- OK, I'd like to call this July 17, 2025 regular meeting of the Board of Public Safety to order. And we'd like to welcome our new member, Stephen Walker, to the board. Stephen, tell us a little about yourself. I lived on and off in Bloomington for I grew up in Greene County, so it was kind of always the next door. I've worked for the Department of Corrections for about nine years, so that's currently where I'm at.
- I was happy to see that a position like this opened up, and I'm happy for the opportunity. Great. Good to have you here. And then we have Sarah over there, who's going to be joining us here pretty soon. Yes. You said you work for the police department? Yeah, I work for the police department. Yeah. Oh, cool. Yeah, I work in the administrative office. OK, so you probably don't know those two then. I know them pretty well.
- We'll talk after. That's right. All right. Well, we'll move on to the approval of the consent agenda, approval of minutes from May 20, 2025 regular session, the approval of claims from June 6, 2025, June 20, 2025, July 3, 2025, and July 18, 2025, and the approval of payroll May 30, 2025, June 13, 2025,
- June 27, 2025, and July 11, 2025. Does any member of the board wish to have any one or more of these items removed from the consent agenda to be discussed separately? Hearing none, does any member of the board have any objections to any of the items on the consent agenda? No? Hearing none, the items on the consent agenda are approved. And now we'll go to the police department business.
- And we need help because the clicker does not work here. Maybe I didn't click. Try now. There we go. OK. Calls for Service this month, as you can see, we're now at 42,503, which is up fairly significantly from last year. It continues to trend up.
- They're all over the map, so there's no rhyme or reason. Again, as we've told you before, if there was one or two specific areas, we could effort those to try and bring those calls down. But unfortunately, we simply can't because they're spaced out over all the variety of different calls. This is, again, the year to date compared to the full years of last 23 and 24. So we're seeing ourselves on, right now, a fairly decent track
- It's clearly up. It's always our call volumes who expect that. But none of these categories is over the 23% rise we've seen so far in call volumes. So we're doing pretty well with it. Traffic stops are a little bit down. But again, this is talking about last year versus this year. Clearly, with the increase in call volume, the officers have less time to do proactive traffic stops. But they are definitely trying to do those as they can to effort some of our issues that come about because of traffic.
- Could you ask one quick question on the previous slide? The vehicle thefts? Vehicle thefts. That's actually vehicles being stolen? Yes. Okay, I want to make sure that's correct. Those are the actual vehicles that we are reported stolen to us. That does not include vehicles we recover that are reported stolen to other agencies. So, for instance, if any metro has a car stolen that we recover, that does not show as a vehicle theft on our statistics. It's a vehicle theft for them. Thank you.
- Currents involving weapons are down, again, somewhat. But let's remember this is year to year versus 25 this year to date. So we're still at 54 short of last year. But we've got a couple months yet to go. So we're trending about like last year. Don't see us going much over that. Adult arrests remain consistent. We're down three from last year. But three is not a giant number, clearly, in regard to this.
- and juvenile arrest officer were down three from this time last year. This is not the end of a hate crime reporting period, so I don't have anything for you. That'll come to you in next month. When we get into this, we're looking at, again, a very similar graph that we see monthly for you guys, disturbances, intoxication, vandalism. And as I tell you every month, intoxication has a
- Huge degree to do with all of these categories, not simply the category alone, but so. Training hours this month were 11.39 and a half. We had nine officers attend the department's annual three-day in-service. One officer attended read, interview, and interrogation course. One to Glock armors. Five to the law enforcement academy pre-basic training course. One officer completed a stops instructor course. That's traffic stops, teaching traffic stops.
- One officer completed 24 hours advanced explosive breaching course, and then crisis negotiation team had 7.5 hours for each officer assigned, and K9 had three hours. Community events, there were 27, 63 engagement hours, 40 BPD personnel involved. I won't go over them all, but you can see a lot of the stuff that we did. The ones upcoming, touch a truck has already passed. It's already the 4th of July parades. The reserve at Chandler Glen was yesterday. I think that was fairly well attended, correct there.
