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P O L I C E
C H I E F
R O B E R T
H A N D Y
Dec 2012/Jan 2013
Community
Police Academy
Feb 6 - Mar 20
February
Coffee with a Cop
More details on page 5
On November 7, 2012, the 8th Community Police Academy
had its graduation at the San Bernardino Police Department.
The last session included the SBPD Mounted Unit and a tour
of the police department. The tour allowed the graduates an
inside peek at a patrol car, our dispatch center, the SWAT tactical vehicle and walk through the unoccupied SBPD jail.
Chief Robert Handy presented each graduate with a certificate
of completion and answered any additional questions about
the department.
Colleen McCabe
Academy Graduate
SBPD Graduates tour our Dispatch Center
Meet the men and women of the San Bernardino Police Department
This is a 14-hour program and is conducted over a seven-week period, one night a week.
There is no cost to attend this event. There is ample free parking.
Location: San Bernardino Police Department, 710 N. D Street, San Bernardino, CA
Time:
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (All sessions will be on a Wednesday Night)
Dates:
February – 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2013, March 6, 13 & 20, 2013
Call to reserve your seat: (909) 388-4946 or (909) 384-5753
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Holidays were bright at SBPD
December was a difficult time for City
employees and community members.
Many were left with an unsteady feeling
coming into the holiday season. However, despite the City’s financial crisis,
employees and citizen volunteers still
found it in their hearts to give to others
less fortunate than themselves.
The SBPD Food Drive has been a continued success due to the support of
Rialto High School and their generous
donations from a school food drive.
The first food drive was partnership
with the newly formed SBPD Community Affairs Unit and School Resource
Officer Tina Martinez. Since then, the
idea of feeding needy families turned
into a holiday tradition.
The students at Rialto High School
host a food drive and donate all food to
needy families in the area. Once the
food is collected, it is brought to the
San Bernardino Police Department and
the student volunteers helped package
the bags of food in an assembly line.
Most worked all day and then helped
give away the food to the families. Volunteers included students from San
Bernardino High School and the Public
Safety Academy. They held an important role to the event by helping set
up and distribute food bags to our local
families.
This year, our new neighbor, Amazon of
San Bernardino donated $5,000 to assist
with purchasing additional food and supplies for the families.
On December 18, 2012, Santa Claus
(during the off-season, he is also known
as Mr. Scott) arrived on scene with a bag
of stuffed animals and toys to greet the
families. Each family received a frozen
turkey and a bag containing various food
items.
Initially, the event was expected to donate food to 150 families. As the date
grew closer, the donations exceeded our
expectation and a total of 200 food bags
were distributed!
The Way Outreach Church and a homeless shelter were also able to receive turkeys for holiday meals.
Each child at the event received a stuffed
animal and a candy cane after meeting
Santa Claus.
The children’s joy to meet Santa is
enough for this event to continue to
be an annual holiday tradition at the
San Bernardino Police Department.
Student Volunteers from the PSA wait
for the kids with stuff animals
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SBPD partners with Salvation Army
On December 12, 2012, the San Bernardino Police Department partnered
with the Salvation Army for it’s first
ever toy drive. During the event, a
booth was set up in front of the San
Bernardino Police Department in order to collect toys needy families in
San Bernardino, Grand Terrace, Colton, Highland and Rialto.
Clear Channel Radio did some awesome advertising for the event. They
set up live KGGI radio shows at
Crest Chevrolet, Harlow’s Appliances
and Best Price Auto Glass from De-
cember 12th through the 14th.
Community members were able to
drive up to the KGGI radio site and
give toys to officers who were standing by with the PD’s Hummer. The
radio station also gave out prizes and
amusement park tickets to people
who donated toys.
The event at each location was a great
success. We collected approximately
500 toys and $175 in cash donations
from the public.
Thank you to all who participated and
donated toys for such a great event.
Toy Donation Station in front of SBPD
Community Members with Toy Donation
Box full of donated toys
Harlow’s Staff, KGGI Staff and SBPD Officers
set up at Harlow’s Kitchen Concepts
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Third Annual Sam’s Club Shop with a Cop
The worst call that officers handle are
those involving innocent children. Unfortunately calls involving children occur on a daily basis. Many of these calls
stay with the responding officers and
investigators their entire careers. Most
officers say that they are never able to
forget the children who are victims of
abuse or violence.
