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MEMORANDUM DATE: October 13, 2005 TO: Mike Mornson, City Manager FROM: John Ohl, Police Captain SUBJECT: COMMUNITY SECURITY /CITIZEN COMMUNICATION At the October 4"' work session, the mayor made it clear that he wished to have some conclusion to the public's concern over security issues at the community center, and better communications with citizens regarding crimes issues. I would present the following as suggestions /options: • Install "shoplifter" mirrors in the upper corners of the vending area of the community center. These mirrors would allow anyone in the great hall to see in back of the block partition into the vending area. • Cut down the glaze put on the police department windows to allow secretarial staff to see out, but prevent citizens from seeing information on the police counter. • Modify the wall separating the bathrooms /vending area from the great hall. The center could be reduced in height and the vending could be put on either side. • Install a video surveillance system to include the great hall, several entrances, and supplant the existing outdated police video security system. • Put glass windows in all hallway doors, or replace the doors with doors that have windows. • Put weekly police reports and crime alerts on the city's web site. • Create a subscriber network which would put citizens on a server list to get crime alert information. Citizens could subscribe and unsubscribe to the service. Note: This service should be available sometime in February 2006 per our IT department. • Use flyers and mailings more for unusual criminal events occurring in a neighborhood. Require block captains to subscribe to the email network previously described. Block captains could then be educated by our crime watch officers to pass on the information to the neighborhood. Some of the aforementioned items would be relatively easy to complete and inexpensive. We have already begun putting our crime alerts and weekly police reports on the web site, and have utilized mailings and flyers more often for residential alerts.