Good evening, everyone, can y'all hear me?
Good, good.
Appreciate everybody coming out this evening.
I'm chief to one person, a city of police department.
With me this evening, I have acting deputy chief, Robert Liverotic.
In the back, I have acting captain, John Knock, a corporate data revenue,
Lieutenant Sean Swartz.
And many of my staff have my public information, especially as Andre Jones,
as well. So the purpose of this meeting is for me to provide first and update to the residents
here in the city of Booey. And represented a non-contact officer involved shooting that we had
on September 12th. We also had a weekly schedule community matters meeting that just happened
to coincide with this night, because every month, if you don't know, since January, I hold a community
matters meeting on the fourth Wednesday of every single month. So this meeting was already previously
schedule, but I think it's important to provide an update to the community as
released to where we are with the investigation and also the process that
is being followed. So I will read the statement that I issue on Monday for those that
may not have seen it when it's posted. And after that, a presentation will go
through and take a few questions. We'll take a break at that point and then we
we'll get back into the readily scheduled community matters meeting.
I'm also want to acknowledge our Principal Deputy
to our Honourable State to turn out
as your brave boys, Jason Abbott,
is here with us this evening as well,
so I appreciate his attendance.
So I'm going to read the statement that I post it Monday.
So it says Dear Booi Community Members,
as part of my commitment to transparency,
I am providing an update to our initial press release
regarding the incident involving a buoy police officer on
Collington Road, Maryland, 1997, and out eastbound John Hanson Highway,
U.S. through 50, on the morning of September 12th, 2024.
Sergeant Robert Warrington, a 12-year veteran of the city of
buoy police department, was on patrol in the area and stopped to assist with
what he thought was a driver stranded on the left shoulder of Collington Road.
As Sergeant Warranton walked toward the vehicle, a man approached Sergeant Warranton coming
from the opposite side of the street across the medium.
During a brief discussion, the man walked past Sergeant Warranton heading toward the passenger
side of the vehicle, for reasons that remain under investigation, Sergeant Warranton fired
one round from his service weapon.
No one was injured, but another vehicle driving by was struck.
I know there are a lot of questions, still about what occurred, in the spirit of transparency,
although no one was physically hurt.
We want to assure the buoy community that we take this matter very seriously.
An active independent investigation is being conducted by the Prince George's County Police
Department, especially when investigated response team.
This investigated was initiated immediately after the incident.
Sir, will present their findings directly to the Space Attorney's Office, who will decide
if criminal charges should be pursued.
The incident was recorded on both the N-Car camera and Sergeant Warren to his body-worn
camera.
After consultation with the Space Attorney's Office, the Boy Police Department will release
this video to the public once the independent investigation has been concluded.
Sergeant Martin is on pay the administrative leave, the Maryland Police Accountability Act
of 2021, established statewide requirements for police accountability and discipline to ensure
consistency and uniformity throughout the state in these types of situations.
The first step being conducted now is a thorough criminal investigation.
After the investigation, this case will also be reviewed by the Prince George's County
citizens on the administrative charging committee. And those people have been pointed
by the county executive, Angela also works, which will make any disciplinary recommendations
based on the statewide police disciplinary matrix. I committed to transparency, keeping
you informed, and ensuring a thorough and objective investigation. And what I go on to say is,
I will discuss this at the next community matters meeting with just tonight of September 25,
of 6 to 8 p.m. down here in the chambers.
I want to acknowledge how Mayor Tim Adams,
who just came in this evening, as well as Councilwoman
Wanda Rogers.
I appreciate you all's attendance here this evening.
So what I want to discuss this evening is we're going
to go through where we are as it relates
to the Criminal Investigation process and the administrative
investigation that will ensue after that.
The rest of the agenda is talking about the community matters,
normal agenda, that we will discuss after, you know,
I get through that process.
So where we are now, this independent investigation is being conducted
by the French Affairs County Police Department,
13, that process is ongoing.
Once that is completed, that would be passed on to the State
to Attorney's Office for Action on their part
to make a determination whether or not criminal charges
will be pursued or not.
Okay, so we don't have a timeframe when that's going to complete it at this point, so but once we have that information,
I'm sure that that's information will be shared by the State's Attorney's Office at that point.
And this is just a visual depiction of from the incident.
So the shooting incident occurred, it was passed along to the 13th for investigation.
It goes to the State's Attorney's Office.
It may go to the Grand jury who may issue an indictment or decide not to file charges.
So that is the process on the criminal side.
The administrative process was established by the Police Accountability Act of 2021.
Okay, so that law went to effect in 2021 and the establishment.
The PAD is also known as the Police Accountability Board, which oversees the administrative
budget committee. And then that process will be, you know, from the PAB oversight. Once we complete
the investigation on this case, the Prince Joseph County Police Department completes the investigation
will be submitted to the administrative charging committee of two determining of finally.
And I'll get into more details in the slides. We'll numerate that later.
So the law establishes
that each county in the state and Maryland shall have a police accountability board.
They employ civilian members to charge in committees and trial boards.
And these are people that are appointed by the executive, you know, and that's how those
people are selected.
They receive complaints to police, misconduct, filed by members of the public.
And on a quarterly basis, review outcomes of disciplinary matters considered by charging committees.
Each county show have one administrative charging committee to serve county-wide law enforcement
agencies and local law enforcement agencies within the county.
So the administrative charge and committee for Prince George's county, all police departments
and all municipalities and locations within Prince George's county are under the authority
of the administrative charge and committee and the police accountability board for Prince
George's county.
So there's no separate board.
So whether it's Prince George's county, police department, green bell, police, police, we all
submit our cases to that's one governing board.
A county administrative charge and committee shall be composed of the chair of the county police accountability board or another member of the county accountability board designated by the chair of the accountability board before serving as a member of an administrative charging committee an individual shall receive training or all matters related relating to police procedures for the Maryland police training and standards commission and the Maryland police and training standards commission.
They oversee certification of all police officers in the state of Maryland.
On completion of a investigation of a complaint made by a member of the public against
a police officer, the law enforcement agency shall forward to the appropriate administrative
charging committee, the investigatory files for the matter.
So what happens is individual departments, that in this case, but in a normal case if it was
just a police misconduct case or allegation, we conduct the investigation in terms of conducting
the interviews of the officers and come up with a determination of findings of fact.
That would then be forwarded to the administrative charging committee who were reviewed
that for completeness and objectivity, and then they will come up with a determination and I'll
get into this in later slides. A weather and night, that case is sustained, meaning that the officer
has found to be involved or guilty of that particular action and make recommendations of discipline.
that would get me coming back to me as the chief of police to take a
machine on. And that's explained further in some of the next slides.
