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Five Points of the Star SCOTT COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE FIVE POINTS OF THE STAR Kevin Studnicka - Sheriff VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3 OCTOBER, 2009 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: FROM THE SHERIFF By Sheriff Kevin Studnicka PATROL 2 Never Forget Why We your job, it is your decision Do What We Do which way the cruiser goes. SUPPORT STAFF 3 Whether you choose to go As we continue on our own CHAPLAIN SERVICES 3 personal career paths, it’s left or right, stake out a important for each of us to local business late in the remember to keep the shift for criminal activity, or PATROL RESERVE UNIT 4 head on another officer’s “spirit of a good officer” in 4 call, it is your show. After quarterbacking. MOUNTED RESERVE mind. UNIT all, one of the many reasons Many agencies across the Regardless of your role in we have chosen this profes- JAIL 5 nation are facing layoffs and the law enforcement profes- sion is because of the inde- officers are being asked to CRIME PREVENTION 6 sion, it’s important to start pendence it allows. There your shift by going over will be no one to blame at do more with less every CIVIL PROCESS AND 6 several things in your head the end for your shift but day, less money, less per- WARRANTS before the start of your yourself! It is each officers sonnel and in some cases, duty. No matter what the RECREATIONAL SAFETY 7 decision to read up on the less support from the com- news - new policies from 7 latest in policing during munity that you serve. Re- FROM THE CHIEF administration, rumors or your off time to gain the DEPUTY gardless of the external in- gossip stemming from other upper hand in crime trends employees, your inner in your area of responsibil- fluence, we must keep that HOMELAND SECURITY 8 peace comes from remem- ity. “spirit of a good officer”. INVESTIGATIONS 8 bering those things that That positive attitude to- make you love the job. It is your decision to carry a back-up handgun. These wards yourself and the job After loading up your are the decisions that can will keep the brotherhood CAPTAIN’S CORNER 9 cruiser with the equipment impact the outcome of your of the thin blue line strong 9-1-1 Dispatch 11 you may need to complete shift. These things can be a and will keep us committed Little Known Laws 11 weight on to the profession we all your spirit, love: law enforcement As just like ru- always, safety is first and mors, new equipment, foremost! squad car video equip- Regards, ment and Monday Kevin Studnicka morning PAGE 2 FIVE POINTS OF THE STAR PATROL By Deputy Keith Rozeboom Help Us and You Stay see drivers who fail to pull while we’re driving with Safe completely over or in some our red lights on. In addi- cases not at all. Often on- tion, drivers are often Everyone has seen police coming traffic simply con- looking at the approaching cars, ambulances, fire tinues driving without emergency vehicle and may trucks and other emer- moving over. Vehicles that not be paying attention to gency vehicles going to do pull over quite often the other cars in the inter- calls with their pull back onto the roadway section. Pay attention to all lights and siren without looking back. Fre- cars in the area and if possi- on. People are quently, a second emer- ble, pull over to the right, often intrigued gency vehicle is coming and stop until all emer- and distracted, behind the first one. Other gency vehicles have passed. wondering where vehicles may not have Failing to yield to an emer- they are going and yielded to the emergency what’s going on. gency vehicle is dangerous vehicle and may be ap- for you and for us. We This distraction proaching fast from behind can be dangerous understand people are dis- you. After moving over to tracted with kids, work, for you and for the right, before pulling us. and music and possibly back onto the road, take a even the emergency vehicle When we are second look. itself, but failing to yield driving with our lights and We also see drivers who could have drastic conse- siren, it’s called driving come up to an intersection quences. If some sort of code. When we are driv- and quickly speed through event should happen, we ing code to a call, emer- to avoid waiting for an need room to maneuver to gency vehicles are often emergency vehicle to pass. avoid an accident. That going at a higher rate of Crossing through an inter- extra couple of feet that speed than normal. We section is probably the you pull over, that second may be talking on the ra- most dangerous thing we look, could save a life. dio, as well as doing other do when driving code. Please help us and you stay things. Events can happen From a distance, it can be safe. Yield to emergency fast when we are driving very hard to tell how fast vehicles. code; a child may run into emergency vehicles are the street, a vehicle may going and we could be into pull out, any number of the intersection much things can happen. We faster than you think. practice and train driving Other vehicles at an inter- code but we still need your section may also be help. trying to speed Minnesota law requires through in an attempt drivers to yield the right-of to pull off to the right -way to emergency vehicles once through. Emer- and pull over as far as pos- gency vehicles may be sible to the right and stop turning at the intersection. until the emergency vehicle On most emergency vehi- has passed. We regularly cles, our signals don’t show VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3 PAGE 3 SUPPORT STAFF By Support Staff Jill Wolf Annual Purging of In- “Purging”; the message would to determine what needs to mate Booking Files read something along the be retained permanently and lines of: th what documents can be This spring, Jail Administra- Monday, May 18 at 1:00pm purged and then tion asked for volunteers to will be the next File Purging destroyed. help with the annual purging event; please come in and join of inmate booking files. Jane Carol and Chuck for a fun filled Documents that Wiley, Scott County’s Com- couple of hours! There are only are required to be munity Volunteer Coordina- 10 boxes left of the 37! Please kept permanently tor, organized a list of poten- email me if you can join us. are the inmate tial volunteers interested in Booking Card and helping with this project at It doesn’t sound very hard the arresting the jail. Little did these won- does it? Picture yourself sur- agency’s Authority derful volunteers know that rounded by 37 file books to Detain form, all they were getting involved filled to capacity with 3,755 other confidential with a huge project! Purging inmate booking files! information is of Scott County Jail inmate State statute mandates that all allowed by state files is a tedious and time con- confidential paper, inmate statute to be destroyed. We suming task. booking cards and other per- sort through the booking files tinent inmate information be for the inmate’s Booking Imagine receiving an email kept for six years; on the sev- Card and the Authority to sent to “File Purging Group” enth year every inmate book- and in the subject line is ing file needs to be reviewed (Continued on page 10) CHAPLAIN SERVICES By Chaplain Bob Raleigh Confidentiality during a When I respond to calls for committed suicide? Was Crime Scene the Sheriff’s Office, I’m fre- there really a suicide note? quently responding to calls Did it say he hated his son? It isn’t always easy going out involving domestic disputes Did he really cut his own on calls when you’ve lived in and death scenes. I may throat? this community for 38 years. know the people involved . I The calls I respond to are My wife and I have raised may know their family and often considered crime scenes four children who attended friends. I may even know under investigation. The the Belle Plaine School Dis- how events took place and Sheriff’s Office asks me to trict. I’ve worked as a deacon what’s going to happen after- respond to assist with the with the catholic church in wards. family during a troubled and New Prague and still work Unfortunately, what I learn emotional time. No call is with the catholic church in and what I know during the same and I consider it a Belle Plaine. We dairy emergency call outs can’t be privilege to help the deputies farmed for 30 years and my shared with others. You may and the families of our com- wife used to work at the Lu- want to know if the woman of munity. theran Home in Belle Plaine. the house was committed to We know people in this com- The next time you see me and detox and just exactly how munity, have raised kids in ask about a call I was on, drunk was she? Did she really this community and have please know that I would like trash the house like someone worked in this community. (Continued on page 14) said? What about the guy that PAGE 4 FIVE POINTS OF THE STAR PATROL VOLUNTEERS By Reserve Sergeant Dave Gratz THE “GOOD” KIND OF also get requests to do finger- that, of all the agencies offer- FINGERPRINTS prints for those who are going ing fingerprints, Scott County through the adoption process was the only one who offered The Scott County and many other reasons.
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