welcome to our second edition of the richmond police beat it's been about five weeks since our initial edition was done and like to talk about a few things that have happened in town and sense that time one of the things that we've had going on  since our last report is we've had seven burglaries in town of the hundred twenty six cases we've involved or been involved in a couple of these cases involve bacon houses or houses that didn't have people  and he's were all during the day time someone entered the house and in two of these houses they took the the entire copper piping out of the house not one of these houses was vacant due to storm damage from hurricane irene and one of these houses was vacant because it was up for sale and the current owners weren't living in it so i really need the public to be on the lookout if you see anything suspicious to call the police will go it may turn out to be nothing but we'd rather go to the nothing and than have actually something happening and we're not notified of it now one of the burglaries we did have back in late february was in one of the businesses in town located off the river road and in that case just three days ago officer green over the police department was able to identify locate and track down a suspect we received a full confession on that burglary and the gentleman has now been charged with a felony count of burg here again it all relates back his problem was he needed cash to feed his habit of heroin he has a heroin addiction the reason we couldn't find him since the end of february is he did one smart thing he checked himself into rehab he knew it was something he had to do to get off his addiction to heroin and i'm not sure three weeks is sufficient but we'll see what the judge says when he gets arraigned in court next later next month one of the things we do offer in this town is what we call property watch and i really would like to see the people that are going to be away from their homes for extended periods of time to call the police department and request a property watch and what it is a form with all out and it tells us where the where your house is what kind of things are going to be any what kind of vehicles who should have access to your house if there's lights if there's an alarm system who has a key if we actually need to get inside the house so we can't be there all the time for your property watch but it gives us an idea if you're going to be away from the house that if we do check the house which we try to do on a frequent basis and see something suspicious that we're going to get out and check on that a lot of times people forget this tell us that you know someone's going there to feed the cat or feed feed to fish or cage and then we have some that forget to tell us that they have a house cleaning service so it is imperative that you tell us that you know there are going to be people in the house on occasion we've even had  where they've had contractors there and they forgot about that but it gives us a way to you know try to check these places make sure that nothing happens to your home while you're you know someplace on vacation for a week or two and in some cases we've had people away for up to a year i'd also like to bring up back in the late fall officer jake of hansel investigated a burglary where we did charge a one suspect with possession of stolen property but just recently he was able to get enough information to charge a saw a second s in that case also with possession of burglary possession of stolen property as part of that burglary so we are working hard on solving these very wary crimes we've made now three or four arrests in the last few months  that involved federal agency and that search warrant there was almost one hundred bags of heroin sees along with three hundred or three thousand dollars in cash and two fugitives at the bronx new york city area this basically the two suspects were were taken into custody by the federal agents and the two local residents who home they were and where the heroin was will be facing a federal grand jury in a short period of time i can't get into specifics on this because it is a federal investigation but we've been questioned about it people know when they see you know richmond police when whiskey police federal police cars all at one resident that something is going on but nine almost nine hundred bags of heroin that's over thirty thousand dollars worth that's being sold on the streets so it is here in town we're vigilant on the fact that we do have drugs here and it's not just a problem that's in burlington or south bronx in a rotten compass is both small and large towns throughout the state one of the other things we've done since the last time we talked was with all the shootings that are going on throughout the country the vermont state police tactical support unit just put on what they call an active shooter training and i put all our officers including myself through this training back in march earlier march except except for one officer who was on vacation we'll get him in a later date but what this is is we used an old i b m building in essex and it's four different scenarios that we used and what would happen if we have to go in a building that has an active shooter a school or a factory or any kind office building and what it allows us to do is we these for our segments is work with agencies throughout the not only counting but we had the columbine shooting things have changed when we have an active shooter the first officer on the scene their goal is to neutralize that shooter they step if they have to those they go by and people that you know i've been shot because they're trying to eliminate any continuing firing from the suspect and another thing i would like to talk about is are accidents in town you know we have a lot of accidents we have in the last three years we've had over one hundred ninety accidents thirty of those were injury accidents and two of those were fatal accidents since two thousand and ten the biggest factor with these accidents  he was blue like a one seven one which is more than twice the limit and ended up going off the road take out a whole series of mailboxes but the majority of these accidents are people just need to learn to slow down well you know everybody thinks about it when it happens on the interstate when you get a little storm and crashes and slide off all happen but it also happens here in town you know one night one of the officers had like five different vehicles go off a hillview road luckily nobody was hurt there was no major damage but people have to slow down one of the things i'm working on right now just before we started this program is getting another grant i'm going