The committee can request information or action from a law enforcement agency
that conducted the investigation including requiring additional deep
investigation and the issuance of subpoenas that the police officer is not
administrative recharge. They will make a determination that the allegations
against the police officer are either unfounded, exonerated, administrative
charge on that administrative charge. Those are the findings. They record and writing any
failure of supervision and cost or contributed to a police officer's misconduct. So while the
conduct may not be something in terms of becomes a violation, but if it's a training standard
or something like that, we need to improve upon the make recommendations that we were didn't
cooperate into our training standards to improve upon the performance in the future. The
Maryland Police, Trady, and Standards Commission shall develop and adopt by regulation, a model
uniform disciplinary matrix for use by each law enforcement agency in the state.
So consistency in terms of discipline that is levied is consistent across the state, because
that's been mandated by the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission, and that
is consistent across the state.
Each law enforcement agency shall adopt the uniform state disciplinary matrix.
With them 15 days after the administrative charging committee issues in the administrative charge against the police officer,
the chief for the law enforcement agency, that should be me, shall offer a discipline to the police officer
who has been a administratively charged in accordance with the disciplinary matrix.
The chief may offer the same discipline that was recommended by the administrative charging committee
or a higher degree of discipline with the implicable range of the disciplinary matrix,
but may not deviate blow the discipline recommended by the administrative charge committee.
So what that means is whatever they come back with in terms of the discipline is recommended.
I can even offer that, or I can raise it, but I cannot go below what was recommended.
If the police officer accepts the chief officer of discipline,
then offer offer discipline shall be imposed.
If the police officer does not accept the officer's offer discipline,
then the matter shall be referred to a trial board.
Each law enforcement agency shall establish a trial law board process to adjudicate matters
for which a police officer is subject to discipline.
The trial board shall be composed of and actively and actively serving or retired administrative law judge
or a retired judge of the district court or a circuit court.
A pointed by the chief executive officer of the county, so here, that's the county executive.
A civilian who is not a member of an administrative charging committee appointed by the county's police accountability board.
So it's a three person board.
What I just read is the second person that will be on that board.
And then the third person that will serve on that board is a police officer of equal rank to the police officer,
who is accused of misconduct appointed by the head of the law enforcement agency.
So I will be able to select an officer of equal rank to be able to serve on that trial board.
A chief or chief doesn't need me to suspend the police officer without pay and suspend the police officer's police powers.
On an emergency basis, if the police officer is charged with a disqualifying crime as defined in 5-1-1 of this article.
You all have access to the full police accountability law, so you can read it up.
These are only excerpts that I've poured out for the purpose of this meeting.
I'm Mr. Meadig, Mr. Meadig and the performance of duties as a police officer or a
Mr. Meadig involving dishonesty, fraud, theft, or misrepresentation.
A police officer who was suspended without pay under the subsection is entitled to receive
back pay, yet the police officer has found that guilty of the criminal charge, your charges
on which the suspension was based, criminal charges, or against the police officer result
and a finding them not guilty or quit or dismissal or it's not a process.
So if we do suspend an officer with our pay and then they're found not guilty
then they're entitled to backpacks.
The Chiefs' shout terminate the employment of a police officer was convicted of a felony.
The Chief may terminate the employment of a police officer who receives a probation
before judgment for a felony or is convicted of a misdemeanor committed in the performance
of duties as a police officer, a misdemeanor related to domestic violence, misdemeanor second
degrees of assault or misdemeanor involvement dishonesty for all staff or misrepresentation.
Okay. If you want to like to scan the QR code, this takes you directly to the full police
accountability legislation, it's quite lengthy and it deals with many more things than just
the police accountability board. But the information that I shared this evening came from that
as again that I said was passed by the legislature and enacted in 2021 so that lays out
the both the criminal and administrative processes to where we are. I think it's important
that our community is aware of the process that we abide by and that's in all cases of discipline.
So it's not just an instances of officer involved shootings. There's not always a criminal investigation
obviously, but any matter of any complaint filed by a citizen against the police officer
follows this administrative charging committee process.
So, what I like to do is to take a couple of questions from the community.
Just be mindful that, as I stated, this case is related also involved shooting still in the investigation.
So any specific questions about the status of the investigation, I would not be able to answer this evening.
But if you have any questions about the process, I'd be more than happy to answer.
But just one question might, my main question in concern is that no one has said anything about any other type of weapon there, and I don't know if you're going to talk about that or not, but that is very concerning to me that if there was no other weapon, then you can't make necessarily go into all of that, but I think the community has no right to know if there was any other type of weapon around the world.
I see. Sure. And again, that is a matter that is being investigated. It's not appropriate
for me to comment on that at this time. But that is something that once we're able to
in the investigation is concluded, we make sure that we can provide updates at that point in time.
Sir, the question I have is, as it relates to policy, what is the policy for police officers
to unhose their service weapon and point it anywhere?
So the policy is based upon an officer's determination of a threat.
And so there's no black or white policy to say,
when an officer should unhose their weapon and display.
So it's based upon rigorous training that we go through,
but at the end of the day it's about the officer's assessment of what they consider a threat
that elevates to that level to make the determination
of whether or not that level of force.
And it's the same thing with any level of force
that we utilize.
So whether it's something that's less than lethal,
whether it's deadly force,
it's still something based upon the officer's assessment
of the situation and what's appropriate.
I understand.
And I know that the news has covered this.
And I guess the person involved in this whole situation,
he was there given an account of it.
So again, to the front of this question earlier, was there, I mean, I know you guys have seen it, was there a credible threat to have to do that?
Yeah, we come in on the physical events of what occurred, that's what's on their investigation.
That's what I read in my statement, what I'm asking this community is patients, you know, a lot of the investigative process to play itself out.
And then what we want to do is to make sure, at the end of the day, that the integrity of the investigation is the paramount thing that he's doing right here.
And we want to make sure that that is right for all parties that are involved.
And so we don't want to do anything by sharing any information or making any statements that
may jeopardize that investigative process.
So that's where I'm asking if those that are here and I don't know if I have any graduates
of our citizens' police academy class, you know, they will recall that we discuss these
things in the academy class.
This is what I talk about and I talk about this process.
There's not a lot that I could say is the chief of police, you know, and I know it's a common phrase that many people here in many chiefs say it's on the investigation.
We say that for a reason because we don't want to jeopardize the process.
We realize the sensitivities and the things that have happened throughout this country.
We realize the fact that the community in many cases may not have trust and law enforcement to be a full disclosure.
Okay, but one of the things that you know I've been committed to this community, the men and women of this
Police Department committed to this community and what I'm asking is for your trust and a lot of process to work itself through
It is a totally objective independent investigation. That's why we ask and outside agencies to conduct it
We will trust the process and the fine use of that
Just you had you have said that this man walked past his arms apart during your brief discussion and then that one
was fired, can you elaborate at all what was said or what to place during that conversation?
