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• Competitive salary with annual increases
• Generous pension plan
• Incentive pay
• Furnished uniforms and equipment
• Paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave
Requirements include:
• Paid life insurance
• Must possess a high school diploma or GED
• Comprehensive medical / dental / vision
insurance
• Must possess a valid driver’s license
• College tuition assistance
• Must meet minimal physical fitness
standards
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Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office | Personnel Division
505 Travis Street, 7th floor | Shreveport, LA 71101 | (318) 681-0812
www.caddosheriff.org
CPSO is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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CADDO PARISH
SHERIFF’S OFFICE
2001-2010 REPORT
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Letter from the Sheriff
To the Citizens of Caddo Parish:
What defines a decade? At the Caddo
Sheriff’s Office, it’s determined by hard
work, progress, and success.
The addition of digital in-car video systems,
mobile computer terminals, and softwarebased programs that scan license plates
to detect stolen cars and wanted suspects
are just a few examples of progress that
have allowed us to better serve you over the past 10 years.
Advancements in fingerprint databases, computerized crime
mapping, and records management systems now help us do
everything from inventorying property to calculating solvability
factors. Digital radios that allow interoperability with other
agencies, improvements in firearms, and incorporating the use of
Tasers as a less lethal option for deputies are other examples of
positive change.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Letter from Sheriff Prator
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Service and Protection
4-5
Keeping Our Children and Neighborhoods Safe
6-7
Equipment and Technology
8-9
World-Wide Web
9
Savings to Taxpayers
10
Property Improvements
11
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This has also been a decade of success for the Caddo Parish
Sheriff’s Office. Crime is down 31% since 2001; advancements
in technology have allowed for greater transparency in our
agency and easier access to our services by citizens; and we’ve
formed partnerships with other agencies resulting in the creation
of the vastly successful Financial Crimes Task Force, the CaddoShreveport Narcotics Task Force, the FBI Task Force, and the DEA
Task Force. We’ve added new programs like Sheriff’s Safety Town,
new services including a Special Investigations Unit to probe
allegations of public corruption, and a regional Training Academy
that provides instruction to law officers and the public in an everchanging society – all without raising taxes.
As you review our accomplishments for the years 2001-2010, we
at the Caddo Sheriff’s Office are already working toward the
future. New programs are in development that will keep us on
the path to excellence and affirm our place as a leader among
law enforcement agencies. We pledge to provide the citizens of
Caddo Parish with professional and efficient service in the coming
years and to always remember that your safety and satisfaction
are the motivation for all that we do.
Sincerely,
Sheriff Steve Prator
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Service &
Protection
The Caddo Sheriff’s Office devoted the years 2001-2010
to increasing citizen satisfaction with law enforcement by
improving services, programs, professional development, and
fiscal management within the department. Highlights of these
years include:
• Receiving state approval to operate a regional law enforcement training academy, which
generates revenue by training deputies and officers from more than 100 agencies in a 10-parish
area while saving the Sheriff’s Office money by training our deputies in-house. The Caddo Sheriff’s
Academy also leads the region in development of training for the public in areas including church,
school, and hospital security, carrying concealed weapons, and the legal rights of home owners.
• Forming a Special Investigations Section to probe allegations of public corruption.
• Forming a Traffic Safety Unit to fully investigate fatality crashes and serious injury accidents. Selected
deputies receive 320 hours of training in accident investigations and reconstruction. The unit, which
has a high conviction rate, includes national-level traffic safety instructors and deputies considered to
be among the foremost authorities in child passenger safety issues in Louisiana.
• Establishing a full-time Marine Unit and opening a sheriff’s substation on the Red River. The unit provides
the only full-time patrols on the river.
• Merging the Caddo Sheriff’s and Shreveport Police narcotics units into the Caddo-Shreveport
Narcotics Task Force and white collar investigations units into the Caddo-Shreveport Financial Crimes
Task Force to increase efficiency and improve communications.
• Forming a volunteer Auxiliary Deputy Program to supplement the duties of patrol deputies including
neighborhood patrols, special events enforcement, and community programs. The program has 180
auxiliary deputies who have donated time and services valued at over $650,000.
