Published: August 1, 2016
HONORING THE FALLEN Visit www.bpd.net for Patrolmen Alec Thompson and Kyle Cutler represent- more BPD information ed the men and women of the Biddeford Police Department at the services for the five fallen Dallas, Texas police officers. Thompson and Cutler, on their own time, joined law enforcement officers and officials from across the country and honored their fallen comrades: Brent Thompson, Patrick Zamarripa, Michael Krol, Michael Smith, and Lorne Ahrens. JetBlue Airlines offers free CONFIDENTIAL TIPS flights to police officers nationwide when attending Everyone can play a role in
keeping our community safe services for officers killed in the line of duty. and improving the quality of
In 1970, the well-known broadcaster and commentator, life by sharing information
Paul Harvey, gave a belated eulogy for his father who regarding any behavior or
activity seen and suspected had died when Harvey was a child. His father, a Tulsa, to be criminal in nature. Oklahoma policeman, was killed in the line of duty. Harvey’s words seem as appropriate today as they TIPS can be made by calling the non-emergency line at would have been in 1921 or as they were in 1970. 282-5127 or by clicking on Below are selective excerpts: Officers Thompson and Cutler one of the tip icons at What is a policeman? He, of all men, is at once the most needed and the most wanted… a www.bpd.net. strangely nameless creature who is sir to his face and pig or worse behind his back. He You can provide TIPS to us must be such a diplomat that he can settle differences between individuals so that each will anonymously but it is very think he won, but… helpful to be able to have contact information when If a policeman is neat, he's conceited; if he's careless, he's a bum. If he's pleasant, he's a officers follow up on the flirt; if he's not, he's a grouch. He must make instant decisions which would require information you provide. months for a lawyer, but… REMEMBER If he hurries, he's careless; if he's deliberate, he's lazy. He must be first to an accident, If you are reporting a crime infallible with the diagnosis. He must be able to start breathing, stop bleeding, tie splints in progress or if you are in and, above all, be sure the victim goes home without a limp. need of any emergency services, please dial 9-1-1! The police officer must know every gun, draw on the run, and hit where it doesn't hurt. He must be able to whip two men twice his size and half his age without damaging his uniform and without being brutal. If you hit him, he's a coward, if he hits you, he's a bully. The policeman must, from a single human hair, must be able to describe the crime, the weapon and the criminal -- and tell you where the criminal is hiding, but…if he catches the criminal, he’s lucky, if he doesn’t he is a dunce.
He runs files and writes reports until his eyes ache to build a case against some felon who'll get dealed out by a shameless shamus. 39 Alfred Street The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a Biddeford, Maine 04005 gentleman. And of course he'll have to be a genius because he'll have to feed a family on a policeman's salary. 207-282-5127 non-emergency By Paul Harvey, 1918 - 2009 www.bpd.net August 1, 2016
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Recently, pedestrian warning signs and lights PEDESTRIAN SAFETY were installed for the crosswalk at the corner of Elm Street and Lamothe Avenue. Earlier this year, two of our officers presented
informational sessions on various aspects of personal and financial safety to several senior citizens groups in our community.
In addition to asking the officers many questions regarding the topics, many citizens shared concerns that they hoped could be addressed. This crosswalk, used by many Crosswalk on Elm Street At Lamothe Avenue citizens of all ages, was a common concern expressed. In recent years, this area of Elm Street has seen pedestrians injured by motor vehicles. These pedestrian crossing lights were supplied by the Maine Department of Transportation as part of a traffic safety grant.
