t well since we last talked we've been fairly busy it's not been too hectic in and reaching the end of june since we last spoke we've handled one hundred fifty four cases in the town have written one hundred fifteen traffic tickets hundred forty one mornings and we've actually had seventeen parking tickets and i know it's parking tickets i'd like to bring that to the people's attention fifteen of those were written one day  richmond park and ride and the problem was everybody knows that c c t a bus uses that to pick up passengers that are commuting you know down to mt pay or area and when they park in that circle and they park where there's no parking area as the bus can't get in there and turn around and what they do is in c c t a calls us we've been issuing parking tickets those are not really egregious you know like in the circle we're trying not to tow we've actually we've called some of the owners say look you know you can't have your vehicle here but in the future if they're going to block the c c t a bus know they're going to get a parking ticket but we're going to call the local wreckers and we're going to have the vehicle towed and you'll be subject to the toll charges which will be probably anywhere from one hundred fifty to two hundred fifty dollars so just keep that in mind you know the buses are trying  in there they're trying to get people commuting we're hoping that when they build a new commuter lot just off exit twelve in wills then that will ease up some of the congestion this one i mean they could have built a parking garage here and still filled it  but you just you can't just park in the worst ones are they look right at the signs right there with the picture of him says no parking in a picture of a wrecker towing a car and they leave their car right there or truck whatever happens to be so just you know keep that in mind and you know you may have to park someplace else i know parking in this town is very limited this lot gets for volunteers greens get for depot street even though they expanded extended the parking there it gets full so but you know we get the complaints we have to answer to complaints so far we've only told couple be eccles but we've written quite a few parking tickets in that area which first offense is twenty five dollars and then it goes up after that the town for some of you that live in town you've noticed that when june tenth started it did a lot of damage to the roads i just like to take a minute to stand my gratitude to the highway guys who work untold godly hours to at least get those roads opened up so the people that live on those roads could get back to their houses after a relatively short time i know there were some people that couldn't get to their homes westway hill road dugway road parts of cochran road that you know the roads were just washed out you couldn't get back in there but most for the most part the town that day that night i should say actually got the roads open up so people could get back to their houses i know few people ended up going other places this day and i know it's an inconvenience but that the town crew did everything they could as much as they could  a short period of time to get those open so people could get back in there and they're still working on the roads i talked to pete the four women the other day and and they're still working on these roads but there's because right now is approaching two hundred thousand dollars hopefully with the damage in its surrounding areas throughout the state they'll meet the theme guidelines in the town can ask for reimbursement we've also since we last spoke we saw the couple more more of our burglaries  that happened this past fall heinsberg road locus and all were a lot of joy he was taking and working with stowe p d who actually executed a search warrant we had a suspect to begin with great early in the cases  we were able to my guy had to keep running back and forth the stove to pick up items that they back up over at stowe actually took video of over fifteen hundred pieces of jewelry that were recovered  a search warrant they put it on a desk we went down and got to destin we contacted our victims and had him come in and several of the victims actually were able to identify many pieces of jewelry i think we recovered about eighty pieces of what they could positively done by there were some other pieces that they'd done it by in the video they thought might have been there is but when we actually got the pieces here from stuff they realized they weren't theirs so we ended up you know bringing those pieces back to stowe the good news is we know who it is and we have all the paperwork done to charge him with two more burglaries he's not a kid he's forty years old the disheartening part is though and the last week we call probation and parole where he's listed under their offender registry because of a computer glitch they can't tell us where he is right now we thought he was still in jail but apparently that's not the case so we'll go into the end of the week and if we can they can figure out where he is then what we'll do is we'll take our paperwork we're going for i would judge and will request the arrest warrant for two more counts of burglary that's going to bring this character up firearms known as the a t f because in one of the homes weapons were stolen and they're going to pick up their part of the investigation and see if we can't track because we've never recovered the guns and one is like an a r fifteen and a couple of handguns and they're going to to use their expertise and try to track where these guns when or where they may be because they were and the suspects home when the search warrants were executed and he'll face a lot more if they actually recover the guns and we tie him into those through the federal system and then he will in the state system right after you know everybody knows that the flooding happened on june tenth i join the live and to believe that we got a call the collars as well i can only see one life jacket but they do have a case of beer so we actually tried to track him down but the river was we couldn't find him initially but corporal green arrow actually located him as they came upon volunteers green if we didn't have a case of beer anymore and what it was was that these three industrious gentleman decided to take a ten foot inflatable kid's pool and they took the little things for stability they duct taped to a couple of them underneath the bottom of this inflatable pool so it would be more stable and decided to get into the river and were there to paddles and take a cruise down the river and in my prior life or you know run in the recreational boating program for the state police i pulled quite a few bodies out of the water and i've never pulled one out with a life jacket on and their take was well it's not a boat the minute you put it in the water got in it used to float down the river becomes a vessel and they were issued by lay sions for insufficient life jackets because like i said around that point zero four percent b a c range which is about halfway to legal intoxication so common sense and sometimes applies if you don't really know what the laws are that river was raging that day anybody knows what all the rain we got almost five inches of rain overnight what that river was doing and this this was just foolishness on their part but happily it ended safely and they got their traffic ticket for violation which is not something we do a lot in richmond and were sent on their way i'd also like to take you back up little bit on these burglaries and i'll be talking to a seminar sometime in august and either myself or one of the officers one of the problems we have one we have victims of burglaries is they can describe that and i've talked about this before they can describe the item but you know piece of jewelry to you i'm not going to know what it is my officers are you know what it is here's one of my suggestions if you have valuables and your house that don't have