Not at all.
And you tell us at least how long it was, breathe a couple seconds, a couple minutes?
It was brief, but that's all I could say.
That conversation after that is what the show's fired.
Again, those are all matters that are on the investigation.
That's the principle point of investigation of what occurred and that interaction.
That information that is currently on the investigation.
And to his point earlier is that there's no lack of white policy that it comes to an
obstacle, a lot of service weapon. In this case, based on what he knows of art, was there
a critical threat for him to blow out his weapon?
I'm not going to render my opinion. This is those are matters that are on their investigation and the
conclusions will. That will be reached will be based upon facts and evidence that are
uncovered in their investigation.
You know what I'm saying, you know, I'm from Louis, I got a state championship at Louis
High School, you know, my parents got a house building over with, you know,
my father
planted, you know, his CDs here, establishes Bruce and I've done the same thing.
I had five school children, I was on my way on 1997 and I had to get to, I know what was
going on, why did she text me? It said, hey, something going on on my name is seven, like
I leave out my house 30 minutes earlier.
I want that road that fully could potentially get
Jonah, Malay, Noelle, Noelle, Noelle, or Marseille.
And so, you know, as, you know, we want to trust
that we want to trust the police department.
We really do, y'all who we call when we, you know,
when we have issues, you know what I'm saying?
But at the same time, you know, you ask,
and as the trust you, but you got to know it's a volunteer.
Well, what I would say to you is this, sir,
is that, and I want the community to understand.
Please don't define this police department one, one, one, one, action, and one, I.
We have been faithful to this community.
I've been here going on 14 years, okay.
If you've been involved with this police department, you know how much we serve this community.
When I want to point back to the fact that, let's go back to the original, the way the
decision is started is, you know, I don't want to take it from the fact that I know it
gets lost in what occurred at the end.
But I understand the sergeant warned him stop to serve.
He stopped to help what he thought was a stranded motorist.
That is what this police department does day in and day out.
So I want our community to understand and we hear the serve of this community.
And even since the incident and before this, that is what we do.
So, trust the process, a lot of investigation process to play out.
There's only thing I can ask for the community's patience.
But, you know, judges are one of the things that we do day in and day out because that is something that the
women at this piece of money have earned on every single call for service.
We run over 32,000 calls a year, okay, and the number of incidents that we end up having
use of force incidents are the percentage of that is very low.
All of that information can be found that we go to our website, all I answer reports are there.
It lays out all of that information in terms of use of force quite frankly, you know,
this police department we do far more discipline internally than we even get external complaints from
residents. So that shows that our supervisors hold our officers accountable to our policies and
procedures. We have a high standard of expectation of how our officers serve our community. That's very
important to me. It's very important to our council. It's important to you all as residents. We are
the bomb at a hit of 30's, heard serve our residents.
I miss the gentleman this thing, because I too live, I live right off from 1997.
I was actually headed to work, and I passed by the incident.
Is there going to be, either you can discuss it now, or after investigation, where there was a gentleman
being picked up off the ground by two offices?
Would that be disclosed to, or why he was on the ground?
Is that when after the shot fight?
Because if so, I was there seconds after fire,
I think could have hit me as well.
Again, I'm not going to comment
of the parties that were involved in the incident.
Autos parties are being, they are part of the investigation.
The investigators are speaking to everyone that's involved
in this incident.
And once that is concluded, as I mentioned,
in the presentation, all the information
should be submitted to the Proper Chatels first to the State's Attorney's Office and then
administratively that process will be handled.
It has been released because the state of these have been charged from everything.
No criminal charges have been placed against him.
It can be also clarified by a Saudi party that thought it was an abandoned motorist.
Was there an abandoned motorist?
Was there just an abandoned motorist?
It was just an abandoned motorist.
It was an abandoned motorist.
That's the thing.
What we believe is that there is an association with their vehicle.
We noted that there were other occupants in that vehicle.
Also, we found out after the fact that we found out after the fact that the man in all this vehicle,
he was in the vehicle, or separate.
He was that in the vehicle at the time when Sergeant Anderson approached.
And so that's what was the nature of the encounter.
So that's what we're trying to investigate.
Any other questions?
Yes ma'am.
If it goes to trial, is the public allowed to be in the courtroom?
That determination is made by, you know, the judge of the overseeing of the case.
And I'm sure the consultation with the State's Attorney's Office,
Chase and I don't know if you want to address that at all.
The most part, yes.
Droughts are over there.
Any other questions?
Mr. Sir.
What is the policy for if a citizen accidentally discharges the weapon?
A citizen, I accidentally discharged.
Yeah, if I was changing my tire on the side of the room and I took my
car, I could still carry off and put it in my trunk and I accidentally
went off and I was hit somebody else's vehicle,
so I prepared a person without, you know,
so they're positive for it.
Seven of the process goes into, we look at intent,
we look at negligence, we look at all the different things to evaluate,
you know, the circumstances, so the investigation would be initiated to determine the circumstances
and based upon that, a very similar process would go on to play.
I get to go home and go back to work.
It depends.
So we, this routine that even involving citizens, there's many times that we investigate
crimes where we will consult the state's attorney's office to determine whether or not
charges are warranted.
So even involving the citizens, there are many times that the incident may happen that
charges may not be filed to a later date.
So it just depends on the complexity of the investigation and all of the factors that are involved in
the investigation.
Well,
any other questions for anyone?
I appreciate everyone coming out this evening for this update.
As I mentioned, we'll take a short break and then we'll jump into our community matter
There was already schedule, all right.
Thank you, everyone.
I don't want to go there, I don't want to go there, I don't want to go there.
But at least you can have something like that as well as a person who doesn't care about that.
And we've already talked about that.
Well, that's what we like to do.
Yeah.
We can carry it.
There.
Where?
There.
All right, everybody, we want to get
So, as I mentioned before, every single month since January, I hold a community matters
meeting, and a purpose of this meeting really to, well, I recognize that I have an
understanding of, you know, this piece of art, who I am, the men and women that serve
you know exactly how you're pleased to come up and operate.
So, you know, we gladly
change this venue, you know, it's both being a shadow broke. I usually like to do it
out in the community and we move it around, but due to the weather, I think it's cool.
That's the whole year, you know, here this evening. As I mentioned earlier, I think I'll
again our introduced the staff that's here this evening. I have a cheat-to-win
press and I am at the temperature temperature. I don't have any more. I don't
have any longer. I'm going to put it back on. I'm going to put it back on.
I have
acting Captain John, not in the back. Lieutenant Sean Sports. My investigative
Sergeant Anika Howard, Sergeant John McMaster was our Community Services Unit, and I also
have Ms. Kuper, who is the Director of Communications for the City of Bowie, and I have
Roger and John's who's in public information specialist. I don't think I missed any of my staff.
