All right. I'd like to call this September 24, 2025 special session of the Board of Public Safety to
order. And we'll go on to the approval of the consent agenda. The consent agenda for this afternoon
consists of certification of the executive sessions from 8-21-2025 and 9-24-2025, approval of minutes
from August 21, 2025, regular session, approval of claims from
August 29, 2025, to September 12, 2025, and September 26, 2025. Approval of payroll from August 22,
2025, to September 5, 2025, and September 19, 2025. And 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?
Hearing none, the items on the consent agenda are approved. All right, now we'll go on to police justice.
All right, our stats for the month. Calls for service, as you can see, we continue to trend up.
To date, through August, we've responded to 56,500 calls for service. That's an increase of almost or
a little over 7,400 calls for service from the same period in 2024, showing us about a 15% increase.
This tracking with our trend continue to have a lot of calls for service and continue to stay pretty
busy. You can go to the next one. Great. Comparisons, 23 to 25 crime totals, as you can see,
Our trends are kind of all across the board. You'll notice that some of the crimes have gone up. Some
have trended a little down this year. But all around, again, we don't have one solid area where we're
seeing a constant increase or decrease. Traffic stop comparison, traffic stops
Year to date are about on track for what we saw over the last couple of years. They are slightly down
from 24, but we're obviously not at the end of the year. And officers continue to look at traffic issues
and enforce as necessary. Crimes involving weapons, so far in 2025, we've had 199 incidents with weapons involved.
Firearms have been reported in about 70% of those incidents in 2025. And 17 of those resulted in an
incident where a firearm was fired at a person. Slightly down, but again, we're not all the way through
the year. So we'll see how that continues to trend for us. Adult arrests this month have jumped up.
August is, in some regards, a busy month for us.
It is where students start to come back. We have a lot more contacts. Calls for service generally go
up, so adult arrests generally go up as well. Juvenile referrals were slightly up this month. Nothing's
particularly significant. And just a little over what we experienced in 2024. No hate crimes in
This is not a hate crime reporting period. That'll be at the end of September, but today we don't have
any. Nuisance calls, again, disturbances continue to be almost 80% of our nuisance type calls and followed
by vandalism and intoxication. As we always like to point out when we look at this graph, intoxication is
usually a factor in our nuisance calls as well. It's just not the reason, the primary call, or primary
reason for the call. Next step. Training hours. We had a little over 1,400 training hours this month.
Some highlights. 13 of our officers attended a crisis negotiation conference. We had 10 officers complete
their three-day in-service. We had four officers attend a 16-hour K-9 legal course.
We had some recertification courses attended. We had one officer attend a 12 hour ICAT instructor
certification course, which ICAT is about decision making and deescalation. And we continue to use it
routinely in all of our training modalities. So having an extra instructor there is helpful. We had
officer go through some leadership training specifically for task force and detectives.
and one of our officers attended an eight hour mental health first aid course. Our usual monthly training
with K9 and CDU occurred as well. Next slide. Community engagement, we had 13 events for the month of
August for 53 hours and we had 26 personnel involved. You see what we did previously in the month of
August coming up.
Actually, I think Touch a Truck at Monroe Hospital already occurred. We started our Residence Academy,
and that's ongoing every Tuesday night for the next several weeks where they'll go through a variety
of topics. We continually work on our outreach with Forever Friends, with the Humane Society, and
We continually work with BFD, MIH, for car seat clinics. When is that? It's Friday from 3 to 5. I actually
had it on my notes to make sure we were getting credit for it. We already put the Facebook post on.
I just shared it. OK. We'll stay with it. We're taking it. Talk to our Facebook person about that. Actually,
it was my post that they reposted.
There we go. There you go. All right. Our social workers, our mental health professional, our mental
health provider team did 120 referrals and had 664 contacts. Some highlights, some wins from there.
They assisted a client with access to grief support group for mothers grieving the loss of a child,
connected a client with Centerstone,
For mental health services, assisted an elderly client with getting their house prepared for them to
return home. And our ORS folks assisted two long-term clients with collecting all the necessary paperwork
to get them moved into an apartment, which should be happening in September. That's a big win for us
anytime we can move somebody through that process and get them into some housing. ORS participated with
the library and community kitchen in assisting customer.
are some customers with their social service needs and or assisted a client with applying for food stamps
and Medicaid. No major general business. I'll let Captain Pedigo go over personnel unless you have some
general business. No, I'm good. I'm just checking. We currently sit at 94 out of 105 authorized as of
I think, actually, we went to 94 this week. We had one with a medical retirement. So we dropped down
to 11 short. We have the three, four conditionals today, and several have reached out recently inquiring
about when our next open process will be. Again, we're kind of running in that area where we start to
kind of saturate our ability to train new officers. But we have five at the Academy right now. And when
they come back, they're obviously
That'll put some more, if these three make it through the entire process, or if they're approved by
the board, make it through the process. And then we tack on five more. That'll be pretty taxing on our
field training unit. So kind of at the mercy of our ability to train new officers right now as far as
having another open hiring process. OK. All right. We'll go on to the promotion.
