Well, good morning. I'm Russell Kitchener, and I would like to call this meeting of the Board of Public
Safety to order. And so I will. First, I'd like to acknowledge we have two new members of this board,
Chuck and Patrick. I trust that all of you have met both of these people and vice versa.
We did not have an executive session. So what I would like to do first is ask that we have a motion
to certify the consent agenda. Have you seen that agenda? Is there a motion to approve that consent
agenda? So moved. Thank you. Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Motion is passed. We need to.
the minutes or is that folded into that consent agenda? I think the minutes are in the consent agenda.
Thank you very much. So we'll just pass on those items. So next I'd like to ask if we could have a report
from the police department on monthly statistics and training. We can't. Sir, can you pull off the little
box there?
So as you can see, we're trending a little bit down this year from last year. Over the month past,
we had 6,295 calls for service as opposed to 6,833 the year before. That's a 7.9 decrease. And if I
don't miss my guess, that's the largest decrease in call volume we've had month to month for several
years. Until we get into a deep dive and have probably three or four months to look at it, you really
can't tell one way or the other.
Probably as good a guess as any, though. Sarah, we're back to not working here. It's right there. Here
we go with our monthly crime statistics. Remember the ones where we're looking at the positive negative
percentages, small numbers, changes sometimes equating to very large percentages.
We're tracking about, as we would say, normal for the year to date, trending a little bit down.
But again, let's see how that shapes up over time. Next. Is this not working for you? No, no. Traffic
stop comparison also continues to trend just a little bit downward, but we're only talking about 21
traffic stops. So that's not substantive. Next.
We did have a slight increase in calls for weapons this month as compared to the month last year. Again,
no rhyme or reason to that. We'll have to look at that over the period of time. Next. Adult arrest also
decreased. I'm sorry, increased. I don't know that we have the data from February yet, do we? Should
be in there. It's in this after the March slides. We have all the February slides. OK. Go from there.
It's not yet the end of the hate crime reporting period. We'll bring that to you in April. See how long
it lasts. And our generalized graph that I tell you the same every month, that all of these pretty much
involve some substance or another, disturbances being one of the largest calls for services we take.
Training, we had 157 hours this week, or this month, 36 hours completed one-armed firearms training.
20 officers completed a one-hour wrap training that is an immobilization device that we use for combative
prisoners so they can't injure themselves or officers. Basically, it's a large velcro sleeve that goes
around their upper torso and their legs to keep them from kicking, keep them from thrashing about. Seven
officers completed a breath test recertification, three with one-hour IDACs, which is our computer system.
A sergeant attended the first-line sergeant's training course, and 15 hours for canine.
Many events, there were six for 12.6 hours. You can see what they were. They were DRO outreach, a tour
for a local Cub Scout, child seed education, and we have continuing forever friends that we partnered
with the Humane Association on. This is the March report. You'll see we're still down. Calls for service,
and we're back into the
Same type of percentage up and down here. Not really seeing a drastic increase or decrease in anything
yet. Traffic stops, we're slightly up in March comparatively. We're coming back down in weapons calls
after that month had passed. We're doing two of these here. Our adult arrests are up for both months,
compared to the last year.
Juvenile referrals, way up in January, decreased in February. Still not the end of the reporting period.
Looks vastly similar to last month. And training hours for this month, a lot more training hours. We
had 31 officers patrol rifle, 20 officers completed emotional survival training. Seven completed 20
hours of annual in-service training. Four completed their CIT training, which is crisis intervention
team training.
Three officers completed a drone assessment response tactics training. Two for the Reed Interview School
for 36 hours, two officers for 41.25 hours of the probation officer's training course training. One
officer attended a standard field spright technique course. And you can see the very specialty units
for canine, crisis negotiators, and civil disturbance unit. Community service remained consistent.
And now we're into police social workers. They had 181 referrals, 320 contacts. You can see the highlights.
They assisted an unhoused client moving into a new apartment. They worked really diligently with this
person to make sure that they got into their new apartment. Kind of the first time in a while that they've
had a stable home life. Assisted another who was a frequent 911 service user, both for us and Fire,
and got in touch with family in Florida and facilitated the transfer of that person back to family.
hosted mental health intensive training for members of BPD and other agencies. Our outreach specialist
worked with a gentleman who was living in the woods for two and a half years, got him into an apartment,
and they were able to get visits with his children reestablished. It was a huge win for them. They also
were able to talk to people who had previously refused services into at least getting on the list for
housing. Again, a big win there.
assisted two other unhoused community members moving into housing. And then we're to general business.