So, I don't think we had this lot, I mean, no, we took it out. So, usually I have a organization
of the chart is inside the power of point, but we're off the rise to have 67 sworn officers.
Okay, that sounds like a lot, but we realized that the city is nearly 50,000 residents,
60,000 residents, and over 20 square miles. And growing, I would say all of the developments
that are going on throughout the city, especially along the 301, and unfortunately,
our most mission. We have 10 vacancies. So, we all have the Ryze 67, but we're down 10. Okay? So,
generally, you know, what that amounts to is we generally have about four officers working
in the city at any given time in a patrol capacity because we have shifts. So officers,
obviously, get days off, we're covering 24 hours a day. We have other officers that are dedicated
to investigations and the community services. We have two school resource officers, one
signed to the main building at the U.S. School and one
assigned to the annex.
So we have other officers that are dedicated to other assignments,
not just patrol.
So I'll pause and say that if you have members of the community
or people that you know that interested in law enforcement,
this will be a best place to put them.
So they can protect you as residents and help us
to serve the community because we really need the officers
to make sure that we can provide the ample service that you all deserve.
So I want to talk a little bit about death from models because that's what we're dealing
with and we're fortunate that here in the city we don't have a lot of violent crime, which
is the fortunate thing.
The city of Louis is a very safe city contrary to some of the comments you may see on
social media.
We're not immune to crime, what I like to say all the time is that most of our suspects that
You can make crime here, are not from buoy.
They come from other communities because a lot of the residents here have nice things, nice
homes, nice vehicles, and things that are in sort.
And they come here to victimize our residents, so the residents of buoy, you know, we have
a very wonderful community, and we're working to keep those that are not part of this community
out of buoy.
All right, but death of models, if you looked at the news last year,
oh, no, sorry, I'll get them ahead of myself. So death of models, we've seen a spike.
What we're seeing from 2022, we had around 150, 160 death of models. In 2023,
And then I must fight to over 200.
Now.
When I talked about us having people that don't live here that are coming here and victimizing our residents, they come here and what they're doing is, you know, a lot of our residents, and I'm not victim-shaming and being accused of victim-shaming, I'm not, I'm just trying to educate our residents. A lot of our residents leave their doors on lock to their vehicles.
okay, any new valuables inside the vehicles. So you make yourself an easy target for those
that are coming here, vehicles unlocked, they go inside, still the items of value, and they
go in about their way. How many people have a vehicle here that has a key file with a push to start?
A lot of those. You will be surprised, you sit in the next slide. We've actually had people
the vehicles on a lot with key five and five and it actually is the vehicles installed, okay.
These are things that, and so our purpose is, again, it's not to shame people, you know,
our job is really to educate our residents so that we can together prevent these crimes from happening
being aware, and so you all as residents can look out for your neighbors, because who knows best,
what belongs in the community besides those that live there, okay.
What I want you to do is, and I say this every single meeting is that
Our job is to come and respond to your needs.
So you can't call us too much.
So if you see something that doesn't look right in your community,
it's okay if you turn out to be wrong.
It's okay.
It's our job to come figure it out.
If someone has a legitimate reason to be in your community,
we'll be turning that and then going about their work.
But if there's someone that is in your neighborhood
that's committing harm and shouldn't have be there,
we need to know about it so we can come and make sure
that we deal with that situation.
I talked about a motor vehicle theft, and 2022 we had a little more than 120 vehicle stolen
in the city.
But he's all annual numbers.
So in 2023, that number is fight to almost 240.
The main driver in that, and if you pay attention to social media, the TikTok challenges
with young people still in high-end days and keys, you'd remember that with the USB?
All right.
So that was something that hit all the French Georgia County.
We went out immune to that. The manufacturers came out with a fix. So if you have a Hyundai or a key vehicle
I mean you haven't gotten that software update, you know, my advice is to make sure you contact the dealership to make sure that that's installed in your vehicle
It makes it a lot more difficult for them to steal your vehicle. Okay, we've done some club giveaways and things to that
So I don't know if we have any plan here in the near future, but those are things we've also offered to make it a little more difficult for your vehicle to be stolen
One of the things in the current trends we've been seeing is that there's a new target on
infinity vehicles.
So again, the push to start, I suspect that getting pretty sophisticated, they were
able to buy one of the programming tools off the internet.
And so even if you have your vehicle secure with the key file, they're able to defeat that
and create another key file which is allowing them to still your vehicle.
So, our recommendation is that if you have a club or something like that, as an anti-death device,
our recommendation is that you would put that on your vehicle as a deterrent and make it
a little more difficult for them to be able to take your vehicle.
One of the other things that I have in it on my vehicle, so a lot of stuff that I share with you
all of the days that I do personally, okay?
Everyone know what the air tag is?
If you know the air tag is, so air tag is a little device, as you track by your apple
They make it full of the devices as well, you know, it can be put on anything. It's a real small
circular device. What I suggest people to do is buy an air tank. Put it inside your vehicle somewhere
discreetly in the event that your vehicle is stolen. You have control of it. It's not the police.
But if you were to respond, you could be able to pull it a real time and it's tracking your vehicle.
All right, that ace is greatly and being able to recover your vehicle.
We could communicate whether it's in another jurisdiction and try to get your vehicle back.
quickly as possible. If not, we also want to make
gap or ensure the person that stole your vehicle. But that's
something that I recommend that you do. You can buy them off
Amazon, Apple, stolen things to that sort. About $20 or $30
per hour, Apple tag. But there's something that I highly
recommend. I put them in my love. This when I try, I will
put them in everything. So it's just a tracking
type mechanism so that you can find your property.
So, okay. As I mentioned, we have a three from the
approach, you know, to education prevention and enforcement and education and prevention, we're
accomplishing that tonight.
That's what we've been doing all year, is we're trying to share with you all the trends
that we're seeing, we're asking for a cooperation to help us to prevent these crimes from
happening.
So my ask is obviously removing valuables from your vehicle, locking your doors, look
out for your neighbors, report things that are suspicious.
If I do one of those things, you help us.
We do enforcement, but I am going to be honest with you in that, because if our shortage is
in staffing, our first priority is responding to codes of service.
So when you call 911 on an on emergency number, that is our first priority is making sure that
we address those things first.
The proactive patrols are the things that we can do when we don't have to respond to
calls of service.
Okay?
city as I mentioned 20 square miles that pulls us a little thin at times, but our first priority
is to respond to calls for service.
How to request police service?
So obviously for emergencies, crimes that are in progress, if it's an emergency, like threatening
or someone actively engaged in some kind of crime, I don't want you to hesitate.
We want you to call 911, okay?
911, there's one, 911, center, and all the principal's county.
It happens to be here in the city of Bui, okay, but it serves the entirety of Prince George's
County.
