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Pequot Lakes Police Dept. Report to the City Council August 30, 2007 So far for the month of August the Department has logged 525 individual ICRs. Current Activities: The Reserves, Part time and Full time Officers conducted over 610 business and home security checks throughout the month of July. During these security checks 3 instances of open doors were found at various businesses. The whole Department is gearing up for the start of School in preparation for the additional morning and after school traffic, sporting events and other activities and the installation of Kate Petersen as the new School Resource Officer (SRO). Reserve Officers will again help this year with crowd patrol —control at several of the football games and other extracurricular activities. Training: Aug 5: Officer Josh Gartner provided Taser Re-Certification training for the whole department, including the part time officers. Aug 13 - 17: Officer Kate Petersen attended the National School Resource Officer(SRO) training in St. Paul, in preparation for working in the school this fall. Significant Cases: The Department has been involved in a significant employee theft, embezzlement case from a local area small business. The thefts in excess of$101,000 occurred over a period of years, which were only recently discovered. Formal charges include Diversion of Corporate Property and 4 counts of Felony Theft. Officers continue to concentrate their efforts on reducing the speeds on all roadways, including the Highway and the illegal passing on the right shoulder, especially at intersections. This is an ongoing effort to increase everyone's safety while traveling in and through our community. Community Policing: The Community Policing expenditure committee met for the first time. On the Committee are, Chief Braam, Office Manager Janet Wedan, Deputy Clerk Nancy Malecha, Council members Jim Oraskovich and Tom Ryan. The committee is working on a mission statement and funds request guidelines at this time to aid in the process of accepting and fulfilling funds requests. The Committee did review several requests and approved providing funds to three programs. The first is Quest, which is a Character Building program that the School district will implement into the school curriculum and is used all the way through, from k— 12th grade. The second is Inter-Quest, which is an Independent contractor which utilizes K9 units to do searches for drugs, alcohol and prescription medications. The school will use this program on 10 separate occasions throughout the year. The third program receiving funds was the Rose Family Quilts for Kids. The Rose family and other community volunteers provide area law enforcement, ambulance and fire departments with homemade quilts to be distributed to kids in crisis situations. Respe ull Submitted, Jer Braam `.. Chief of Police