CRISIS NEGOTIATION TRAINING Today’s dispatchers, whether they be members of Biddeford’s Communication Center or any center in the United States, are experiencing an ever-increasing volume of emergency calls and many of those calls involve some type of critical incident. Nationally, the need for crisis communication training for dispatchers is unquestioned. Dispatchers are best described as the “first person” on the scene of every incident; even though it may be virtual and not physical. They perform a complex and stressful job function within law enforcement and handle all types of crisis and emergency incidents. Our dispatchers deal with an array of job functions. One minute the can be providing emergency medical guidance to a caller until EMS arrives on-scene and the next minute they can be perform- ing research or administrative tasks. Dispatchers must perform these functions while remaining calm and focused, as well as ensuring the safety of the caller and responding emergency personnel. The outcome of emergency situations depends on the ques- tions asked, the decisions made, and the actions taken. Our dispatchers are exposed to a variety of emotions from emergency calls. Remaining poised and calm ensures our dispatchers control the incident remotely until the arrival of emergency personnel. Our department is collaborating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to provide unique training for our dispatchers, augmenting their standard certification training in recognition of their ‘virtual first on-scene’ jobs. The course will include classroom instruction, case studies, and role-play exercises. BPD will host and the FBI will teach the two day course in BPD’s classroom. The course is open to other agencies in the state of Maine. August 1, 2016
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Many Biddeford residents continue to be victims of various scams. The scamming culprits constantly refresh and tweak their basic approaches. They often obtain public information related to their targeted victims (recent deaths in families, family members arrested, ages, et cetera) to give their scams that slight element of fact which they hope will hook their victim; similar to the hooking approach used by the telephone psychics of the 1990s.
Scam Alerts for August 2016 PLEASE STAY ALERT FOR SCAMS! Do you have a sign for a home security system in your yard? Then be wary of this summer scam. Fraud- sters will hire college students to troll through neighborhoods looking for houses with security system signs in their yards. The student will tell the homeowner the security company is going out of business, and the stu- dent’s “company” is taking over the account. The homeowner is told she has to buy new equipment and sign a new contract. Only the equipment is fake and the homeowner is paying for a service she isn’t receiving. If you get this kind of visit, check first with your home security company. Better yet, don’t do business with someone who comes unsolicited to your home.
How many of us remember when our magazine subscriptions are up for renewal? Most people can’t, and that’s where scammers step in. They are sending very realistic subscription renewal notices, typically offering a steep discount for renewing by a certain date. The subscriber sends in the money to renew the magazine, all for not. If you are unsure about when your subscriptions expire, you can find the date on the mailing label on your magazine. If you get a renewal notice you’re unsure of, contact the publisher directly.
Connecting to the Internet in a public space like a coffee shop, the library or an airport is a wonderful modern convenience, but it comes with significant risk. Fraudsters have come up with a number of ways to steal information from you or attack your computer while you are on public Wi-Fi. It is never safe to assume any privacy on public Wi-Fi, even when prompted for a password. Keep your surfing safe when on public Wi -Fi by sticking to things like reading the news and checking the weather. In short, never do anything on public Wi-Fi that requires a password.
The IRS scam has a new twist. A scammer will call, claiming to be from the IRS and that you will be arrest- ed if you don’t pay back taxes immediately. The caller will tell you to buy an iTunes gift card and put the amount you owe on it. Then you are to call back and provide the 16-digit code that is on the card to complete your payment. The con artist then sells the codes on the online black market and pockets the cash. Know that the IRS only accepts checks, cash and credit cards as forms of payment. And Apple sells iTunes gift cards solely for purchases on the iTunes store and the app store. If you are not shopping on the iTunes or app stores, you should not be using an iTunes gift card. Planning an interstate move? Beware of rogue movers who may take your goods hostage and over- charge you. The bad players typically give you a low estimate over the phone or online without ever seeing the items you want moved. Once your belongings are on their truck, they demand more money. They force you to pay more if you want your goods back. Research movers before hiring anyone, and always get a written estimate. The federal government and legitimate moving companies are working together to fight interstate moving fraud. Go to www.protectyourmove.org for a helpful checklist and to learn more. Be a fraud fighter! If you can spot a scam, you can stop a scam. Please report scams to the Biddeford Police Department at 282-5127 or come to the station at 39 Alfred Street. You can contact the AARP Fraud Watch Network at www.aarp.org/fraudwatchnetwork for more information on fraud prevention. August 1, 2016
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A LOOK INTO OUR PAST
Back Row Joseph Biladeau, Honore Dutremble, Louis N. Gendron, Henry B. Murphy, Noe Roberge, Uiric Cabana, Dwight B. Richards
Middle Row Laurence Remillar, Thomas Reilly, An- toine Credit, Michael Regan, Ralph Hight, Albert Roy, George N. Villandry, Archie La Branche
Front Row Oscar G. Parent, Chief of Police; George E. Beauchesne, Police Commis- sioner; Amede Hamel, Police Commis- sioner; Dr. David E. Dolloff, Police Commissioner; Ralph Jellerson, Captain