- And of course, our ongoing forever friends with the Humane Association. What is the bike index training? It's an effort by our CSSs to help people register their bikes because the common problem is that somebody will get their bike stolen and nobody remembers the serial number on their bike.
- This gives us an index in a way of registering the bikes through the city so that we can look that information up for them. I remember everybody used to have to do that, but nobody did, as I recall. Yeah, this is an effort through our CSSs to kind of get people to do that. Thank you. Can I return to the bike license without the license part? Yeah. I'm just thinking that. Yeah, the little sticker that you never knew where to put. Right. Yeah, exactly. That's the one. Never survived the first time out in the rain. Yeah.
- Police social workers were busy this month. They had 401 contacts, 114 referrals. They made some really good inroads this month with getting an elderly client taken to the hospital, finding a very ill in the apartment. They had two teen clients they'd been working a lot with, some emotions surrounding Father's Day, as both of their fathers had recently passed away. Some veteran service issues that came up that they dealt with. They had peer support for a neighboring agency that had a first responder suicide.
- The outreach specialists continue to take the lead role, completing some housing assessments, and then providing assistance to those who need to complete Section 8 applications that are fairly lengthy and attended coordinated entry meetings. They also continue the street outreach downtown. Really, we're able to build it up with a couple of our long-term unhoused individuals. And hopefully, they're making some good inroads to getting those people to accept services, which has been a problem for them in the past. So this may be anecdotal, and I haven't reached out
- But I'm hearing from friends on the east side that folks are being dismissed in the afternoon or late afternoon who then don't have transportation to get anywhere. And they end up, well, a couple of pastors on the east side have shared with me this concern. It may just be that it's happened recently and
- It's not a pattern, but I'm wondering if there's any linkage with the social work people at the hospital. I can't speak to that directly. I'm engaged with those since that no longer falls in our jurisdictional area. It's IPD's jurisdictional area. They actually have their own department at the hospital. So it's in IPD? Well, it's Indian History Health. Indian History Health has their own police department. Oh. Who then, their first in backup. Oh. Yes. Their first in backup is?
- IU Police, and then we come as needed after that fact. Now, clearly, we're a user of the hospital because we take care of people there. But it no longer falls in our primary area of operation because the hospital now sits on university property. But again, IU Health has their own statewide police department. There are actually police officers that are in there no longer security. That is very helpful. Thank you. You're welcome. Are you ready to move to general business?
- I know that it kind of falls into personnel issues. We're currently in the process of ramping up a sworn only process for selections for new hires. I don't remember how many Captain Pettigrew said he's got in the process, 10 or 15. How many of those survived to get to where they're actually taking the test? We'll be able to update you on next month, but that's the ones that have at least expressed interest at this point. Other than that, not a whole lot of other general business to share with you just yet.
- personnel issues, we talked a little about that hiring process, we've got 12 in the hiring room. 11 in FTO, five of them are waiting to go to the academy, six of them that are already certified are in FTO and they actually, everybody just moved to their next phase so they're progressing really nicely and we, I'm sorry, five of them
- Our NFTO and the other certified is currently just finishing up some training for his certification and has a medical issue that we're dealing with, just an injury that'll heal up before he hits the road. But yeah, they're all progressing well, and the five are scheduled to go to the academy at the end of August.
- On the personal issues, we have three that are on long-term light duty. They're helping out right now down in investigations with a couple of projects. Can't give you a really return to work date on those. Those are some injuries and some illnesses that have got a longer term healing period that we're just going to have to wait out with the officers as it goes. But they're actually, like I said, getting to do some stuff to help out in investigations. It's helping patrol on the other end. As far as purchase expenditures, you'll see a couple coming through. None of them are really large.