Some of you are may have heard or seen stories on the news about calling 911 and you
get a recording.
Is there anybody here?
If they have, so let me just kind of explain some of the circumstances that they're contributing
to that.
In this day and time, everyone has a cell phone, some of us have to, right?
So, let's say that we're all traveling down the Capitol Beltway or that we're 50, and the major traffic accident happens in front of that.
Well, everyone's driving by and we appreciate everyone being good residents and want to help.
It calls 911 to report the accident.
So it was one incident, but that one incident may generate 10, 15, 20 calls for service to 911.
That flows the system.
So, every single call that I want one has to be answered.
Okay?
If you get the recording, you get frustrated and hang up.
That is what they consider and I want one hang up.
They don't know if you had a true emergency.
If you weren't able to stay on the line.
So, that generates another call because they have to try to call you back.
So, that asks to the queue and listen.
Everyone is dealing with staffing challenges.
They only have a so many call takers.
So, sometimes the system gets overloaded.
So, what we did here in the city
So a year ago is we created a non-emergency communication center.
So we dispatch our own police officers here,
but what we also try to do is to alleviate some of those calls
for service according to the 911 center.
Because the say 911 center also handles
the count is non-emergency liner.
Okay, so if we can, like I say, we do with 32,000 calls for service.
So if we can direct both of those calls for service
that a non-emergency is here, that's taking a burden off of the 9-1-1 center, so that true
emergencies can be answered.
All right, that's what police fire and everything else, so it's not just police, the 9-1-1
sentence for police and fire, okay, and medical emergencies.
Our non-emergency number is 2-4-0-5-4-4-5-7-0-0, again 2-4-0-5-4-5-7-0-0.
So the non-emergency is that if it's not an emergency, if it's not a crime in progress,
The alphabet you wake up, some of my vandalized your car, or something like that, or yet lost property, we want you to call it an on emergency number, we're getting an officer out there to address your concern.
Now, I showed in the version of the night, obviously, because we had the added edition of the information that I addressed at the beginning of the meeting.
But the most important part of us getting together is really hearing from you all as the residents of Yucca Serbs.
That is why we exist.
We exist to make sure that we address Yucca Serbs.
And so in the only way that we can be effective in doing that is hearing from you so that we can make sure that we're able to discuss those things.
I have corporate data revenue here.
He's part of our community services unit.
They're more dedicated to addressing long-term issues and challenges that we have.
I was out of patrol, I'm out patrol officers take care of media things, but some problems that we have in the city are persisted and they require an extra level of expertise.
So we have a community services unit that are tasked with addressing those issues in concern.
So any questions for anyone, concerns?
Yes ma'am.
And so I had two questions.
I was saying that self-laid has her sanctioned into the city of booming.
But some of the services that the boozy citizens receive,
I guess they're not getting the police.
Does the boozy police department patrol with self-laid?
Yes.
1%.
Okay. You also mentioned that there's a resource officer at Boehasko.
My granddaughter, I'll attend to fully hospital,
she tells me about activity, especially in the pot smoking.
That goes on in the school.
Does the resource officer address any of that?
I would talk to him.
He was here tonight, but I would talk to him as see.
So we kind of work as a two-part system in a school system.
Obviously, we don't wear there to protect the students,
as well as the faculty.
We're not really there to police the school.
Okay, you have school security officers then that's their primary responsibility
So we like to defer to them and the teachers and administrators to handle things to happen within school, especially things that are considered to be
That serious Mr. Meena level
What we don't want is to the SRO is there to be a resource
You know for the students and the faculty not to really definitely be in a force and so, but he works in concert with the school security
That's something that I would suggest is you talk to the principal about him aware as well as the security staff aware as a current and then they can investigate that matter for but they keep the SRO in a loop as it relates to those occurrences as well.
What you can understand is that we are actually three SROs.
We have our ice-brain building on the other draft,
we call it an advance.
We have the main building with the 10th map of the 12th race,
all in and out in this row.
I'm going to float out between the buildings.
We don't tolerate smoking.
This is smoke-free city, you consider everything anyway.
But if it's a good time, we need attention, we do address it.
One of the problems we do have is the high school is kids.
We don't even know if they want to make the campus.
We do not know if they have to try to make sure they come back for their safety.
Before the neighborhood, you know, because if someone were to have to one of them,
why are they supposed to be in school?
And you think if they are in one of the buildings, and in that,
and if the imposes a great farm for us,
in a building they've got just about 3,000 students.
If we have school, it becomes a city within the city.
So, we go out last to keep everybody safe, and when it's brought to our attention, we do address.
That's that.
Do you have any questions?
I have a question.
Just a question.
So, almost speaking, before I address my concern,
or was that not concerned?
I wouldn't speak about something you said about staff.
But staff, what about staff?
Okay, about staff.
Safety staff, staff of 67, we do have 10 vacancies.
Yes, we do.
seven offices. Are there any plans to fill those vacancies and it's
seven enough offices for food and medicine? It's boring. It's
definitely really not a part of the 20 square miles. Are there any
efforts on any plans to expand the police department to one of these
Department? But you know, I'm 67. Excellent question. So the answer is yes,
we try to feel all the vacancies. And so let me start by saying
There's a nationwide challenge in short that she'll recruit in full law enforcement, okay?
I'm saying you can be safe for fire department, everything else.
Public service is not something that is as desirable as it once was, for whatever reasons.
Here, and first of all, there's counting alone.
And I didn't mention this earlier, several of us retired from Prince George's kind of police department.
I did deputy, captain, corporate amendment.
We all came from Brazil's capital.
They are down over 350 officers in Brazil's capital.
OK, I'm happy with my 10.
But I would say this is that we've attended
corporate amendment was that how university, yesterday,
for a job fair tomorrow, thank you at University of Maryland.
We're in New York next week, and Boeys State University as well, so we are actively recruiting the challenges and and one thing is is that you know, I don't sugarcoat a whole lot of different things
But there's a lot of information out here that's causing our young people to not be qualified for the police position of police officer and even though many have a desire to do so
You know, I'm be honest and I have no issue saying this. I'm not a big fan of the legalization of campus
for obviously Greece, obvious reasons.
It is still illegal federally, and in order to carry a firearm,
you cannot consume cannons.
And many of our young people will be asking questions.
They said, oh, we just legal.
It's not.
And so what you have to understand, not for the position of law enforcement,
and what's inside happening is they get this qualified.
So what we want to do is share with our residents, the things that are needed if you
interested in the position, talk to any of our officers about the requirements.
You leave it near your front door and I don't know if there's enough education going out there to let people know to also a low-cost measures to buy a fair day box and put your car keys into a box, so they can't sit in the signal as well.
I think I've mentioned something about that earlier about devices that could scale the signals and things.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you.
So yeah, I suggest all that.
