really tired of the twenty and thirty below zero stuff one of things i'd like to talk to you about today we just had a meeting this morning which today is the tenth of march on the concept of a new public safety complex in the town we know that this is years away but we have to start the planning phase for what a public safety complex and who is in it is a three department complex police fire rescue is it two separate complexes where they go you know what the where the townspeople want how do we pay for stuff like that you're probably going to see something come out of the slot board the next few weeks looking for some people that want input on this but the truth of the matter is this building where we are right now at least as office space is not conforming to what we need is a police agency and i'm sure in the past you've seen our single holding cell it's not a da compliant our evidence room is get some real issues and we have some real issues with storage of just our records and other equipment than we may have and anything that we see like a b ago which we've been doing quite a bit lately in applying for search warrants there is no secure compound for us other than begging from another agency to put it there for a day or two while we go apply for a search warrant so that's just in the beginning phase i don't want people to be shocked the townspeople voted on it town meeting a year ago to start the process and the process is now just getting started and we had our first meeting today so  said if you have an interest in that slug where we put in something out in the near future and and pro or con you know because both sides are we think feel free to engage with them and and tell us what you have to say or what you think another thing i'd like to bring we've had a couple calls lately rule mailboxes those of you which is most of you in town that have your mail delivered to your driveway or the enduro to wherever you happen to have your mailbox where we've got a couple calls and at this point we don't think there's anything to him of people think they're somebodies going through their mailbox after the mail delivered this has happened in the past where they're actually looking for your dedication where they can steal your  id and lot of times it is stuff that comes through the mail does have a lot of personal information in it i suggest and like i said i don't think there's anything to this i think probably just the mail man or woman didn't flip the boxes back up or whe n took them down with the kind of when we've been having lately check your credit ratings ok just everybody should do that at least once a year to make sure nothing's changed or changed dramatically but we do get calls identity theft calls we get them you know four five six times a year where they get people's personal information and then they basically buy things out of state or out a country sometimes on your i d and most of the time of it's through a credit card debit card and occasionally a checking account the banks are pretty good in the financial to share the catch and that but you know you are the best people you know what your credit rating should be and usually most of these three major credit rating companies at least once a year you can get a free one so please go check that and make sure everything is where it should be ok i don't think it's i don't think anything's come of these but just do that for your own sake since the last time we spoke we still have winter here and i know i harp on this every time we've investigated fifteen accidents as the last time we spoke likely nobody's been seriously hurt but i can tell you none of these accidents and we don't call them accidents anymore because they're not there or voidable their collisions the only time we can really have an accident when motor vehicles when the dog or the deer or the cow or the moose runs out his society or vehicle everything else is pretty much avoidable if you just slow down and drive for the road conditions because we still getting them so we've had fifteen reportable accidents since the last time we spoke and i can tell you that there it's going too fast for the conditions just still think they can do you know wherever speed limit may be and they can and i can tell you people are going to really get upset but most of the time now and the same thing would state police policy is of you get in that collision has because you're going too fast for the weather conditions you are more than likely to get a two hundred twenty dollar two point ticket for driving at a speed too fast for those conditions and that will hurt your insurance rate for most of you so just please slow down we did and actually there we've written one hundred forty five tickets and so last time we've talked we've actually written quite a few i didn't think there was that many out there cell phone violations and we kind of took a wait and see after the law took effect back in october but we're seeing people now you know i think when the law first took a fact they were pretty good you know put the cell phones down stop texting while they were driving but we're just seeing irrational now people as like they're right back to where they were before the law took in fact and the cell phones are up there we see them with their face down the driving down the road they're doing this you can you can see their taxes we're writing those tickets we're stopping those cars and we're writing we've written eight or nine in the last three days most of the people are for minors so they know and even the ones that are coming from out of state every border entry coming into this state as new signs up if it's a second offense or goes over three hundred dollars for a traffic ticket we've also had since we've been here we've we've had a couple the crazies come out we don't usually have high speed pursuits in town but we've had two we had one one of my officers officer naidu was sitting right here in bridge gate that's gone all saw minor traffic violation want to stop the car guy glad passing cars on the corners flooded east on route t main street well over one hundred miles an hour a fact cars he passed the witnesses placed him at over one hundred twenty miles an hour this gentleman didn't make it very far he got down to  control the car was going so fast crashed it they took off on foot we had to call in the canine from the state police and it was cold it was snowy and after searching the area the canine would start and i think probably closing in on him he actually called for help because when he fled the scene of course he was intoxicated and under suspension when he fled the scene he lost his boots when i was out in the woods in the dark in the snow w boots until his feet actually started to to the point they was even though he was drunk and could feel the pain and actually then gave himself up call for help and was taken into custody and we had to call rescue and have them checked and make sure he wasn't frostbitten and