- or unexpected. You're going to see the continual replacement cycle that we have. As you're well aware, everything we own is on a replacement cycle. It's the only way to keep from falling behind. So literally cars, firearms, less lethal munitions, even the dogs, they are on a replacement cycle. So when it comes around, they get replaced. Because otherwise, we fall behind and have to come back to council asking for more money. So we just keep going with it.
- You'll see the large expenditure probably this month is for body armor. That's a state mandated thing that we have to take care of. Clearly we would anyways, but a lot of people ask why every year, because it's mandated every year. So the officers get new vests and new hard armor every five years as mandated by the state. And to assert ARV deployment, there were no uses in the armored rescue vehicle this month.
- So these are our year to date runs, incident types. So we're at 3,073 for the year to date in June on track. So we're actually, if we compare it to June of 2024, we're a little bit down, like 11 runs. But from five years ago, we're up 150 runs for the month of June.
- Again, primarily in the city. You can see that we've been on campus even though they are not present. We're still going to IU quite a bit. Yeah. But a lot of times the false alarms are maintenance projects that are going on and, you know, a steam vent or something goes off and hits a smoke detector and it registers particulates in the air so it goes off. Same as they were emptying.
- shop vac or something under a detector, it also measures those particulates. Runs for fire department, we are getting on scene like when we're supposed to. So the blue is for under 240 seconds, which is ideally what we would like to see. And heat response map for just the month of June, as you can see, we've been all over the place. The red spots, we've been more frequently.
- So when I saw this map, I was wondering, it seemed to me that there's some new hot spots there.
- If you compare month to month, if you want to see them month to month, you can see it. But yeah, you can see like right now where we have the Jordan extension, where the campus, we're just having green. We're not having any red. So as the students come back in September, in August, you will see that that stripe will be lighting up a little bit more. So we have West 3rd, the dot here in the middle of the red. That's West Plex.
- and Wheeler. Shalom is the middle. Kinzer flats is the kind of mid and then we have Henderson Crawford Apartments down south. So those are our hot spots and then on
- on out closer to Moore's Pike. I'm not sure what that location is. It's Redbud, I think. Oh, OK. Yeah, that would make sense. Redbud. Redbud Hill. So even though it's an independent living, we're beginning calls for falls. So that's when so many falls, and they kind of trigger MIH to go. But it's still initially the fire department's going to help them.
- inspection so the middle circle graph that's their goal is to 200 2250 inspections for commercial entities or agencies in within the city limits we're at 26 percent we started tracking their outreach by month so we just started that in May and so this is when the inspectors are actually educating people while they're doing the inspections not just maintenance but maybe office workers or someone late come
- Come winter, they'll be educating office why all the ladies can't have space heaters near their feet, right? Because it's a fire heat. But we say this is why. And so we're doing it. You're terrible. Well, you can have one in your office, but it needs to not be this. And if it falls over, it needs to stop automatically. I got yelled at about that once. Yeah. Yeah. So yes.
- Have one in your office. Have the inspector come in your office and go through stuff. Anyway, education for our age groups, we're looking at. We'll see summer. I know there's not a lot of school visits, of course, going on. But there's a lot of IU educational events coming up in August. Be interacting with the RAs and the resident assistants on campus.
- in the Greek homes, and they'll be doing all kinds of fire drills with them. And then smoke detector installs will be catching up with that hopefully soon as well. Training, this is just for the month of June. And overall, we are at the 58% of our yearly goal, which is 42,000 hours of training, as we can see.
- like said the categories where we're at how they're breaking in by month so but we had lieutenant Casey went to it was a chaplain's conference for our peer support so he went to the chaplain's conference there in Kansas City. VEIS is for vent inner
- isolate and search training. So that's for the truckies who go in with the ladder and so they're venting and entering and then isolating, shutting the door basically and then searching the room.
- And truckies do not typically have a hose line with them. So this is get in, get out, quickly do what you need to do. So flash over train burr. I don't know if you guys followed that on Facebook, but we had that delivery and then the train the trainer. So this flash over is.