I mean, listen, criminals are a very resourceful.
And this day in time, I think that we all have a division responsibility to make sure that we do all we care and secure everything to you.
What is your credit card, so what is your keyfabs, locking you doors, there are many,
many different things that we have, so, you know, I agree.
I had just two questions that I wanted to ask.
One by the way, it was also to say, thank you for the, we did get this steering wheel
lock from you all.
So, thank you for that campaign.
The one question about that, just curious, do you have any stats or data around in terms of the
around how successful the department is with finding,
doing this in arrests or and or getting property back,
and then a second question to piggyback off of the school question post,
do you have any input into what how the staff schools that
and students are trained in in terms of a violent critical incident at the school?
And what in terms of how students are to respond, how how they're trained,
What protocol did they use and trained staff to teach us with?
Do you all have input on that?
The second question.
I will direct, I actually direct that question to students.
School staff.
We don't really have any, again, these are print stores,
county schools.
So all that has mandated by print stores.
That's what it's just statistics related to
that one, stone and vehicles.
Properly crime.
There's so many people in the race, but that is very money.
Okay.
And that's we have, you know, suspect information, most time we dealt by the time you wake up in the next morning, you realize a crown is occurred.
There's no video, no man that is a silver building right, so very much.
Now, if batches at times, we're fortunate enough to catch someone in that, you know, maybe getting to pursue, catch someone in the act of it.
You know, that happens from time to time on that is frequently.
And, you know, we're limited also, you know, by policies and procedures, property clients we're not allowed to pursue.
So sometimes we'll get a vehicle that someone is actively tampering with step-stolen and may flee from one of our officers, but our officers are not allowed to pursue even if it's a stolen vehicle.
And so we have to terminate that pursuit and unfortunately, you know, that's a safety issue for, you know, residents and everyone involved, you know, it is a property.
And you can clarify what is the legal right of someone to smoke marijuana on a public street.
For example, or can you tell us what it means?
It's illegal.
So the legalization of cannabis, the only legal place for this smoke is inside of your residence.
All right?
Inside the full box.
That doesn't even mean on your property.
So back on your back deck, were you chillin'
to leave?
All right.
Inside your four walls, it's the only legal place
for you to smoke cannabis.
So you're in the back yard, salute.
If you're in front of your house, it's illegal.
If you're in your vehicles, it's illegal.
But it's decriminalized.
All right.
So it is not a criminal violation.
It is not something that you're gonna get arrested for.
It's a citation.
All right.
So it is decriminalized.
I want to give our communications director what's going to Cooper and opportunity to come up
to talk to you all about the ways that you obviously informed of things that are going on
on the ship.
Thank you everybody.
Good evening.
Thanks for being here.
I realize I am not the reason you can't twice on.
I'm going to give this a very, very, very brief.
I'm here to promote a work of the way which is our text that became now the learning system.
And we'll use it in emergency situations.
We also use it for traffic alerts to tell you what's going on in Louis, whether it's a service
entry or a school court event.
So I've been encouraging you if you have not signed up to do so you can do it tonight.
There are points out in the lobby and you can take one of these cards that I have here.
Take it with you.
You can scan the QR code.
However you want to do it, which is why you need to do it.
Can I just see a show at the end of the school?
How many people have it already?
Gold stars.
Okay.
I'm reaching the height of your, this is our thank you very much.
The communications director.
So alert, really, it's one of the ways we used to communicate.
The other is social media and that is really one of our most immediate and active ways
we communicate.
We also make sure everything we are communicating is on our website.
So I encourage you to check there for things.
We have a government channel, we do videos.
We do newsletters a weekly and a monthly one.
So, however, you know, we know different people get to a different way.
So we're trying to reach you all.
If you have any suggestions about how to reach you better.
And let me now act towards.
And then the last thing I'll say is,
and you're doing it about getting involved in staying involved with your community.
There's a variety of ways you can do that.
The city is 16 different volunteer committees on its all kinds of different subjects
and it's a great way to give back to your community to connect with your neighbors and other communities
within and going and also to learn about really the city from the inside a little bit.
You could also become a mentor of high school kids, we have a really great mentoring program
at the White High School in the Mentories Act, meet with the kids once a week, have lunch
with them, and really establish a bond through a whole school year and sometimes for multiple
school years.
We have a program called Neighbors, helping neighbors that helps people in need within the
communities.
We also have a green team, if you have kids that might be interesting in that law enforcement
keep them involved and engaged. So those are just some other ways you can get involved, but keeping
up to date with what's going on with the people, also, give you more ways to learn about that.
So thanks for the two minutes and we'll be out there as you haven't registered yet.
Thank you so much.
I want to now address this. We do a lot of community outreach programs that we offer.
Citizens, please, Karen, we have police explorers.
We do numerous community events, like Shopwater Cup,
a natural night out, things in that sort.
Cool, cool Janet Dollar, all we call it, the general.
She is the one that oversees all those programs.
And we have a couple of graduates as well,
that we do as a citizen.
It's probably one of the best programs I think
that we put on.
Here, if you are proceeding, it really, really gives you
an insight into the inner operations and the workings
of the police department.
We have questions about how you please
bummer out the race to policies, the procedures.
Some of the things we talked about earlier
in terms of laws for our own shooting,
a lot of those questions will actually be answered
by you going through the citizens academy.
And you actually get the experience, a lot of those different things.
We put you in a lot of similar situations,
and simulations, and things that are so
and you get the experience exactly.
So you kind of understand what it's like to be in the classroom.
And many of them go on to serve and help us
community of the service volunteers when we had a various community of
us that come part of our family so we couldn't do the mission that we did
without them. So I might as a couple of dollars have come up and talk about
those programs. Hi. Good evening everyone.
Good evening. All right. So I'm going to talk about some
what stuff. Okay. So I really like this so serious earlier, but now
I'm going to talk about community engagement. A little bit
different from what we talked about earlier. So I'm
more dollars with the community service team. This is my sergeant. So I know if the
department is known to do a lot of community engagement. All right, so that's what we do.
That's what our team does. So we have a common event. I know we talk about the census police
academy. I have actually a couple here that graduated from one of the sessions.
We are in the
We're going to schedule it around wonder, okay?
So if you, I know what we talked about,
probably you guys hear about transparency more than a few times
already tonight.
So we're going to offer that class around winter.
It actually show or in for our pretty much discuss
what, how we operate in daily basis,
what resources do we have, what do we investigate,
And we actually have not a lot of speakers coming from different agencies as well share the problem will be in the class on the problem of corrections
PG counted it that is will be in plus to just to give you guys a brief overview of what they do
Okay, you know some cases here that happens actually in moving
You know, PG counted still come and investigate that in some cases. All right, so if you're interested
and hit me up, or it's up to me after,
I'll give you my business card, so just to give you
like a quick overview, says his police academy,
so a third time we post, okay?
