Police Report for April 2023

Traffic Contacts 376
Parking Contacts 44
Vehicle Inspections 16
Vehicle Unlocks 29
Crash Investigations 20
Public Assists 498
Assist other Agency 126
Crimes Against Persons Report 4
Crimes Against Property Report 17
Other Reports 34
Arrests 30
Warrants 5
Alcohol/Narcotics Charges 13
Crimes Against Persons Charges 2
Crimes Against Property Charges 2
Other Charges 21
Animal Calls 47
Total Calls for Service 2107
*Total Calls for Service for the year 7918

Training:

• Members attended monthly Canine, Tactical Team, and Honor Guard Training (56 hours)
• Our GTSB Coordinator, Ryan Rockafellow, attended the National Life Saver’s Conference in Seattle, WA. (32 hours)
• Investigator Rick Vazquez attended a 2-week conference in Des Moines. (80 hours)
• Canine Officer Ben Campbell attended a 4-hour case law update regarding search and seizure, traffic stops and use of a canine. (4 hours)
• Our new hire, Zach Jirak was certified through our departmental instructors for taser and firearms prior to going to ILEA. (12 hours)
• Our lead Driving instructor, Andrew Jennings was recertified at ILEA. (8 hours)
• 3 instructors (Firearms/DT, Taser/Driving and Implicit Bias/ABLE/de-escalation instructor) attended an Instructor Development Course in Moline. This will be required for all certified instructors in the department in addition to their certification course. (96 hours)
• Our Cybercrimes investigator is in Florida at the annual certification course/conference. Upon his return, he will work on completing his crimes against children and cybercrimes training assignments. The process will take a few months and he will work with an assigned proctor to achieve certification.  This certification and his expenses are paid through the partnership with Iowa Crimes Against Children (ICAC). (80 hours)
• Chief attended a Commanders Emergency Vehicle Operations conference at the Newton Speedway. Topics included intervention techniques, policy considerations, and vehicle updates by NTSA. (8 hours).
• 2 officers attended training to be certified as Salvage Vehicle Inspectors by the State. (16 hours)

Public Relations:

• Our community outreach officer, Jordan Gallagher, and Administration Lieutenant, Rueben Ross, worked the Financial Literacy Fair at NCJH.
• We hosted the bi-annual DEA sponsored drug take back event at our PD. We collected over 24 pounds of prescription narcotics for proper disposal.
• The Community Outreach officer attended the Kites for Kids event. He helped the kids put together their kites.
• An officer was requested and worked the Solon Prom that was hosted in town.
• We were requested by Liberty High School administration to run our canine through all the bags prior to a school band trip. We used this as a training opportunity for Falco and was completed with no issues.

Equipment:

• We reviewed the annual expenses for the PD which included a cost increase for the PD camera system software that is paid annually. While looking for other options, we discovered we were being billed double by the company who installed the system. We ended up going with a different company for the next 5 years and will end up saving $4000 per year over the life of the 5-year contract.
• The new hire was outfitted with his uniforms, ballistic vest and duty gear.
• We purchased a used vehicle from Junge Ford that will be an administrative vehicle and used for our Cyber Crimes investigator.

Enforcement/Crime:

• Officers worked a joint traffic enforcement project in Johnson County with ICPD, CPD, State Patrol and JCSO to meet requirements of our GTSB contract.
• We identified, located and charged the teens involved with the graffiti seen around town.
• The two individuals that burglarized the Mexican grocery store were identified through the investigation and arrested on criminal warrants. We learned they were involved in other grocery store burglaries in the Midwest.
• To review any criminal complaints for the month List of Criminal Complaints | Johnson County Iowa or see North Liberty Calls for service go to Joint Emergency Communications Center (jecc-ema.org)

Department Admin:

• New hire, Zachary Jirak started April 3^rd and will go to ILEA May 1^st through August 18^th. He completed several orientation items to include policy review, firearms and taser certification, and got outfitted in his uniform. He also went to ILEA to get pre-qualified and passed the physical agility testing. His addition puts us at full staff.
• The Chief attended meetings for the Community Violence Intervention Program, Guidelink policy board/Guidelink- law enforcement board, and the Johnson County chief’s meeting.
• We also have representatives for monthly county wide meetings for Sexual Assault Response Team (SART), Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP) and the Juvenile Justice Youth Development Policy Board (JJYD).
• Following the recommendations of a state audit, we updated our juvenile in custody and holding policy.
• The Community Outreach Officer, and our Mental Health Liaison attended a lunch and learn event presented by Chief Judge Lars Anderson and assist county attorney Lynn Rose on Johnson County’s new Mental Health civil court procedures.
• The Chief met with District Representative, Rachael Anderson, on behalf of Congresswoman Miller-Meeks office on any needs we may have at the federal level.