the young gentleman twenty's went to jail for the night then we had another one like two weeks later one of my officers the car up on his word rode down and i on those corners on canyon road on the ice the snow covered road in excess seventy miles an hour chased them all way down the route to one seventeen and we finally get in that summer street here again he was under suspension which means he was all the paperwork was done instead taken to jail the court now has a flashlight so he goes to court the next day and then his passenger did go to jail for a warrant so that gentleman idea to charge would attempting to a negligent operation criminal d l s we did not charge him with harboring a fugitive because his goal was trying to get to this house have his passenger get out before we could see it and hide so he wouldn't get arrested didn't work his passenger out and up going to jail that particular afternoon so it just you know these people don't think now he does it put us in danger it puts the public at danger puts themselves at do have made nine erast that's just a couple of them which entire entailed fourteen different criminal charges we were arrested three duis in that time and  two of these people were not local residents or traveling through people forget that you know we get a lot of commuter traffic as coming to and from someplace going to burlington or coming back from burlington we do get a fair amount of commuter traffic most of our duis that we do get are not local residents it's it's traffic that's just passing through we get a fair amount of them a route too but we do get a fair amount of them and both i think in road and iceberg road that  criminal you have to go you get arrested it goes in front of a judge it's not a traffic ticket couple rust on different warrants and we do ask for warrants back they just got facts one today  back we talked probably two or three episodes ago on a traffic stop we made where we went and got the search warrants and we ended up seizing three quarters of a pound of processed marijuana in the car we didn't get another quarter pound in some growing out of the property and the gentleman was a rain failed to show up so the officer is done the paperwork and they just fax me that and arrest warrant for him so it will be actively looking for him again and put him back where we think he belongs and some of the other things we've handled other than the the pursuits in the duis we've had some family issues this is where we become you know counselors and a lot of different hats that we end up wearing it gets sometimes it gets it's very difficult and one of the cases we handle it's a custody battle over two little kids and you know we have to end up you know that the parents who aren't together are fighting and we get called you do these things takes hours to to deal with because because the kids are under eighteen or under sixteen and these particular ones are infants and toddlers we have to call d c s the partly children and families to get them involved and it becomes a lengthy investigation and then we end up because we don't do civil most people don't realize that law enforcement doesn't do civil law we just don't we can't do it by statute so that's so we call in d c after him we end up being counselors trying to figure out what's going on write the report and then turned over to the department children families to make sure the kids are there in the right hands and then a lot of times what happens in this particular case and it ends up going in front of a judge the next day or the whatever the next business day is for the court to make a determination on where these children should be place sometimes at night working with d c s we have to make that call you know as one parent safer than another or do they go to grandparents or do they go and get seized basically the children and then we go could judge up or get one out of you know how somewhere and make a decision where these children will be placed to costly that's a tough call for police officers you know and we get called to that quite frequently and we have to try to make the best decision we can and call in the different resources that we we think we have to have but that's just kind of some of the things we deal with besides the drunks the drugs and things like that but outside of the weather and the accidents that we've been having it's been you know it's picking up again because the weather started to get a little nicer the roads are opening up we have the wrists you know so we rode one hundred forty some tickets we're seeing the speeds come back up i got one the other day seventy something miles an hour in cochran road at six o'clock in the morning i actually doing seventy one miles an hour by the horse farm or stables just no real reason to be going that fast and that little storm we got a couple days ago right the roads are all slu and snow covered and there's another one at sixty something miles an hour on cochran road i don't know what is people using cochran road for a short cut or get out of traffic or whatever they're doing but we seem to be right in quite a few violations lately on cochran road especially in the forty five zone where they're not doing forty five so gets back to and then we end up doing accidents and it's not a check off the box but an accident even a minor accident investigation your tiny officer up anywhere from an hour to two hours for a minor one just because of all the things you've got to fill out an accident report which some day i should probably bring one show you it's a four page form and you get really good you'd write you draw diagrams and take measurements and all that we don't normally do that now because the time unless there's injury or death you know we'll or a major case you know somebody's been charged with  or criminal d l s or you know something that they're going to go see a judge for that we go and do the diagrams and you know take measurements and all that kind of stuff because it's very time consuming takes us hours sometimes days sometimes we deal with for weeks we had one failed two years ago it was you know we probably spent a weekend in total you know just to figure out what really happened and we had one dead and one critically injured and six other people involved so just in doing interviews with passengers and witnesses and going to the hospital and trying to talk to survivors and it's a big time commitment so you see our cruisers we spend a fair amount of time on follow up because luckily believe it or not most of our crime is committed in richmond is not by richmond residen up on a case so i hope people some people start listening to me and slowing down and flush with this winter less access we have to right the more time we have to do other things so and there again if you're interested in the public safety concept public safety building in one form or another when the slack board makes that announcement please contact them until then i hope you have a nice day