Can I get a motion to promote senior police officer Jeffrey Rabel to the rank of sergeant effective
September 15, 2025? I so move. So we got a motion. Can we get a second? I'll second that. We have a
second. I have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? No discussion. All in favor say aye.
Aye. None opposed. The motion passes.
Thank you.
Thank you very much. Speech? Do you want to give a speech or anything? No. Do you want me to stick around,
or am I all around you? Stick around. OK, we'll go on to the approval of conditional employment of Scarva
Chondra. Can I get a motion for conditional offer
of employment for Skyler Condor, conditional upon completion of all remaining steps of the hiring process.
I would move that. Second. I have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? No? No discussion.
All in favor? Say aye. Opposed? None. Motion passes. All right. Can I get a motion for conditional offer
of employment for Gabrielle Mitcham, conditional upon the completion of all remaining
all the remaining steps of the hiring process. Motion. We got a motion and a second. Is there a discussion?
No. All in favor, say aye. Aye. None opposed. Motion passes. Can I get a motion for conditional offer
of employment for Andrew Shelton conditional upon the completion of all remaining steps of the hiring
process? I make a motion. OK. We got a motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. I have a second.
OK, we have motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? None. Motion passes.
Thank you. Purchases and expenditures, you'll continue to see our usual refit of equipment expenditures
such as that. We had some vehicle purchases that were just replacement vehicles, other equipment that
is just coming up on its usual replacement cycle.
We had one ARV deployment in August, which was for a high-risk search warrant in which the suspect was
known to be armed. And that occurred without any major incidents, no use of the force or anything like that.
So year to date, we're at 45, 19 for runs. That's the breakdown for the year to date. For August, 18
fire calls. Rescue EMS 274 has met 29. Service, 72. False alarms, 131. Other, 110. So those runs for
August, it is up 12% from August of 24 and up 42% from August of 2020.
Incident types. Again, here they are. Just said that. And then IU, 525. So it's gone up 13% in the last
month. Of course, it matters when they're on campus. But we had false alarms even when they weren't
on campus. So it's that. Next. And then listen. Do I need to go back? No. You are right on track. No.
Just a graphic on.
IU and their 425 25 runs for here to date. And then responses. I had to give two points of our runs
were so dispersed that they really didn't have any hotspots in August, which was odd. So and then our
inspection activity. See, we're at 32% of our goal and these are commercial inspections, the ones that
would be more high risk.
left-hand side their outreach so we just started that in May and so year-to-date we're at 646 and they
did a big chunk of it in August. 59 smoke detector installations to date and right now our community
engagement officer he's spending a lot of time at Novo. I'm not sure what the last part of the name
is but it's the former Cadillac their entire plant's getting
Training on fire extinguisher trainings hands-on for that So training for August so it's training by
month our trending so summer is typically low But we've still had September hours are going to increase
due to the two new hires that started September 15th. They are going to be sworn in two o'clock
I believe all of you got an invitation to that. That's at council chambers. We had the August conferences,
leadership block 100, 200 is being hosted. Well, it's actually the week of 9-11. So you'll see that
next month. And then continuation of tech rescue training. Next, MIH.
We again have our car seat, our shared car seat event Friday with the health department and PT at three
to five Showers West. And you can see where we've had, like I said, we had three car seats in August.
They've done a few things out in the community. So we went to the Stride Center for a patient with infected
leg wounds.
They're all better now due to their involvement getting them where they needed to be. They were at PD's
National Night Out, and we made first aid kits for backpacks. And then we've done community events after
hours and provided first aid care. And that's it. General business. We have the ongoing lots of purchases
expenditures. General business.
Our Merit Commission approved a hiring list of 15 just last night. So we're good there. We still have
an open posting for administrative assistant, which is part time. Right now we have 140 applicants for
that part time position with no benefits, which I can't figure that out. So the swearing in, the car seat.
Personnel issues, we have one person out on long term is out for work comp. We won't see him back until
26 most likely. Three are off on light duty. One of them was, we actually had two injuries at the summit
point fire. One's still on light duty and one's returned to duty from that. One off on FMLA, he'll be
back next month.
And then financially, we have the ongoing bond projects, Station 3. The grand reopening will be October
6, at 3.30 in the afternoon for that. And they are moving grounded, are training in the logistics center.
And we look to be under roof, as I've heard it, February. They are anticipating nasty weather. So we
were hoping December.
That's it. That's it. Any old business to discuss? New business? Just like to say to the police department,
really appreciate the extra patrol on Kirkwood and Dunn. That's been noticed and looks like it's helping
quite a bit. Because I know it was getting pretty crazy down there. OK. Any petitions or communications
from the audience?
No? All right. This special session of the Board of Public Safety is adjourned.