Public Safety Initiative

Public Safety Initiative• Visibility & Partnerships

–Four Neighborhood Police Officers–Eight-Ten Part-time Police Officers–Northern Border Initiative/Ohio Homeland Security–Special Assignment Car–U.S. Marshall, Violent Fugitive Task Force–Web site–Cuyahoga County Prosecutors Office Pilot Prosecution Program

Public Safety Initiative– West End Patrol

– Liaison with Kent State University

– New Computer Aided Dispatch/Records Management System

– Reverse 911

– Video Surveillance Project of City Parks

– Grants for Tasers

– Block Clubs

Neighborhood Police Officer

• Neighborhood policing is a shared responsibility between law enforcement agencies and citizens.

• Citizens will then become actively involved in the design and implementation of Neighborhood policing strategies for their area.

• Community forums, or groups of citizens meeting to discuss particular issues of concern, will be useful to help shape Neighborhood policing initiatives and the direction they will take as the community changes.

Neighborhood Police Officer• Mission is to increase visibility of Lakewood

Police on the streets and in the neighborhoods.

• NPO’s will have a positive influence on the perception of safety in the neighborhood.

• NPO’s presence will reduce the perception of the opportunity for criminal and nuisance activity.

• Implementation goal of Ward 4 during summer 2008. Full implementation 2009.

A Neighborhood Police Officer will be assigned to each Ward.

Ward 4Ward 3Ward 2

Ward 1

Ward 4:

Officer Mike Fritsch

Councilperson Mary Louise Madigan

Ward 4 will be receiving the first of four new Neighborhood Police Officer (NPO).

The Neighborhood Police Officer will be stationed at 12400 Madison Ave., Fedor Manor, where the NPO will be patrolling Ward 4 on foot, bike and motor patrol.

Geographical areas•Madison Park•Bird town•Business district areas•Two hotels (Day’s Inn/Travel Lodge)•Gold Coast•St. Cyril’s School•Harrison and Garfield Schools

Current status: Scheduled to being in early June

Ward 3:

Officer Kevin Fischer

Councilman Michael Summers

Current status: Hiring process in motion for new officer in order to assign NPO.

Neighborhood Office site selection to proceed.

Geographical areas•Downtown business area•Lakewood Park•Lakewood High School•St. Edward High School•Lakewood Hospital•Roosevelt School

Ward 2:

Officer Angie Ortiz

Councilman Thomas Bullock

Current status: Hiring process in motion for new officer in order to assign NPO.Neighborhood Office site selection to proceed.

Geographical areas•Lakewood Park•Downtown Business area•Kaufmann Park•City Center•Grant, Lincoln, Hayes School•Lakewood Catholic Academy

Ward 1:

Officer Rick Busi

Councilman Kevin Butler

Current status: Hiring process in Motion for new officer in order to assign NPO.

Neighborhood Office site selection to proceed.

Geographical areas•West End Bars•West End Businesses •West End Apartment Buildings•Clifton Park•Metro Parks •Harding, McKinley Schools•Edwards Park

Part time Police Officers

Current status: Procedures finalized for hiring. Recruitment to begin followed by the hiring process. Training of officers willbegin after hiring and they will be able to work on their own. Full implementation Goal in 2009.

•Eight – Ten Part Time officers

•Two part time officers per shift 365 days a year

•Primary responsibility: Parks, bike and foot patrol

•Increased Visibility of Uniform Officers on the streets, in the parks and neighborhoods.

Special Assignment Car

• Increased Visibility of Patrol Officers

• Funding through Justice Assistance Grant program (JAG) and Law Enforcement Trust Fund

• Assigned to area of high or increasing complaint areas during spring and summer months

Current status: Began patrols on April 16th.

Northern Border Initiative

Current status: Lakewood Officers completed required 4 hrs awareness training. Scheduling with Department of Homeland Security.

•Officers funded thru Ohio Homeland Security Northern Border Initiative grant

•Patrol Northern border of Lakewood and Critical infrastructure

•Opportunity for uniformed officer in marked police car to patrol areas such as Lakewood Park, Scenic Park, Norfolk and Southern Tracks, etc.