It's so long, okay, but it's not.
It's actually a lot of information every night.
So we have different instructors that come in every Tuesday.
So, okay, so it's from 6 to 9 p.m. here at City Hall.
When you up to 30 weeks to graduate and then you become our volunteers, all right, so that's if that's what we are going to
Guys, so every time we have a community engagement, we ask for help.
We can't do it alone. We guys, we can't use support. All right, so every time we have community engagement, we ask for volunteers if you guys can help us out
We really to be able to appreciate your health and on I know we have
actually the national
coffee with a cup day. That's going to be an October 2nd Wednesday. Starbucks at three
things. Okay, if you guys have any questions that weren't answered today or you didn't ask
if you forgot, we will be there at Starbucks, okay? It's from 10, 10 a.m. to talk, okay? That's
October 2nd. And October,
we have fatal news. So we're looking for 15 in need families,
that we're actually going to give groceries, so we're going to provide them some groceries
to kind of like help them a little bit, you know, we get our, we get our list from Bowie
Band 3, our youth family services and other schools, okay, that's our team for Bowie,
Peyton flew for this year. And then after that, we have Bowie White White. If you want
to register, it's actually an event right, those are for domestic prevention awareness.
And then we have, after that, we have,
oh yeah, sorry.
She'll have to stop.
Why?
That's a big thing.
She'll have to stop.
I need you guys for that.
All right.
I need you guys.
Because last year, we actually have 80 kids that we have.
So for those that we got that don't know,
We, this is actually a program for less fortunate families, okay?
And we can receive $100 gift card.
We'll take them to shopping.
You know, they're going to be with the office.
They will take them to shop around in Target,
over Walmart, wherever we decided to share.
And then we feed them, give them lunch,
and we have plenty activities for them to do that day.
And we actually provide them top of $100 gift card.
We keep them up by the voice, so really, if you guys have extra cash out there
We have something in the nation's suit, so if you need more information, it should be on our website soon
So it's what that is what we have something in a new toys and open if you get a home that have you do it some day don't want it
Please, you know, we have some donations with that as
well
We have mentoring program. I call them mentoring program.
So it's every Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m.
They get community service hours as well.
Every time we go to like community engagement,
they all, they would be.
Those kids that will earn y'all of these shirts, those are my scores.
They get community engagement as they actually get back to their community.
Okay, you know P.J. currently they require 24 hours of right to wait now those are the best opportunities to actually get the convenience service officers and they actually get to know us
Like the person behind this uniform. Okay, they're exposed to us
So that's a great opportunity for them to actually get the convenience of the service hours
I'll try to take back, he doesn't mean to have expired on pills or prescription drugs.
He's going to be knocked over 26.
That's Saturday from 10 to 2 years at the station.
So just bring your on drugs prescription drugs.
No questions, that's right.
No questions, that's not my problem.
No questions.
That's going to be knocked over 26 Saturday from 10 to 2 p.m.
And then after that, it's January 3, October 30, 30, yes, 30, yes, yes. So that's Wednesday. So we're actually looking for vendors, if you want to participate and have your card in your trunk, people may can these, you're more than welcome to join us. It's going to be at the group to move it down center. All right, and that's from 5 to 7, and I think that's all I have.
But if you have that, there are many questions.
I'm going to give you that.
So I invite a few glad to invite you to speak about their experience,
but it's in some of these academies.
The answer.
Are your volunteer opportunities,
limited to those that live in actual incorporated?
No, no, no.
Who are you going on?
Yep, we all got that.
Everybody.
Yep,
in the three.
Last
year of November 28th, 2013, there was a community forum on rise in Juvenile Primary.
There.
Do you want to fully stay?
Yes.
Very well with the people in the rooms.
It was extremely well attended and I was there from start to finish.
It was very crowdsourced on what does the community think or solutions for it.
And it was cross, multi-governal level, right?
What do you think are there in this short coming statute
that tire hands is the city police force that,
you know, maybe the county has, for example,
the National Grabs from retail stores,
in some municipalities or states,
they find that the threshold is so high,
people who are making a point of just stealing $50 under what the level is of what they can steal
so they have to raise it or they're age minimums that you're just not getting someone to.
So yeah, I appreciate the question. It changes a lot of positions we can.
So the state laws are the same for all of us whether it's the state, you know, the county level.
So we all enforce the same laws that exist, but, you know, we have a good strong work of relationship with our state center around this world, like Councilor Warren, Igor Watson, he was the one, and he worked here with him as the one that organized the event at Bowie State.
I noticed some of the issues surrounding some of the juvenile issues were addressed in the legislature, and those are things that have been well documented.
you know, some of you may have seen recently on the news, there was a young man who was
breaking into a lot of car dealerships of Montgomery County, was underage and it couldn't charge him.
Those are challenges that exist based upon a lot. So because he was under the age,
he could be criminally charged. So those are things that we continue to work with the legislature
to try to address. I know that even with retail, they have to try to aggregate all of those
and we can approve that they're responsible for multiple crimes, even in different jurisdictions.
They'll be able to aggregate the brain oss together to preem it and charge those persons.
So we can continue to work with the Senator on those issues and address those things,
but nothing specific other than that is already well known that we already work with.
Thank you.
Do you anticipate a rising problem after this election?
I don't know. I hope not. I hope not. We don't want to see rise in crime. We want to see, we want to see
that we gave because I gave it to a county and speak
and I want to make sure we address some of the missing
numbers with speed cameras.
So speed cameras don't cause the city money.
And so that really has, I'm sorry.
It goes really money.
Well, I can't.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
let me, let me say this about speed cameras.
And so we educate people on exactly of the threshold.
We don't have a got you program here.
We are fully, fully transparent.
Usually I break down and have every location,
the number of violations that exist.
We tell you where they are in advance.
We give it a have a rotation on October 1st.
I put it out 10 days in advance and tell you,
this is where we move the cameras.
So if you get a citation, shame on you.
Okay, so what I'm up with, what I'm going to be honest,
I'm in the way the real thing is that great majority
of not all of you all are residents, they live here in the city.
So I want to make sure and make it personal to you.
If you live on a residential street,
and you have small children or family members,
So you all like the walls.
Speed limit is 25 miles per hour, okay?
The camera law, you don't get a citation
so you're going to at least 12 miles per hour.
So can imagine your street,
so when coming down your street, doing, at that case,
to be 37 miles per hour, do you think that's excessive?
I do.
Okay.
So all I ask our residents to do is just slow down.
And you don't have to worry about getting a citation.
I was just trying to make one.
I'm just saying, but I mean, but I want everyone to fully understand the purpose of our
cameras.
Our cameras, the purpose is that it does cost a city money.
That's the goal.
And if it starts to cost a city money, that means that it's working.
