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Item No: 10 Meeting Date: July 1, 2002 Type of Business: WK WK: Work Session; PH: Public Hearing; CA: Consent Agenda; CB: Council Business City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Tim Brennan, Deputy Police Chief/Acting Chief Item Title/Subject: Citations and Service Activity Statistics Date of Report: July 1, 2002 Background: On June 10, 2002 I presented the quarterly report for the police department covering the time period from March-May, 2002. Statistical data provided in that report showed a reduction in part I and part II crimes from 475 in 2001 to 400 in 2002. Adult arrests were down from 173 to 128. Juvenile arrests were down from 36 to 18. Since the presentation of this report I have had time to analyze the data in order to respond to questions surrounding this information. During the past year, two officers have been working on a Community Oriented Policing (COP) Project with staff at the Mermaid. This goal of the project was to address the high number of calls for disorderly patrons, underage consumption and possession of alcohol, and false ID’s. The focus of these efforts was to effectively reduce the number of police calls for service for the aforementioned problems. Discussion: The reduction in number of calls for service for Part I & II crimes comparing the three month period of March-May 2001 to the same period in 2002 shows that a majority of the decrease can be attributed to a reduction in calls to the Mermaid. Total calls to the Mermaid for this quarter in 2001 were 95. For the same period in 2002 it was 49, a reduction of 48%. To highlight the major areas of reduction, calls for Illegal possession of alcohol went from 12 in 2001 to 4 in 2002. False ID’s went down from 3 in 2001 to 0 in 2002. Underage consumption went down from 33 in 2001 to 12 in 2002. And disorderly conduct went down from 11 in 2001 to 7 in 2002. MERMAID March-May 2001 2002 Change Calls for Service (Part I & II Crimes) 95 49 -48% Illegal Possession of Alcohol 12 4 -66% False ID 3 0 -100% Underage Consumption of Alcohol 33 12 -64% Disorderly Conduct 11 7 -36% Overall reductions citywide for adult arrests can also be tied to this reduction in reported crimes at the Mermaid during this period, since a vast majority of these types of calls typically result in the arrest of one or more persons.