Really don't have anything for you guys other than you'll start seeing bills on your replacement. Just
the same as always. It's just a routine thing. As things are replaced, you'll get the bills from them.
So. Personnel.
We currently have 93 sworn out of the 105 that we are authorized. One of the individuals on this list
decided not to. Dylan Irwin just told me two days ago that he was no longer interested in employment
and didn't complete the testing as he needed to do. So he will not be in this list of those as far as
an official offer of employment.
This would, if all six of these are approved by the board, local pension and state pension, that would
bring us to 99 and we currently have another ongoing process with certified officers. We have six interviews
scheduled, five tomorrow and then one probably next Tuesday. So I'm still waiting to confirm that one
and that could get us close to that if all of those were to make it through the
the entire process that get us close to full staffing. Always have the potential retirements or things
like that, but that would get us hopefully over that, at least over that 100 number, which we haven't
been in years. So I'm just asking for the board's approval to move these. It's actually.
I only need approval from the board for five, because one is already in the 1977 police pension fund.
So therefore, that is just a transfer. That person's already been accepted in. So there's no signature
page for that individual, but then the other five seeking the board's approval to move them forward
one step closer to employment. So I would entertain a motion to approve
the employment of those five? That's my understanding. To extended conditional. I'd generally like to
have you do that individually. Individually? Which five of that? Here's all their packets if it's easiest.
Okay. So I would entertain a motion to approve for employment. Tyler McLaughlin? Move to approve. Second.
Second. All in favor? Aye.
Motion to approve Cade Lindsay. Is that Cade or Katie? Cade. Cade. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Moved to approve.
Second. All in favor? Aye. I have a motion to approve Harrison Fleetwood. Moved to approve. Second.
All in favor? Aye. Motion to approve Zachary Brock. Moved to approve. Second. Thank you. All in favor? Aye.
And finally, Dustin Carpenter? Move to approve. Second. Thank you. All in favor? Aye. It may be best
to go ahead since the, just to get board's approval to offer employment to Stephen Hatton, but he, I
won't need a signature page for him because he is already in the 77. All right. Is there someone that
we'd undertake a motion to approve Mr. Hatton? Move to approve. Second. All in favor? Aye.
Thank you very much. Thank you. Purchasers, purchases and expenditures? Again, we kind of went a little
before the horse there. That's all right. You'll see the regular routine purchases, again, so that the
new board members are aware. Everything that we own is on a cyclical replacement cycle. Some have a
two year, five year, 10 year, seven year cycles. And a certain percentage of the department will be
cycled out every year on those pieces of equipment.
That way, we're not having huge expenditures for one piece of equipment or another. And we have different
generations of models in our fleet, for want of a better word. That way, we don't get stuck with a bad
batch of anything. It's also easier to budget for, which is why we do it. Moving on, any questions there?
Moving on, cert ARB deployments. Don't think we had any with the ARB involved this month. Well, thank
you very much.
I have one question. Sure. Can you say what the current status is with the flock cameras? I think that's
something better addressed with the administration and the chief. That is something that I know that
both the mayor's office and also the chief of police have been coordinating with Council on. And I prefer
that we probably see their comment rather than us talking. I understand. I was just curious. Thank you.
Thank you very much. Thank you. Moving on to the fire department statistics. So for our year to date,
We've had 1,050 calls for service of those. February is 512, so half. And then break down the numbers
of what is the most popular call with medical. And we've changed the new nationally. Fire is classifying
their calls differently.
with a new system called Nearest. So our false alarms are now categorized under the no-emergency. I
wondered about that. Yeah, so that's, yeah. There was no choice in that. It was a national thing. Again,
like I said, IU, we had 62 runs to campus this month. And when you break down to IU,
what the calls are, medical, and then public service. A lot of times, public services also, there's
an odd situation, and so they don't know who to call. But then no emergency also. All right, for fire
inspections, so we are at 6% of our goal so far. We have set the goal for 2,000.
I said we're just at 127. For community engagement so far, again, with the inspectors, when they're
doing education, they're on the left there. So for the year, we're looking, what do I have there? 565
for the year. We could see that last year, we only did partial year.