Because that means the number of violations are coming down, that people are in compliance
and people are driving safer.
And in the day, we want safer roads here in the city.
It's not about making money, but those are things that we spend at the camera.
Only on residential streets.
So we had existing schools ons, but the law expanded to residential streets with a speed limit
is no greater than the 35 miles per hour, and so in all of those locations are based
upon complaints that we get, speed studies that we do, where we have chronic issues of
speed.
And that's how we determine those locations are where we deploy.
I mean, I mean, I'm in the MCH and I'm in the MCH and I'm in the MCH and I'm in the MCH
and I'm in the memory lane.
And people blow through the road all the time, but I put my basketball court out of the
in my kids plan on, and it deterres,
you know, because people see the best,
but we're always part of kids over here.
So, you know, I've been fine for leaving that out outside over night.
But is there something maybe I need to do to try
to get maybe a camera or a slowdown, you know,
come and through here.
For some, just having a great time on that.
So, if we have signs that are just deployed
by a part of the worst division, the slowdown signs.
But as a race or a speed camera,
you can send us a request.
We have a traffic management work group that
evaluates locations and that's how we determine.
So it's partnership between police department
public works to look at and evaluate locations.
There's a lot of factors to go in there.
I'm not going to have to bore you all with that to determine
whether the location meets the standards for a speed camera.
But those are things that we work toward.
But you can submit the request and we're going to evaluate and see
if it's conducive.
I know you sent out a list of where that they were going to be, if there was one on
Ken Hill and Stony Brook.
There all gone.
Yeah.
It was only a 30 day trial.
So they're all gone.
What we're doing now in next steps is we will evaluate the results of the information that
we were able to collect and determine to see how effective they were.
And that's something that, you know, we have a discussion with the city council about whether or not that's a
A resource that we would consider using in the future, but right now there was only a 30-day power program, but that's it.
That's exactly what you're talking about.
It's not like the fall of the world.
It's not like the point of rage and part of the park in turn.
Those people, they come through that stuff like it's not there.
I mean, they all day long.
And so I was happy to see that camera.
We've been going out there because it's a bunch of kids down here.
That's where they get on the bus, they go to school.
And he's still, you have the playground right here, all of that.
But they really do, they just go to the desktop time and I mean go through it.
You have a camera on there, but it's so far down, but it's time to get around to what that stop sign is.
They're flying again, so someone could just take a look at the location of that scammer.
Let's be Cameron that might open slow down enough to not go to that stop sound like well, and I'm gonna be honest
We're not gonna have enough speed camera. I think people complain. We got too many already
But what I would say is is that you know, they're effective where they're placed
Okay, is it gonna stop people from speeding?
We know people slow down with cameras and these feedback. We know that exists
What we're trying to do is encourage people to slow down and change their behaviors
Maybe this would be responsible within the city, you know, so that everyone is safe or so that's the goal of the program
That's what we would like to see
Any questions?
And yes, I'm sorry citizens can be graduates. I'll let you talk about the experience
Come on, now you might call us up here
Good evening
My name is Robin and I
I graduated from the Citizens Academy in 2015, I was in the very first class,
I think that if you have the opportunity to participate in the class, please participate, you learn all facets of policing, not only from the officers, but from the criminal justice members,
The classes are interactive and any of the discussions are on policing and you get to ask questions and just the participation is great.
Some of the classes just to let you know you get to visit the 911 call center.
You get to find out about evidence collection and what the CSI do, what the corners office does,
what SWAT does, and as was stated, it is a 13-week course and once you graduate, you do get to work with the officers as relates to the community.
I'm sure most of you have seen us at the tables, at various events helping out the officers.
So it's a wonderful course and please please if you get the opportunity to participate do participate and it's free
My name is Cynthia. I graduated class number nine. I think it was in
2020 or 2021
I came to the citizen academy because I was named to the city into the state of Maryland and I wanted to know more about city worst
Yeah, and so that's where it's in the eyes on the class and it is very informative
So it gives you the history of the city of Louis police how they form what the goals are
What they're trying to progress to and also builds that relationship for the community to the officer
It gives you that so instead of being a province of the community you're been a source or helpful to the community to have it grow
So as they as a city grows and you grow with the city
A lot of the things that they do talk about, they do have stuff for kids online, was one of the
things other services for the city, the county, the state has to offer for people that are in need.
They do have that as well.
And as she said, it's once you graduate, then you start helping out in various communities.
So if you like to help out and you like working with people, then this is an academy.
We'll be part of the group that you need to come and help with it to give back.
If you like giving back to your community.
because as the community grows and we get older then we need to teach our younger people about the community and keep it growing so our community can stay at its best.
The other part I'm going to talk about also works with the explorers.
So if you like having with kids and you can tolerate teenage kids and you have the patience for teenage kids, you need to come and have the explorers.
why I was looking for grown adults to help with them
because as you said it's a mentor, everybody can be a mentor.
So if you have that compassion for kids,
then come out on Thursday nights and help us with that.
Because they go through probably for seizures,
they go through how to recognize when they walk into a room,
if they're out with their friends,
kind of be a situation awareness and see what's going on.
I had to say no if someone is trying to convince them
to do drugs, or do wrong, or do a crime, then that builds their character up, but that.
Sorry, encourage you.
Citizen Academy, and then also the explorers to come out, can be a part of each of
the explorers.
Eight out of the explorers, she said it was 12 to 20.
14.
14 to 20?
Yes.
Come out.
And we always look upon volunteers.
And a citizen to Academy, you have to be an 18.
Yes.
Thank you, ladies.
Thank you.
I'm so happy to see you.
What?
Y'all get a glimpse of the, you know,
I don't just get up here and make statements on,
you know, these ladies are part of our family,
and all of them are joined with song.
And the bond and relationship, one of the things
that we talk about all the time is that,
and this is where we get real with those
that go to the City of Canterbury,
we all people just like the rest of you are.
We got families, we got children, you know,
we hurt, we have pains and sorrows just like everyone else.
And I think that as we develop a relationship,
and that's what we want to do,
is have that bond with our community.
because that's what's important.
We're part of this community.
We're not separate from the community.
And it's unfortunate that, you know,
we have to, you know,
talk about a critical incident that occurred.
And that's why I want to make sure, you know,
the point was made.
That does not define this, please.
What we do here tonight,
this is what the fire has to speak for.
This is what we spit out work done.
Day in and day in work hard for this.
All right, you all learn important to us as our residents.
So we look forward to working with you all coming out to your community events. We get invited to your community
days, we show up to those things. That is what we do. And so it's important. So if they don't know
I have a question, I appreciate everybody coming out this evening. Hope everybody has a safe trip
I call, again, call as it means, okay?
Make sure you take care of each other.
I'd be thank you.
You'll see me.