Offenses In 1929 # % of ∑ Intoxication 97 34.5% During the budget process for 1929, Chief Parent Juvenile offenses 71 25.3% requested a budget totaling $26,000.00 for the Assault 17 6.0% Biddeford Police Department. However, the Operating vehicle without proper lights 15 5.3% Larceny 11 3.9% Biddeford City Council appropriated $24,000.00. Driving without a license 9 3.2% When fiscal year 1929 ended, Biddeford’s Police Operating under the influence of liquor 9 3.2% Breaking and entering 6 2.1% Department had spent $26,131.64 and it received Red Light Violation 6 2.1% funds totaling $2,134.83. Thus, the department’s Reckless driving 5 1.8% net expenditures totaled $23,996.81 or $3.19 Tramps and vagrants 5 1.8% Parking violations 4 1.4% below the annual budget. Gambling 3 1.1% The 1929 police department budget of $24,000 Loitering 3 1.1% Non-support of family 3 1.1% would be approximately $332,000 in 2016 dollars. Adultery 2 0.7% Affray 2 0.7% Unlawful possession 2 0.7% OTHER 1929 STATISTICS Departing the scene of an accident without reporting 1 0.4% Car Crashes 397 Extreme punishment of minor 1 0.4% Persons Injured in Crashes and Sent to Hospital 75 Forgery 1 0.4% Persons killed in Crashes 6 Fornication 1 0.4% Business Doors Found Open 219 Illegel possession 1 0.4% Malicious mischief 1 0.4% Cars Stolen 11 Pool room open In violation of ordinance 1 0.4% Cars Recovered 11 Rape 1 0.4% Cars Recovered For Other Cities 3 Speeding 1 0.4% Number of People Lodged at police station 660 U-turn at a red light 1 0.4% Willful obstruction of a public way 1 0.4% Total Offenses 281 100.0% August 1, 2016
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Our Continued Efforts in Community Policing The Community Policing model was adopted by the BPD in the early 1990’s and has been continually evolving and improving as our city continues to grow and as issues in our community change and the demand for police services becomes more varied and increasingly complex. We have implemented key elements of the strategy as part of our constant evaluation process in the development of new organizational approaches. Some of these includes the active use of community partnerships and collaborations, and use of problem solving techniques to proactively address social challenges, crime, and the perception of (or at least the fear of) crime in a community. Community policing starts with a very basic understanding that police agencies rarely solve public safety problems alone; it is truly a community effort, one that involves the whole community. The Street Crimes Unit (SCU), which was launched in late 2014, is one of the basic elements of this overall strategy. The unit was established to proactively develop solutions to quality of life issues in our community rather than focusing solely on efforts of responding to crime after it occurs. Our Street Crimes Unit’s goal is to ferret out the problematic street level issues and bad actors before criminal activity results in an adverse impact on our community. From its inception, our SCU has been extremely effective in its proactive approach but represents a small segment of our department; making a big difference but not big enough. The desired outcome of our efforts is to be an agency which is not compartmentalized into specialties but rather, one in which our officers and employees can handle multiple responsibilities, collaborate well with their peers and form external partner- ships with agencies to solving problems, and to be better equipped to effectively deal with the wide array of quality of life issues that our community faces on an ongoing basis. As a matter of practice, our officers and dispatchers complete ongoing specified training and education in order to achieve and then to maintain their respective state certifications. Increasing an agency’s commitment to community policing requires an augmentation of the required training with a greater level of education and training into new areas or go into greater depth of existing ones. The expanded training goal is to increase our department’s overall abilities and skill levels to ensure all our resources are capable of proactively addressing quality-of-life issues as standard operating practice; ensuring that the proactive role is department wide and not just utilized by a segment of our personnel. For example, BPD started a new program which educates officers on the best practices for ‘effective Police and Youth interactions’. This training is provided by Strategies-For-Youth of Cambridge, MA. Our dispatchers will soon be attending a sixteen hour Crisis Negotiation Course instructed by staff from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. BPD has also launched its initiative to become an accredited agency by CALEA (The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement); one of very few in Maine to do so. Making the changes and improvements to our policies, standard operating procedures, and directives will ensure our agency is continuously operating with best practices. An accredited agency demonstrates that best practices are its way of life. This ultimately will reduce or eliminate variation in a department and provide a consistent approach to its community. By maintaining accreditation through CALEA, a department ensures that it stays on top of its game. CALEA certification and the principles of community policing require strong communications and transparency with the community. Over the last eighteen months, we began sharing more data and information and data by publishing our annual report, frequent newsletters, and daily patrol notes. For our community to help us solve public safety challenges it must know more about what we are doing and what is occurring in our community. August 1, 2016
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Our Continued Efforts in Community Policing - con’t There are many components and facets which must be adapted and others adopted for an agency to truly declare that its approach is community policing. We will continue to share more about our direction and our results. However, the one facet that will never change is the need to reach out and engage our community in none-incident settings. Although this engagement must include persons of all ages, our primary focus needs to be with our community’s youth; establishing a strong relationship based on trust, understanding, and com- munication. Again, community policing starts with the recognition that public safety is a whole community effort.