• Hosting Citizens’ Academies and Senior Citizens’ Academies to educate the community about the
duties of law enforcement.
• Re-instituting the Sheriff’s Mounted Patrol.
• Establishing a Work Release Program for pre-screened, non-violent inmates nearing the ends of their
sentences to reduce recidivism and jail overcrowding. Over 700 inmates have participated in the
program which provides gainful employment at participating businesses to help inmates earn money
for fines, child support, and a new start in life.
• Operating a Re-entry Program to prepare inmates for life beyond incarceration. The Caddo Parish
Sheriff’s Office was selected by Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Louisiana Department of Corrections to
build the first of 10 facilities that will house re-entry programs across the state. Over 180 inmates have
graduated from the CPSO program that provides inmates with the life skills needed to re-enter society.
• Overseeing registration of convicted sex offenders in Caddo Parish, which includes conducting
regular compliance checks. CPSO has a 97 percent compliance rate among persons required to
register.
• Hiring an investigator to locate illegal dump sites, adding an extra inmate litter crew to clean up
roadside trash, and starting a public awareness campaign to stop littering.
• Conducting regular operations to address alcohol sales to underage persons.
• Conducting a threat assessment of the Caddo Parish Courthouse and entering into an agreement
with the Caddo Parish Commission to replace private security officers with certified deputies at all
entrances of the Courthouse, Government Plaza, and Francis Bickham Building.
• Joining other agencies to form the Northwest Louisiana Internet Crimes against Children’s Task Force
to investigate suspects who target children on-line for sexual purposes. Caddo Sheriff’s detectives
trained in computer and cell phone forensics have actively investigated hundreds of cases.
• Developing and hosting Louisiana’s first school violence drill for law enforcement. The drill was later
adopted as a statewide model by the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office.
• Establishing a Citizens’ Problem Resolver (CPR) Program with liaison deputies assigned to north and
south Caddo Parish to address community concerns.
• Distributing $1.8 million to Caddo Parish crime victims under the Louisiana Crime Victims Reparations
Act.
Keeping Our
Children &
Neighborhoods
SAFE
A priority of the Caddo Sheriff’s Office is
to promote safety and reduce crime by
developing and administering innovative
programs and crime-fighting initiatives
including:
• Sheriff’s Safety Town, Louisiana’s only interactive
safety learning center for children. Over 25,000
visitors have attended since its December 2008
opening.
• Summer youth programs such as Sheriff’s Camp
at Garland Scout Ranch and the summer
recreation program at area high school
gymnasiums.
• CSI Camp for Kids to give children an
appreciation for science and an inside look at
law enforcement.
• A youth firearms safety education summer camp
that teaches children how to be safe around
guns at home.
• The First Gun Course for Kids, a nationallyrecognized firearms safety course for children
who receive their first shotgun or hunting rifle for
Christmas.
• New courses that address safety issues for men
and women, college-bound and middle school
students, the boating public, and children using
the Internet. Another program, Sheriff’s Operation
Safeguard (SOS), provides memory-impaired
persons with a free ID bracelet that corresponds
to a Sheriff’s Office database should the person
become lost or missing.
• Partnering with the state Fire Marshal to provide
smoke and carbon monoxide detectors in the
homes of senior citizens.
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• Conducting the
first sex offender
sweep by a law
enforcement agency
in North Louisiana to
identify and locate
unregistered sex
offenders living in
Caddo Parish. During
the 20-day sweep, 320
people were identified
and approximately
150 were registered.
The Caddo Sheriff’s
Office also ordered
all sex offenders to
publish their picture,
name, address, and
crime in The Times
as well as the parish
journal so more citizens
would be aware of
their location.
• Successfully
preventing a shelter
for convicted sex
offenders from being
established in Caddo
Parish.
• Hosting the first
area Internet Safety
community meetings
to teach parents how
to keep their children
safe while using the
Internet.
• Using grant funding to
reduce the number of
warrants on file with
the Sheriff’s Office by
publishing the names
of warrants violators
in the newspaper. In
the first month, 1,040
warrants were closed
and $30,139 in fees
were collected. The
effort was a first by
law enforcement
in our region, and
other agencies soon
followed suit.