U.S. Marshal, Pete Elliott Violent Fugitive Task Force

Current status: Currently one officer of Lakewood Police Department is assigned to the Task Force

•Cooperation with U.S. Marshal’s Task Force to identify and arrest people living within Lakewood who are currently wanted on Felony charges.

•ZIP Code Blitz: Task force works with Lakewood to apprehend suspects residing in Lakewood with Felony warrants. First time a Blitz was done was on April 15th. A total of 25 Warrants were adjudicated, 11 arrests made within Lakewood.

William D. MasonCuyahoga County Prosecutors

Office Pilot Prosecution Program

Current status: Participating in pilot program to transfer arrested felons to county jail within 48 hours, reducing the time incarcerated in Lakewood Jail.

•Efficient processing of felony cases through the justice system is thegoal of the project to reduce the time it takes from arrest to disposition.•Reducing the time in the system will result in cost savings by reduced court appearances, less time in local jail.

New and Interactive Web site

Current status: Identify sources to create site

•Interactive areas for

•Information

•Access reports online

•Access calls for service and crime statistics

•Ability to make simple reports over the Web

•Block Clubs

West End Bar Patrols

Current status: Meetings are being held with Police, Merchants, and Civic Organizations to work out agreement.

Map

•Consortium of Merchants to hire off duty Lakewood Officers in uniform and marked patrols to be visible in western entertainment district.

•Visible presence to reduce calls for service and neighborhood complaints.

•Improve feeling of safety for homeowners, customers, and business employees.

Liaison with Kent State UniversityProfessor Dan Flannery

Current status: Ongoing meeting on the process

•Interaction with Institute for Prevention of Violence (IPV)

•Identify trends, conditions, and responses locally

•Ability to use computer analysis to identify hot spot areas for targeted deployment of police resources.

•Forecast criminal conditions and occurrences.

New CAD/RMS

Current status: Currently in the 2009 Capital Budget

•Provide information for immediate analysis by police and public

•Improve capability for dispatching resources most able to respond in expedited manner.

•Obtain the ability to integrate with State and Federal databases for information sharing.

Reverse 911 system

Current status: In 2008 Capital Budget

•Ability to send out mass communications to citizens with emergency information.

•Information can be sent to only those particular areas that might be affected and need to be informed.

•Messages can be sent to phones, email, text messages, cell phones.

Video Surveillance Project

Current status: Cameras operational at Madison Park. Capital budget in 2008 provides to expand project to Lakewood Park.

• Currently Deployed in Madison Park

•Seven cameras in operation

•Camera access from Dispatch, Supervisory Personnel and Patrol Cars

Grants for Tasers

Current status: 20 Taser and 20 Cameras for 2008, training tentatively for May 2008.

Dept Officer InjuriesSuspect Injuries

Lethal Force

Force Complaints

Cincinnati 70% 40% * 50%

Austin 53% 80% * 32%

Phoenix * 67% 54% *

Columbus, OH 23% 24%14

“saves” 25%

Charlotte-Mecklenburg, SC 59% 79% 19

“saves”*

Orange County FL 80% * 78% *

Block Clubs

Current status: Lt. of Special Operations assigned as liaison. Future NPO will be assigned upon completion of training.

•Goal is to start and maintain as many block clubs as possible. Neighborhood Officer will become Club Liaison once selected.

•Clubs will serve to foster improved communication with neighborhoods and the police to address concerns of the neighbors and target police and neighborhood response.

G.R.E.A.T.Gang Resistance Education and Training

• Program with the U.S. Marshals’ Office and the Bureau of Justice Assistance

• Directed to educate in areas of peer group associations and risk seeking behaviors.

• Cost effective community-based crime prevention program

• Not a replacement or duplication of DARE but a compliment of that program

• Status: Application for funding for 2009 for training, possible implementation in 2010.

Lakewood Police/Lakewood Schools Collaboration

• Prevention Enforcement• Police Resource

Officers X X• DARE Officers X X• H2O X• Security Cameras in

Squads X• Youth Services X• Task Force on

Juveniles X X• Internship Experiences X• Gang Resistance Initiative X• Joint Emergency Planning X• Joint Design of New Schools X• City Partnership with a School X