to ask for four thousand dollars and what that will allow us to do is put an extra officer out there on overtime during our peak accident times to enforce the traffic laws speeding being the big one because that we can go back and look if you look at the majority of our accidents speed is involved in more than fifty percent of them so you will see an extra officer out there hopefully after september on the new grant doing speed enforcement of the traffic related for probably the four biggest roads that we have are accidents and we all know they're there east and west main street there one seventeen and there huntington road and believe it or not we had about seventeen of them are here on bridge street i'd like to talk about another one of our late reporter burgers we had and this actually occurred back in probably october we think and this is here again this was a case where the victims brought in a contractor of some sort to do some work on the house in the meantime we find out now that a checkbook was stolen we're working on this case now we're working with getting all the bank surveillance but over eight thousand dollars has now been written on the victim's checking account which they didn't catch because they weren't vigilant on checking their statements either electronically or when they receive them in the mail we do have a prime suspect in this case we know who it is we're working with the book basically the federal probation and parole because this person is on federal probation for drug charges and very shortly the case will be completed and we'll be looking  charge this person with felony grand theft when you do have people coming in your house don't leave your stuff out we have had burglaries or theft i should say where it's easy pickings it's no different than when you leave your stuff in plain sight in a car jewelry laying out on your nightstand you leave your checkbook laying out on your das sometimes they leave cash laying around just make sure especially if you don't really know these stuff is right there and it's just too easy for them to just pick it up and walk off with it so since we've last talked we've also our traffic work has picked up but we've issued a total of one hundred forty two traffic criminal d l s when your license is suspended but it's criminal where most of the time now when your license is suspended it's called the civil violation and you get up to five of those it's just a traffic ticket and after the fifth one you're six then you're already got five convictions then it goes criminal of course is also criminal if you're already been suspended for his crimes like dui leaving the scene of the accident careless negligent operation attempting to elude a police officer those are automatically criminal but we've had four of those and again like i said earlier we've made want to arrest someone of our recent burglaries and that person will be facing that felony burglary charge if you have any questions feel free to call us now we're not manned here twenty four seven we do have a part time in ministry of a system that comes in mans the followers does the computer work enters the cases in the computer system answers the phone but a lot of times we're not here so call the four three four two one five six which is a non emergency number but if it is an emergency call nine one one just call it and the state police will dispatchers to whatever the incident is and we can get there much faster than if you try to call the four three four two one five talking it will prime it will go to the s p was that so it's not like i listening to another agency and i'm going to miss our calls it automatically switches over so i think somebody can be talking on the radio from another ac soon as i keep my mike it's to the transmitter for d s p well it's them so they don't miss my calls people don't understand as we have a mutual aid agreement with all all law enforcement for instance at night when we generally only have one person on wellston p d will be scanned us all the time it's not uncommon if they hear one of our guys going to say a domestic assault call by themselves they're on a car already and if it's not then it will be the state police because they also myra's in the state police also dispatchers for so they they know what we're doing all the time this is our radar this radar does ball stationary moving and it was due to both directions if you notice right here this is an antenna so anything coming at me that's their speed this is our patrol speed right here but we don't see it as much as in the old days when we had just basically what they called stationary radar where you had you had to pull over and just sit there and run it what you're seeing right now on the radar is my speed what you see that car right there pick up and he spotted me and there's a forty five zone right here he was doing fifty five initially spotted me and he saw speed just go right down to forty  even though this is an unmarked car with intent as a spot light blue lights the amber lights in the dak everybody pretty much knows it now we're doing thirty nine forty this car coming at us  doing forty five miles an hour which is the posted speed limit here and people say we don't wave to him but what i'm trying to do right now is i'm looking at the speed when they come at me i'm looking at the front plate to see if it vermont car and then i'm looking at the inspection sticker so a lot of times the last thing you see is the driver and they're waving and we don't wave back  and the tone you hear when you do this you can tell faster cars going by the tone that's the tone from the doppler radar signal going out the tone to get higher pitch the faster the cars go on and then we can  it say that car was going sixty in a forty five and i stopped it when i testify in court you know my national clocks were whatever speed was but i also observed both watching the car and watching the radar the spee come down right here this big button is the hold button so right now to defeat the radar detectors i have a signal on hold which means doppler radar signal is not going out so the people ha radar detectors they're not going to know when i see a vehicle and i think they're going too fast all i do is hit this button i get instantaneous read by the time their radar detector activates i already can see what they're doing this camera only records when i activate the blue lights it'll come on automatically or i can switch it out with this mike i just hit record or i can hit the record button here the problem with this delay that we want and it doesn't have the rear camera thank you for joining us on this edition of richmond police bait i'm chief alan buck and hope you'll join us next time