smoke detectors and whatnot that are on the right hand side. So we've not done any school visits this
year. And that will pick up shortly when the weather gets nicer. And then we've actually had 13 smoke
detector installations. I'd say intercity training or public education officer
He went down to utilities and they did some live fire with some fire extinguisher training there. And
they insisted on having live fire. And then they put it in there. We also have a digital one, but somehow
it's more realistic to practice the fire extinguisher with the actual, you know, one that's going out
than a laser beam. Training hours for the
A year so far, we're at 20% of our goal. So pretty consistent from January to February. So we had actually
hosted the NIMS classes, which is the incident command system. 300 and 400 are higher level ones, despite
the numbers. I mean, it looks like 300 or 400 would be basic, but these are bigger incidents, and we
want our upper staff
Accessibility training, Chief Litwin and Chief Drescher went to the ISO, which is the Insurance Service
Office, one that does our rating for our classes. And then EMS training with the mega code, that's what
that is, cardiac arrest. And we got some new radios that are very neat. And then we had Chief Drescher,
who was our Battalion Chief of Training, he went to the
Fire Chief Training Academy in Lanefield there. That's a week. MIH for Mobile Integrated Healthcare,
we've done 13 car seats this year. They worked with a senior living facility, and like I said, they
got three people, at least three that were determined to have high blood pressure and high blood sugar,
so they're following
being taken care of or addressed by their medical providers. We had the domestic violence incident,
and so they got the police involved with there. I guess it's not sure how they got the call first, but
police were involved with that, because that's as well as it should be. And then mall, which is the...
mobility aids lending library. They got a patient what they needed through there so they could get out
and about. And then we had a medical issue and got them to the hospital. And then we taught the teachers
at Harmony School of CPR. Any questions on any of that? Thank you. General business and personnel, we
can kind of
So we have three new recruits starting April 27th. That fills our three operational vacancies and brings
us up to full staff operationally. So that's maintaining that. Yeah. So we had three, two retirements.
One was a voluntary resignation and we put lists ready and we're filling them rather quickly. So that'll
be good to be back to a hundred percent. Our fire marshal is leaving here in the next couple of months.
So we have a hiring process underway to replace him.
And then we also have two new mobile integrated health care employees that started recently, bringing
that division up to fully staff. So cycling well with the personnel. Who's the fighter, Marshall?
Tim Platt. He's been with us for a while. This is an uncommon one to see. Other personnel issues, we
have one on light duty, one on FMLA, and currently have eight with intermittent baby bonding time available.
As far as purchases, we have a few items that were previously declared that have come in and are now
complete. The first is the radios that Chief Deferment mentioned, and they are really, really neat.
They have taken care of some issues we've had in the past. The prior radios relied on towers to communicate,
so we commonly would encounter issues at some of the IU buildings where we couldn't get out to talk
to one another. So the new radios utilize radio towers
cell signal and Wi-Fi, of which we coordinated with IU to have access. So there's really no, we're gonna
find a channel to communicate through one way or another. So that's really good. They also even have
GPS. So you can see the location of the radios. Detailed enough, you can actually track individuals
within a fire and a structure and where they are based on where the radio is. There's a screen on them.
You can look up hydrant locations. They are a great upgrade for us. We had two
engines come in. One is from a new vendor, HME, and it had about a three-month turnaround. It was a
stock unit, and it arrived at a better price. The other one was from our previous vendor, and it took
about two to three years to get it. So hopefully we're navigating this issue of an extended lead time
on some of these engines by maybe switching up vendors or going with stock units as an advantage
pricing as of now appears to be better. So they both came in at the same time, even though they were
ordered on a very different timeline. So it's good to have those in. And lastly, I'd mentioned in the
past, we had a few projects at the stations making the restrooms go from communal to individual. And
those are all complete now. Station two, four, and five are subject to those. And those are all done.
They look great. Any questions on any of that?
Sure, I can update our training logistics building on South Walnut. There's ongoing expenses to that.
It's scheduled to be completed September 11th. So moving along, coordinated some of that with PD and
worked well together on it. So it actually looks like a building now. It's not just a mud pit down there.
Yeah, pretty impressive. Yeah, it's coming along. Can't wait to show you guys the final product. It's
going to be really, really nice. And we should have a churro, definitely. We should have a churro. Yeah,
I'd love to. Absolutely.
Any other questions from either the fire or police departments? Then moving on, old business.
Hearing none, new business. Are we done? I think so. Any petitions or questions from guests?
I'd like to thank the fire department police department for the quick response to the tornado that hit
up there and we take care of the animal shelter and getting things put back together. That was great.
I was hoping for some money from the bank flying around. I heard there was money flying around. Was
that not true? I didn't get there in time. The only thing I have is I went through and I typed out
Our meetings, everyone can kind of post on a refrigerator so everybody knows when they're coming up.
I went through the year, and so I just put the dates everywhere when they are, because I'm a more visual
person. So if anybody wants one, I've got several. I think it's all on my calendar. OK. Any other comments
or questions? If not, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Second. All in favor? Aye.
We are adjourned.