be welcome to another edition of the richmond police beat has been about five weeks since we've talked to the last time so we've had a fairly active period in the times since then just basically i'd  since that last time we've spoke we've had one hundred forty nine cases and we'll get into some of those cases a little bit here in a minute the guys have written one hundred twenty three traffic ticket sixty five written warnings twenty one parking tickets and that's just cents aug twelfth now one of the things we're going to talk about today again is dugway road and the gorge myself and officer green oh went there yesterday and in the lower gorge area we wrote at least twenty parking tickets we can tell that the schools back in session or at least college students because most of these vehicles were illinois connecticut pennsylvania massachusetts new hampshire probably a fifteen twenty minute segment and there are vehicles that were there that weren't ticketed that were parked in the right spot and you can tell their rights by you just can't leave your vehicles that tie up the road like they've been doing the fire chief tha come through as well i think i can get one for drug through here we have to go and that's part of the problem not the fact that they can't read the signs that if we have something that gorge we can get the emergency vehicles through there so again i'm just reminding you that please park in designated areas get your vehicle off the road it's going to come to a point where we're not going to just take it then we're going to call the wreckers and we're going to have them towed because they're in the way now corporal hansel and had an accident up on hines byrd road and the guy was doing probably at least seventy miles an hour on that before he lost control of his car injured his passenger that gentleman it was a second offense he ended up going to jail because it actually was a third offense he ended up going to jail because a third offense is a felony i think he spent the weekend in jail and got to run the following monday or tuesday because we had furlough day in court last week or two weeks ago we had one domestic assault the rest this particular one happened to be the female app was arrested for assaulting then the male partner they were married unfortunately there's a one year old involved are less than one year old so we ended up calling d c s department children and families because we we got to think of the welfare of the child in this particular subject was black slated which means we didn't take her to jail it was on a weekend so the next available court day which would be the monday she had to appear in front of a judge but we also didn't lauer to stay there family members came and got her and took her to another location we've had four trespassing complaints and we're at the same guy he's been arrested four times in the short period of time we were also arrested the same in just recently for dui and disorderly conduct and i know he's got four prior duis all in the last five or six weeks now he's been arrested either by us or other local agencies for it's now up to five duis in that time period he's been arraigned we've asked the prosecutor's avast they get some kind of treatment hopefully we think now that he might be on his way to  a treatment facility because we've got to get this person off the road we had one d c by phone which is disorderly conduct we had one victim got called by and this person  runs a business by an unhappy person more than fifty times an hour plus text him pictures of you know certain items that are a danger to somebody's life i was go kill him and all this so we actually working with them while county sheriff's department found their accused up there in johnson and charged him with this and then cited him in the court for here and shit in district court to answer a charge of disorderly conduct by telephone because there is that law and doesn't have to be by telephone it can be text messaging is covered now computer internet and it's called by electronic means other than telephone so that's good news more and more because we used to get a lot of d c by phone complaints but more we get more now disorderly conduct by electronic means they're sending death threats and stuff like that over text messaging messaging we had one careless or negligent operation which was a part of an attempting to allude one of the officers here which you saw last in the last episode or officer linda moved ended up clocking a vehicle on huntington road at sixty seven unfortunately the guy saw the blue lights come on and try to get away to end up chasing him in the uneaten where he finally decided maybe it was wiser to give up and the young man was charged with seeing an operation and attempting to allude back brett want to the point that he measured the distance you got a calculator out there that actually is a formula you can use and the minimum speed that that person was going to travel that distance had to be in excess of sixty seven miles an hour and that's the minimum speed that's if it's a straight line and we're talking about those of you in the huntington road specially come up the flats up there just beyond granby you headed toward huntington you get those as curves you get the real uphill and downhill then when he huntington right now you had all that gravel where they dug up all the blacktop but he finally got smart enough and and decided that you know it's time to stop we estimate that he was doing well over eighty miles an hour he was just looking for a place that he could turn off where the police car could see him and hide on us  we had one false information to a police officer and that's were basically it started from a motor vehicle stop and the guy tried to lie who we were as well and today's day in age if they've been arrested in their mug shot has been taken electronically all the cruisers here in town now have a computer in it that's up to this system right here for this film in system which is how we get it's called cad peter a dispatching their mug shot comes up we can bring up have their mug shot come up so he basically was trying to implicate his brother because this one was under criminally suspended and had his brother take the rap who wasn't even there  luckily officer linda muth saw through his story and the photo doesn't match the person that was actually driving the vehicle so he also got charged with a criminal d l s on that too which means he's he's licensed has been suspended criminally and he has to