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WorldWide
Web
The Caddo Sheriff’s Office
is able to provide the
public with immediate
and convenient
access to services and
Equipment
& Technology
information using its
Upgrading current equipment and acquiring new
technology is a necessary part of law enforcement if
deputies are to effectively investigate crimes, identify
and locate offenders, and render assistance to the
public. Equipment acquisitions include:
• L-3 Mobile-Vision digital in-car cameras for all marked units. The ability to record events from a patrol
car is invaluable in matters involving traffic stops, criminal investigations and arrests, internal affairs,
and training.
• 800 MHz 15-channel simulcast trunked radio system. The radio system allows all public safety agencies
• Mobile Data Computers. The in-car laptops for patrol,
detective, warrants, and marine units connect wirelessly to law
enforcement computer database systems, providing deputies
with instant information.
• An Automated License Plate Recognition System that uses
plate-scanning technology and software to scan thousands
of license plates during routine patrols. The plates are
automatically compared to multiple databases to determine
if the vehicles are stolen or if registered owners are wanted.
The Caddo Sheriff’s Office received the only ALPR system in
in Caddo and Bossier parishes to communicate more efficiently and effectively by sharing one
the area when it was donated to the department by Red Ball
common radio network with compatible radio equipment and frequencies.
Oxygen Inc.
Other equipment
updates include:
• Obtaining grant funding
to purchase vehicles and
watercraft for the Marine Unit,
including a SafeBoat and
Hovertrek Hovercraft; more
accurate Glock handguns for
all deputies; and equipment to
respond to incidents involving
weapons of mass destruction.
• Obtaining AR-15s for deputies
and an armored personnel
carrier through military surplus.
• Implementing a bar coding
system in the Property Room to
track evidence and property
by computer.
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website at
www.caddosheriff.org.
• The Sheriff’s Office
brought about significant
change in area law
enforcement by being
the first to post many
public records online. Jail bookings and
outstanding CPSO
warrants are now
available for public
inspection; citizens can
receive local sex offender
information through
OffenderWatch, a sex
offender management
system and community
notification tool; and
bidders worldwide can
participate in on-line tax
sales.
• Other on-line services
include receiving
personal account
information, paying taxes
by credit card, paying
tickets and fines, and
viewing property to be
featured in upcoming
Sheriff’s Sales.
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Property
Improvements
The following building projects were completed
without requesting additional money from Caddo
Parish taxpayers:
• Construction of Sheriff’s Safety Town.
• Construction of a 6,000 square-foot addition to the Regional Training Academy.
• Construction of a work release dormitory paid for with funds generated by inmates participating in
the program. Moving work release inmates also increased space for violent offenders to be housed at
Caddo Correctional Center.
• Construction of a re-entry program building.
• Renovation of the S’port Marina to be used as a sheriff’s substation on Red River.
• Construction of a full-service substation in Oil City with extended operating hours.
• Interior renovations to the central substation at 4910 North Market Street in Shreveport.
Savings to
Taxpayers
Developing new programs that save the Sheriff’s Office money
and generate revenue is one way CPSO has maintained a
healthy fund balance without asking for new taxes. Allowing
only expenses that are practical and necessary is another. To
save money, the Sheriff’s Office:
• Construction of a fleet maintenance facility at 4910 North Market Street that more than doubled
mechanics’ workspace.
• Renovation of the tax department making it more user friendly for visitors.
• Uses sentenced Department of Corrections inmates to perform tasks such as litter abatement; food
preparation, laundry, and maintenance at the Caddo Correctional Center; and services at the parish
Animal Control facility. This saved taxpayers $1.3 million in 2010.
• Began using in-house instructors in lieu of outside vendors to conduct misdemeanor DWI, driver
improvement, and drug offender programs. To date, nearly 4,000 people have attended the classes.
• Switched to a “heart healthy” menu at the Caddo Correctional Center, saving $33,800 annually in
food supply costs, and reducing the number of special diets prepared.
• Reduced the number of agency nurses at CCC and implemented a more cost-effective paramedic
program using off-duty fire paramedics in a part-time capacity.
• Replaced one hot meal with one cold meal daily for inmates.