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BIDDEFORD PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER A Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)
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BIDDEFORD PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER A Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)
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NARCAN ADMINISTERED
Narcan™ (naloxone) is an opiate antidote. Opioids include heroin and prescription pain pills like morphine, codeine, oxycodone, methadone and Vicodin. When a person is overdosing on an opioid, breathing can slow down or stop and it can be hard to wake them from this state. Narcan™ (naloxone) is a prescription medicine that blocks the effects of opioids and reverses an overdose. It cannot be used to get a person high. If given to a person who has not taken opioids, it will not have any effect on him or her, since there is no opioid overdose to reverse. August 1, 2016
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June 2016 STATISTICS JUNE 2016 - ALL FIRE AND EMS CALLS EMS CALL RESCUE ONLY TRANSPORT TO HOSPITAL 148 33.6% EMS CALL RESCUE / ENGINE TRANSPORT TO HOSPITAL 87 19.8% EMS CALL RESCUE ONLY NO TRANSPORT 47 10.7% EMS TRANSPORT SMHC TO A MEDICAL FACILITY 28 6.4% EMS CALL RESCUE / ENGINE NO TRANSPORT 19 4.3% MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH WITHOUT INJURY 14 3.2% MASTER / SUPERVISED BOX PULLS / SMOKES 8 1.8% MASTER/SUPERVISED BOX WATER FLOW 8 1.8% MULCH FIRE 7 1.6% PULLS/SMOKE DETECTOR ACTIVATION RESIDENTIAL 7 1.6% TREES OR WIRES DOWN / ARCING 7 1.6% CANCELLED ENROUTE MUTUAL/AUTO AID STRUCT FIRE 6 1.4% ASSIST PUBLIC 4 0.9% FALSE ALARM MASTER / SUPERVISED BOX MALFUNCTION 4 0.9% FIRE IN OR ON A BUILDING 4 0.9% HAZMAT (MINOR) (GAS OR OIL SPILL) 4 0.9% PROVIDE MUTUAL AID NON STRUCTURE FIRE 4 0.9% ASSIST POLICE OR OTHER AGENCY 3 0.7% FALSE CALL-GOOD INTENT 3 0.7% MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH WITH INJURY 3 0.7% UNPERMITTED BURN 3 0.7% CANCELLED ENROUTE 2 0.5% CARBONE MONOXIDE 2 0.5% INSIDE SMOKE OR ORDOR INVESTIGATION 2 0.5% LOCK OUT VEHICLE OR STRUCTURE 2 0.5% RESIDENTIAL ALARM MALFUNCTION 2 0.5% VEHICLE FIRE 2 0.5% CARBON MONOXIDE ALARM MALFUNCTION 1 0.2% CITIZEN COMPLAINT 1 0.2% CHECK ON PERMITTED BURN 1 0.2% ELECTRICAL PROBLEM 1 0.2% HAZARDOUS CONDITIION 1 0.2% MARINE CALL 1 0.2% MASTER/SUPERVISED BOX TAMPER OR TROUBLE 1 0.2% OUTSIDE SMOKE OR ODER INVESTIGATION 1 0.2% RECEIVE MUTUAL AID FOR EMS CALL 1 0.2% WATER RESCUE / PERSON IN THE WATER 1 0.2% TOTAL 440 100.0% August 1, 2016
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