The holidays give us a chance to forget
the horrible circumstances around some
of the crimes against children by inviting them to Shop with a Cop.
Thanks to the generosity of Wal-Mart
Foundation and our local Sam’s Club
San Bernardino, the San Bernardino
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Police Department received a generous
community grant. Eight children spent
over an hour shopping with SBPD Officers and Detectives at Sam’s Club in the
City of San Bernardino.
Each child has a different story and a different reason why they have had contact
with officers but they all now have a happy ending to their stories. Everyone
shared pizza together and took their
shopping carts around the store picking
out stuffed animals, clothes and video
games. The only rule was that they were
to buy something for themselves with the
money they were given.
The smiles were never ending.
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University of Phoenix Christmas Donation
The holiday season was made a little
brighter by a generous donation from the
University of Phoenix staff.
On December 4, 2012, James Henderson,
the Campus College Chair from the University of Phoenix donated 100 new
stuffed teddy bears to the San Bernardino
Police Department. Community Affairs
Sgt. Brone Spann accepted the donation
and began thinking of the best way to
distribute them.
burglarized. The bears were seen as the
perfect size for officers to put in their gear
bags so that they can give them out to
needy children while on patrol.
We like to thank University of Phoenix
for their contribution to the
San Bernardino Police Department.
Unfortunately, during the holiday season
may police calls for service include family
disputes and often times many homes get
Christmas Tree Giveaway
Cold, around 25 degrees, was no obstacle
for holiday fun on Thurs., Dec. 20 at
5:30p.m. in the Arden-Guthrie Community.
off to families, along with gifts donated by
the Foundation, Code Enforcement and
$1,000 from the San Bernardino City Professional Fire Fighter Union.
SBPD, Code Enforcement and “A Time
For Change Foundation” provided a holiday safety presentation for about a dozen
families. Among the items covered were
lighting and fire safety, taking special precautions when shopping, disposing of gift
boxes in such a way so as not to let anyone know what obviously was in them,
and avoiding driving while intoxicated.
Among attendees were Mayor Patrick
Morris, Kim Carter, and Carey Jenkins,
Susan McDevitt and her team.
Carrie Rios of Code Enforcement recognized the generosity of City staff, who
donated gifts and helped set up the event,
and Connie Williams of the Foundation
for providing a location for the event.
As a fun farewell, Christmas trees donated by L&S Christmas Trees were raffled
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SBPD in the Community
Chief Robert Handy met with about 150 community members on Wed., Nov. 21 at the Arrowhead Country Club, following a homicide
involving a 76-year-old female victim.
Most of the discussion, however, was about
transients, panhandling and marijuana dispensaries. Some of these issues, the Chief said, were
the province of policy makers outside of the
Police Department, while on the transient issue,
he said, "We are trying to refocus and pay a
little bit more attention to those people because
honestly, those are the ones we get complaints
on”.
He emphasized reporting crimes as well as
basic crime prevention precautions such as
locking doors and windows. He asked attendees to call and report anything suspicious
or acts that endanger people or property.
He said the Department responds to a large
variety of requests for service. He recommended telling a dispatcher exactly what is happening, as specifically as possible, such as a suspect’s age, ethnicity, clothing, height, weight,
hair and vehicles.
He added that the Department is developing
options for dealing with aggressive panhandlers
and homeless persons.
The meeting, hosted by Council member Wendy McCammack, was also attended by Council
members Fred Shorett, Chas Kelley and John
Valdivida, as well as City Attorney James. F.
Penman.
Southwest: Every 4th Wednesday
Each meeting begins at 9:00am
Northwest: Every 3rd Wednesday of month
Each meeting begins at 9:00am
February 27, at Michaels at 940 W. Highland Ave.
March 27, Location TBD
April 24, Location TBD
Southeast: Every 1st Wednesday of the month
Each meeting beings at 9:00
February 6, Location TBD
March 6, Location TBD
April 3, Location TBD
February 20, Farmer Boys, 1766 W. Kendall Dr.
March 20, Farmer Boys, 1766 W. Kendall Dr.
April 17, Farmer Boys, 1766 W. Kendall Dr.
Northeast: Every 2nd Wednesday of month
Each meeting beings at 9:00am
February 13 at Denny’s, 702 E. Highland Avenue
March 13 at Denny’s, 702 E. Highland Avenue
April 10 at Denny’s, 702 E. Highland Avenue
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