• Cut condiments at meal service for inmates saving over $27,400 annually. Inmates may purchase their
own condiments with their own money from their personal commissary accounts.
• Reduced fuel costs by switching from premium to regular gas in departmental vehicles.
• Sold departmental airplane and entered into an agreement with the Civil Air Patrol to provide
volunteer services when needed.
• Reduced the number of paid holidays for employees.
• Cancelled contract for outside representation at employment hearings saving approximately $50,000
each year. Representation at hearings is now handled in-house with a near-perfect record in favor of
the Sheriff’s Office.
• Began filing yearly lawsuits to collect on delinquent personal and oil and gas property taxes resulting in
the collection of over $1.6 million to date.
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Did You Know?
• Over 1350 inmates are incarcerated every day at the Caddo Correctional Center.
• CCC is the largest direct-supervision jail in Louisiana.
• CCC serves all law enforcement agencies in Caddo Parish.
• CPSO employs 762 people. Over half work at CCC.
• The kitchen staff at CCC prepares over 1
Caddo Parish each year.
• The Patrol Division travels an average of 2.7
million miles per year.
Major Crime Totals
3,000
Arrest Totals (includes Narcotics Task Force)
3,500
3,000
2,500
2,500
2,000
2,000
1,500
Calls Dispatched
3,087
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
CCC Daily Inmate Averages
Drug possession and/or distribution
Theft
Burglary
Illegal Possession of Stolen things
Forgery
1,354
1,430
1,429
1,367
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Total Number of Traffic Accidents
1,200
1,000
800
600
400
200
0
983
Top 5 Bookings at
CCC 2001-2010
0
1,045
2010
1,358
2009
1,048
2008
1,107
2007
1,000
2006
1,101
45,417
2005
1,071
46,211
2004
1,079
44,051
2003
300
973
44,043
2002
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2004
1,086
43,741
2001
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
2003
1,017
42,695
600
41,376
20,000
40,702
900
40,744
30,000
37,859
1,200
0
2002
1,500
40,000
10,000
2001
1,082
50,000
0
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
984
2010
3,062
2009
1,006
2008
3,072
2007
3,071
1,731
2006
2,788
1,840
2005
2,620
1,941
2004
2,629
2,075
2003
2,839
2,057
2002
500
2,932
2,176
2001
1,000
2,926
2,363
0
2,453
500
2,479
1,000
2,520
1,500
998
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million meals each year.
Inmates assigned to the litter work crew collect nearly 56 tons of roadside litter in Shreveport and
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2010
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Total Number of Fatality Accidents
25
Papers Received and Served by Civil Dept.
120,000
100,000
20
80,000
15
2008
2009
2010
Victims’ Reparations Awards
350,000
0
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Amount Collected at Sheriff’s Sales
956
1,035
1,854
2,382
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
$9.2M
3148
$6.4M
3606
$9.7M
3654
2009
$8.3M
3298
$4.4M
2008
$6.2M
2490
3109
$5.3M
2007
2010
Properties Sold at Tax Sale
1,694
913
2005
2006
2,490
711
2004
2005
3,654
601
2003
2004
3,606
562
2002
2003
3,148
430
2001
2002
3,298
371
1,000
4000
3500
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
2001
3,109
1,500
0
N/A
2010
2,810
2009
2,456
2008
2
N/A
2007
2,000
0
2004
1,954
2006
Community Programs Conducted
2,500
500
2003
N/A
2005
$110,985
$138,328
2004
$272,054
2003
$328,563
2002
$269,095
2001
$164,299
$177,466
4
$155,944
150,000
$104,782
6
$112,409
200,000
0
2002
8
250,000
50,000
2001
10
300,000
100,000
115,201
13
2007
119,795
15
2006
118,659
17
2005
107,864
22
2004
88,843
19
2003
58,617
13
2002
72,300
20
2001
20,000
52,614
18
0
6
5
17
40,000
61,710
10
58,846
60,000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Attendance at Community Programs Events
100,000
80,000
60,000
41,396
42,018
48,752
48,638
49,159
53,165
70,399
88,523
0
50,361
20,000
36,967
40,000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
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