go see the judge now we had one violation of release of conditions arrest and that's basically it resulted from an earlier domestic case that we handled here where the person was arrested and the judge such conditions and who usually the conditions are you cannot make contact with the victim you cannot be within so many feet usually it's three hundred feet or more you cannot text message you can and you can't lot of times there's no alcohol involved because a lot of these domestics when we get to home are there's huge alcohol involved in this particular one there was this is like the third time or fourth time we dealt with i think was the third time we dealt with him we took him to jail and he said the judge i think was sick of seeing him we arrest them three times and less than two weeks and the last i knew he spent about two weeks or maybe three weeks in jail which wasn't a bad thing because he came in here get his his personal stuff in the other day and he was actually sober and we'll see how long he can stay sober and maybe that's what he needed he needed that three week drying out period to realize that alcohol was the root of his evils we had disorderly conduct charge and that's basically wood as you know you have the freedom of speech and all that but you can't go and interfere with other people's personal liberties and that's what this case was in that person was charged with that so in the end from that basically five week period we ended up with eighteen criminal arrests that's where people who were taken to jail or cited in the court and ended up going in front of a judge or we'll be going in front of a judge depending on  it is only when we cite somebody in a court we have to have the paperwork there at least fourteen days ahead of the site date and it's not not as bad when we arrest somebody and actually take them the jail we do the paperwork raid up the court house has a drop box we drop it in the drop box the receptionist picks it up in the morning or whatever attorney is assigned the case they read the affidavit and all the other stuff that's attached to it which is use about this that because you g bail statements and custody custody reports and criminal record checks and motor vehicle records checks and what we call triple in which runs of nationally so it's quite a stack of paperwork just for one charge  we've also handled like i said almost one hundred fifty cases on top of this one of those cases was a sexual assault that our off initiating an investigating officer and the good thing about this was officer green i was the school resource officer and has been for the last four year will be going on for years this victim having  association with him even though she's not in the school anymore was able to come and confide in him having the the s r o in the school you know in the police presence they see a police officer as basically sometimes as a mentor as an educator and as a helper not just the person that there was somebody in jail all the time and this victim actually came to him and there was enough probable cause that we called cousy for those of you don't know a cousy as we've talked about this before that's the chitlin unit for special investigations these are detectives they're dedicated to basically all they do is sexual assault and a lot of it's child sexual assaults they look at what we had in it and they've taken the case over and i anticipate that there will be criminal charges in this case in the future but that's some of the things that that we've done we've had several other cases we've talked a little bit about alcohol we've actually had several cases where we detoxed people because they've had too much to drink in the family or friends of called we haven't charged him criminally but we've taken him to what's called act one which is down in burlington so the officer has to take it was just like taken into custody most of the time for our safety there handcuffed they're put in cruiser with a cage they're transported down to act one which is down in burlington act one screen's them if act one doesn't feel that they will stay there until or sober their cause a problem they refuse them so the good thing would a police officer at least in our perspective is there's no paperwork for us to do they do the paperwork they check off a box refused we take that person straight to the  more in jail because the jail won't release until they blow zero zero zero so we've had several of those cases and since we last talked about five weeks ago it's still time consuming and normally we only have one officer on duty so that officer is away from the town for usually an hour or so and that's part of the business we do i'd like to talk a little bit about repaving starting probably over the first week of september if everything stays on schedule they're going to start repaving right here and bridge treat and that's going to go from the bridge all the way up to the four corners a route t is going to tie up traffic so school i was kind of hoping this would be done before school started but it's not school be in session for us so those of you that use that route you might want to give yourself ample time to deal a bridge street when it happens and get you know your child or children to the schools every summer when school starts or every fall when school starts that traffic backs up did change the light signals in the last month or so so hopefully it'll be a little better this year you're going to see a longer signal for traffic coming off jericho road or coming off bridge street in the shorter si now for traffic traveling on route to east or west we'll see if that works they're also going to do east hill road and all of the still road is what i'm told right basically for from sherwood forest road all the way down to iceberg road it's all going to be repaid now it's my understanding these are going to be the paving jobs where they bring it bring in the big grinders and it takes weeks and weeks to grind up all the old asphalt these are just basically going to be resurfacing so the fill in the potholes the best they can and then they'll probably put another inch or inch and a half away or brand new pavement on top of the road and then that we market and there's also the possibility that depot street could be done in the future try to keep an eye on the front porch form if those of you that are members get that it will be in there i'm sure that they'll be a press release at least a few days before these road construction projects are started but it's