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Lino Lakes Police Department 2001 Grant continued: We then followed up this activity with another media event telling what our results were. Some of these joint projects were very successful with excellent arrests such as taking several grams of cocaine and meth as well as guns off our streets. We have also experienced projects that were not as successful. We did find that Wave V seems to have been less successful than we hoped for. Part of this may be the result of the number of people who left town for the week and/or weekend. While we are still pulling numbers together from this wave, they are down from what our group had strived to achieve. One way this group will attempt to resolve problems with enforcement efforts will be through better planning. There will be more aggressive planning on the dates and times we schedule our events. Careful consideration will be given to those times when productivity will be high. IE: Early morning shifts, afternoon rush hours, at the beginning and at the end of a holiday season. Our group has planned several local projects within our jurisdictions that are coordinated with each other. In other words, same dates, same times, resulting in several additional squads enforcing traffic laws in Anoka County at the same time. This will continue. During Wave V KARE 11 did a short media story on this effort. While it was a short story, we believe a strong message was sent to the motoring public. We have also experienced success with the local media within our communities. Reporters have ridden with officers during projects. This results in excellent media stories relayed to the motoring public within our communities. This open invitation to ride along will continue. t-, During several school carnivals within our communities we have assigned an officer to be present and speak about the Safe & Sober program. There were officers present at the Anoka County Fair last year and flyers were distributed to explain the program. And a business card is handed to each motorist stopped by the officers working the projects. These cards briefly explain the project and why they are being stopped. It is our intent to keep these cards in the event we receive another grant. In November of 2000 our group hosted a meeting between ourselves and all the city attorneys representing our agencies. A total of 10 attorneys and six officers were present along with Bob O'Brien. The focus of this meeting was to explain the Safe & Sober program to the attorneys and why it exists. Our group wanted to make sure the attorneys knew the importance of this program and the important role they played. No one wins if traffic violations are pled away or dismissed. Every attorney made positive comments about the meeting and all expressed they would be very aggressive when prosecuting traffic violations in the future. Our group continues to explore these types of pro -active projects and there is currently discussion on holding a similar meeting for the judges within Anoka County. Public Education/Media Relations: + School carnivals ❖ Anoka County Fair ❖ Crime watch newsletters and City newsletters ❖ Cable TV interviews ❖ Local Newspapers + Neighborhood block parties `,. ❖ Shopping malls • National Night Out ❖ Drug & alcohol awareness presentations at schools •:� Reporters riding with officers