serial numbers but even if they do as you i was photographed them put those photographs someplace else more than not apt to get stolen he'll be put them in like you're safe your little safer whatever you may have you know a lot of people have these little tiny saves that they keep their personal papers and they're apt to take that with them don't put them in there take these photographs take good photographs if you get serial numbers of whatever it is electronics or or firearms serial numbers down keep those someplace where you can get them at a later time because believe it or not even with a firearm if it's stalling and you don't have a serial number to identify it it does not go into the national crime information center which is known as and c i c which means if a police officer stops somebody could be in california and checks that gun in the system runs the serial number it's not going to show up same thing if they take it to a legitimate gun buyer because there's a lot of people out you know a lot of companies out there businesses that will buy weapons for resale they won't know when they do the checks so it's very important that you take good photographs of your valuable stuff jewelry weapons anything that you think is important to you so that way we have awa you know you so you may see one of our cruisers in those areas are doing case follow up and the best thing we can have is a photo so we can take it in show it to the person that made body and say have you bought this because they're now required as of last year and the time that they buy property they're required to get a photo id and photocopy it and we've solved our cases recently because we've been able to go to these vendors say this is what we're looking for yep i bought that on such and such a date pull up their records here's who sold it to me here's a picture of it because it's a driver's license or the driver's photo i d and here's who they are and that's how we've solved some of these cases a lot of legwork and but that's out you know that's what we do so please take photographs since we last spoke with the partner now has one vacancy officer lance martell left that left us and he went to the essex police department i'm hoping before this show is over that we've hired a new officer john hamlin some of you may know john he's right here from richmond would want to mount mansfield he was in the wrestling so his father's been here is the family's been here you know i think of their entire life for most of it and he's our newest officer he graduated from the cademy on may twenty second right now he's doing the what we call the f t o the field training and he will not hit the road on his own until probably the and august he's already completed the  sixteen week police academy and he's gone through the four week post basic which is stuff that they don't teach in the academy we have to send them to back to the academy on certain days sometimes multiple days in a row for other classes  like like this the computer you know they have to learn how to do the what we call spillman the cad computer aided dispatch system how to get their passwords get there and i have it would mean this thing right here which is a secure id token for the computers in the car and i can't access our computers without specific passwords you can't access the computer in a car without a preset code that we assign and then the code changes on this code it changes every thirty seconds or so and if you don't have that you can't access the system so it's a three levels of security for that so because you got a password to get into it you get a different password to enter the computers the actual you know cad system and then you've got to secure token that you've got to enter within that timeframe to get into the systems that are out there because a lot of confidential information stuff that you know you hear in the press all the time you know freedom of information well not everything we do is subject to press review and we're dealing with juveniles  anybody under eighteen that's up to a judge we don't release that information of course informants sensitive cases that you know aren't completed that stuff is not open to inspection but you know once we make an arrest and an issue a citation to somebody goes to court in the app and it was completed now that is public information and that information will be released  on top of that we're still finding drunk drivers out there my today's that now the thirtieth of june my evening officer that came on at three o'clock yesterday afternoon got home about ten o'clock this morning and had an accident come in on the east main by by lily pond circle a rollover accident about one forty this morning woman and her nine year old daughter and turns out that she was very intoxicated this is a felony dui it's or third offense we've called d c after department of children and families we've located the father in burlington that they were both tak a hospital and she was extremely taksim in fact a roadside test was a point to zero six and of course the legal limit point zero eight and then the rest it was just doing all the paperwork then we had to call the judge because before the court said you know twenty five hundred dollars bail this morning and arraignment at ten thirty but we called the judge it about nine o'clock and said look she's she's still point one four or zero nine four can arrange her if she's got call so and one of the day shift take her to jail and she will be held there until sober and if that's before court lets out the rain or this afternoon and if not she'll stay there until tomorrow unless she comes up with twenty five hundred dollars in cash for her bail and her story is you know one forty morning she's going to wal mart this is what alcohol does to you wal mart is not open at one forty in the morning so for the holidays and luckily nobody was seriously hurt they did their cat scan is released there are custody and and matt's going to be back in it three o'clock this afternoon so it's going to be a short amber sleep outside that in the weather it's been relatively quiet we're hoping for good weather this year on july fourth we expect because it's a saturday that we're going to have and with the current weather forecast i suspect that we'll have a rather large crowd at those of you that come to the fireworks just be prepared to wait it takes anywhere when the fireworks and because of all the cars that are in town you know take us anywhere from thirty five to fifty minutes to clear that traffic just to get you back out those of you there headed to main street and through that intersection that's how much traffic we have here i good  things fourth of july weekend for the fireworks i guess and this being a saturday this year i expected it will be rather crowded because right now the weather forecast looks pretty good we should and there's a slight chance of showers but you know we should be fine so hopefully officer am going to be here shortly and we'll introduce you to him and he's going to talk a little bit about the rigors of attending a police academy for almost twenty weeks oh i'm officer hamel richmond police department i just started on the full time i graduated from the ninth basic cademy and i'm here just talk a little bit about that experience in a nutshell it was very intense but it was a great learning environment and gave me the opportunity to really experience a lot that i didn't even know i was going to be getting into so it was a good chance to meet friends develop bonds with different individuals from different departments all throughout the state and from a good relationship in a tough structured learning environment but it required physical p t and a very strong classroom presence as well for sixteen weeks and then we had three to four weeks of post basic after that it was a little more laid back but the classes in the curriculum was still very tough other than that i'm looking forward to my career here with richmond and i can't wait