Course from Dolan Consulting (40 hours online)
• Records attended a Uniform Crime Reporting training webinar on reporting officer suicides (1 hour)
• K-9 and handler attended a 3-day recertification course. Falco and Officer Campbell passed their annual recertification tests. (24 hours)
• One officer attended the Iowa Summit on Justice and racial disparities in Ankeny hosted by the State NAACP coordinator. (8 hours)
• Our Cyber Crimes investigator attended Automated Tools for digital forensic analysis online to help prepare for his new role in January. (32 hours). He also attended best practices in Mobile Devices investigation on line (1 hour)
• Officers attended a 4-hour online course on Manipulation tactics that suspects use to sabotage interviews. (92 hours)

Public Relations:

• The department hosted First Friday for Coffee with local business leaders organized by the Communications Department in our training room.
• The department hosted an open house and VR demonstration with several community members the first week in December. If they wanted, they got to go through police virtual reality training scenarios.
• We hosted the giving tree and had several officers/city staff and the public donate gifts for families that signed up. We then held a pizza party for Presents with Police to pick up the gifts and interact with officers at our station.  We had live Christmas music in the background provided by Sam Ross and his saxophone.
• Officers continue to work off duty jobs for the High school, University, and the CV Event center. We bill the requesters, and the city is reimbursed for their expenses.
• Kieonna Pope has worked with 7 clients from North Liberty and logged over 8 hours for December assisting our residents at different intervals. She also is attending meetings and still getting acclimated to North Liberty, Coralville, and Johnson County Communities.  We are working on a brochure and purchased office equipment (computer monitors) to help her get better organized.

Equipment:

• We ordered 7 Clips and 300 rounds of blanks for the Joint Honor Guard to use for their ceremony drills. We have not provided any other equipment in the last two years and thought this was a great way for NL to support the team.
• One car was damaged from a collision with a deer. It was repaired by Premier Auto and covered by insurance.
• We are still working on HVAC issues with the software provider and trying to maintain a constant or consistent temperature in the building.

Enforcement/Crime:

• We conducted the tobacco compliance check stings and all the local business passed and did not sell to the minor this year.
• We had our first snow emergency declared in December for the weather event. We issued 102 parking citations, received one appeal so far, and towed 2 vehicles following the snow emergency.
• To review any criminal complaints for the month List of Criminal Complaints | Johnson County Iowa or see North Liberty Monthly Calls for service go to Joint Emergency Communications Center (jecc-ema.org). There is a 4-hour delay in posting of Calls for Service to the website.
• We receive reports of porch pirate activity this month (Hackberry, Rachel Dr), as well as a Hyundai motor vehicle theft (Lincoln Dr), and copper wire theft from Ace Electric (Progress). The Hyundai was recovered. A semi and trailer were also stolen from Stoner Court, that we have not recovered by January 4^th.

Department Admin:

• We are continuing the hiring process for police officers by having them take the MMPI test and conducting background checks. A conditional offer was made an accepted by a certified officer with 3 years’ experience. We hope he will get started in January.
• Several staff members attended the City Holiday party. Officer Liz Monroe was nominated and approved for the 2022 Officer of the Year award.
• Two policies were updated removing the term excited delirium from the use of force and rendering aid policy because it is no longer recognized by the medical community, instead it is just a medical emergency. The Safe Haven law was also updated to reflect the change from 30 days to 90 days that a child can be given up or dropped off without any criminal charges of abandonment.
• Chief attended several meetings for the local police chiefs’ meetings, JFACT-ICAC meeting, JFACT and JCDTF joint meeting, ILEA council meeting, and Guidelink advisory board meeting.
• The schedule was update with the union shift bids at the beginning of the month, so officers can select what preferred schedule they might have for 2023, but any changes can be made by contract at least two weeks out of the posted schedule.
• Supervisors are working on 2022 year-end evaluations of their staff.
• Our dive team member, Andrew Jennings retired after 10 years with the Johnson County Metro Dive Team. He will not longer be a member of the team.
• The table on the last page is from all the council minutes for 2022. The last column is the difference from 2021. (Red is higher and the black is negative).  We are very close to the numbers in 2021 in most of the categories.