- when basically the room, the entire room catches on fire like all at once and it's not survivable. Even firefighters with gear, you have like eight seconds. So it's important to know the basically signs and symptoms of that before it happens so you can get out and not get caught in it. So it's a very, it's a vital part of our recruit academy and then just keeping everybody updated on it because like I said,
- You don't have a lot of time to react. And then we had people taking vehicle technician course and surface water. So we had people who were out on the lake with Monroe fire in their boat and mobile integrated health care. Like I said, we officially opened as the only permanent child car seat fitting station. So it said six.
- In June, we are up to 11 and had to place another order. With the state, they already went through all their month supply of the rear-facing car seats. So they have the older child ones, the toddler ones that sit forward, but they've already gone through all those and had to place an additional order for that.
- worked with the mall, which is the mobility aid lending library. So if someone needs a cane, a walker, something along those lines, you can basically just borrow it like a regular library. So our people go and help them two hours a week. And then when they need one, they can actually go access it and deliver it them.
- themselves so it's it's a partnership with them. They've done some community walks in addition to being in the Fourth of July Parade and then we had they connected a patient with a licensed social worker and a death doula as they're going as a patient's going through a hospice. I didn't know we had any death doulas. Yeah we have that and we actually have one of our MIHS who's looking at
- taking that certification awareness so we can offer that as well. So as you can see, I said average number of visits per client, 12.8. This includes the daily check-ins Monday through Friday for some people that require some more attention. So 11 car seats again for June, so we're good. And do we have any questions?
- Yeah, thank you. They help set up and tear down after their event. So crews headquarters routinely go out and help with the boys and girls club with their special events. And it's always nice to get thanked. And then our public engagement officer, Fagola, he spent some time out at Stoneville.
- General business if anyone's interested in joining we have a swearing-in ceremony for our two new lateral hires on September 26th at 2 p.m. in the council chambers so if you would like to join please do. It's usually fun fun event to go to. What time is that again? 2 p.m. on the 26th so that will be the two two laterals that should bring us up to full staffed.
- Personal issues, we have one off on workers comp right now. He should be back on light duty sometime in the near future, but he'll be probably before the end of the year before he'll be back on full duty. And then as far as expenses, you saw the flash over chamber was delivered, so we paid that out. That's a great piece of equipment. We burned it many times, and it's the nicest one. Functioned the best of any I've been in yet. So it's really, really nice, especially with the newer
- We have a lot of newer folks in the department right now, so it's really good to be able to show them some of that fire behavior. We had a delivery of the Polaris Ranger. I mentioned that in a past meeting. That's part of a grant the MIH has secured for expansion of their services. So now they can use this Ranger for special events, and they can access people better with it. And it's a nice addition to their fleet. Upcoming expenses, there's our training tower is going to be getting maintenance and painting here in the near future.
- It's with the heat generated from inside that and corrosion, it just needs attention every so often. So it'll have a fresh coat of paint on it. When it's done, it'll look nice down there. And then lastly, just you'll see ongoing costs associated with our couple bond projects that have been underway for quite a while now. Any questions?
- Do you ever do public demonstrations of the flash over chamber? I'd love to see that. Well, it's new for us. We've not had them before. I think that's a good idea. That'd be cool. Yeah, absolutely. We can't go in. I understand that. You could, but if you want to. A little training first. We can do a waiver and make that happen. No waiver would be strong enough. Trouble in the backseat says no.
- OK, it wasn't verbal. But no, that's a great idea. So far, we've only burned in it so that we have a slew of instructors that can then, in turn, offer the training to our guys. So here pretty soon, we'll have a lot more capabilities to put it on more frequently. And yeah, we love to show it off. It's nice. All right. In your business.
- Anybody wants to discuss? No? New business? No? And anybody in the back, back there? No? None of that? Well, then I call this meeting adjourned. Thank you.