going to be after school starts so you're going to have to contend with that and act accordingly for your time schedule now we're going to go out in the other room and the sooner jim here picks up the camera we have a new security system here in the office and recording system which is something that was badly needed and i'm just going to briefly go over it would you show you how it works and what it looks like we're in an age of electronic technology and it's not just the teenagers and law enforcement uses it we have computers in the cars now we have video cameras in the cars now prosecutors want to see the video judges want to see the video and defense attorneys want to sit in video and they always send in this request until just recently we didn't have that capability here in the office we could have video in a cruiser but once we left that cruiser and we were a prisoner in here a suspect that was the end of it we had cameras in here but they were all a good for a monitor like you see on the wall that the officer could just kind of watching what was going on if they had someone down in the holding cell that's all they could do is they watch or they were up here sitting at the workstation trying and right type up their app a david because we're taking somebody to jail they could watch it but they couldn't hear anything and we could record anything and that became problem so working with jeff the town manager he found some funding to upgrade our system we now have a four camera system in the police department that records continuously for zones and if you look over here on the wall there's a monitor and it's splitting into four zones it shows our front lobby where the receptionist sets so anybody it comes in there it records constantly plus it has the audio it shows the holding cell would audio the interview room with audio and it shows most of this room and the reason we do that is in this  this records continuously and records in this control panel up here and once it goes through eleven the fourteen day it's like all if nobody you know copies the recording it just starts recording over and just keeps on going doesn't save it beyond that so if we have someone in here that's under arrest or even an interview we now have the capability having that our records so we leave the cruiser you don't see anything anymore and then we get to the holding cell it will now be on video so when the officers downstairs in that holding cell in these processing play a drunk driver and they're not behaving it's no longer just the officer's word in the affidavit we now have it on video and then what they'll do is once they're all done in this person easy they release to family on a citation or take in the jail or take an act one to sober the drunk driver and the officer just comes in here gets on his little mike puts in the passwords brings up the search screen goes to that either puts in a disk in this unit rate here or you can go with a thumb drive and sort of thumb drive click on it copy that and then save it on to the desk or thumb drive and then we have to make multiple copies because we need one for the prosecution one for the defense and one for the q s if they want it and it all goes to court and all goes on a disk even if we do it to a thumb drive we have to put it on a the holding cell and the interview room we have the capability of shutting the mike off so for instance if if i arrested somebody for whatever the charges and they want to talk to a lawyer well you know it's not like i can just leave them unattended but what we can do now is we go over here and for our interview room in our holding cell we can remotely switch off the mikes so we give them a cordless phone is the public defender or attorney of your choice we can watch them we just can't hear it anymore they can talk to or attorney because that's privileged and once they get done we take the cordless phone back we can read activate the mike keep on going until we're done with the processing that way they have their attorney privilege that's that we can overhear and or record and that's how the system works and judges want to see it i guess that prosecutors want to see it the fence attorneys want to see it you wouldn't believe the requests we get here you know do you have video on this you know it may be a dui or it could be just a straight accident you know a lot of times insurance companies do you now do they want to report do you have a video well it takes time to do all this stuff so the legislation legislators did a few years back pass a law that actually allows us to charge a minimal fee if it's a real you know report that we got to download and copy when diane's here there's a minimum fifteen dollars charge if it's a video because we supply the disks it's a fortified out of charge but that's only for private attorneys insurance companies or general public we cannot charge for instance the state's attorney's office because the prosecutors or the public defender's office because they're a state agency that's how it works so we can now see if the officer sitting here and we don't happen to have it in ministry eight or you know we can see someone that comes in the lobby though they'll show up on the screen and will know that somebody is there they don't just stand there even though we have the bell system we can actually have that officer sitting here he'll see it and we have the capability of just these cameras were field of view on this particular camera here in this room this is the officers work room if he pans around you know there's a refrigerator is a microwave there's the computer system this is where they do most of their paperwork believe it or not supposed to be paperless but i think we use more paper now than we did before this particular room as i said this camera has a snare or field of view behind the camera is our evidence storage locker and weapons locker which is always locked but that camera right up there in the corner shows us that room the police entrance which is down the stairs behind the camera and the holding cells at the bottom so we don't have to bring prisoners up and down the stairs anymore it shows that it will show if i walk and eventually he'll show you the monitor and a screen so this is all covered we can see somebody coming in to the interview room we can see someone if for some reason we have to bring someone up the stairs the interview room that's covered and course the holding cell and the front lobbies fully in the view and we're now into the twenty first century