Lompoc Police Department 2012 Annual Report
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Lompoc Police Department 2012 Annual Report
Lompoc Police Department 2012 Annual Report Chief Larry A. Ralston Chief’s Message Dear Mayor, City Council members, City Administrator and Residents of Lompoc, The Lompoc Police Department continues to serve our community, providing quality law enforcement to our residents, while serving with integrity, compassion and pride. The job of a Police Officer is one of the most complex professions in modern society. Officers are expected to be skilled in law, use of force procedures, report writing skills, emergency vehicle operations, and criminal investigations, just to name a few. Mission Statement “The mission of the Lompoc Police Department is to provide effective and professional police services, in partnership with the citizens we serve, encouraging mutual respect and innovative problem solving, thereby improving the quality of life in our community.” CORE VALUES OF THE LOMPOC POLICE DEPARTMENT QUALITY The quality of a police department is reflected in its people, its leadership, its reputation, and its vision. We are dedicated to selecting, developing and retaining a diverse staff of professionals who embrace excellence as their driving force and who continually strive to surpass their previous accomplishments. SERVICE The primary function of the Lompoc Police Department is to serve the public. We are committed to delivering responsive, innovative, and courteous service in an impartial manner. We encourage community input and participation in our delivery of police services. INTEGRITY We recognize that we are employed in positions of great trust, responsibility and expectation in our community. We hold ourselves to an elevated standard of conduct and accept only the highest levels of honesty and ethical behavior on the part of all our members. Our citizens deserve nothing less. COMPASSION The people we serve are individuals who possess the full range of human strengths, weaknesses, and needs. Each member of the Lompoc Police Department places a high value on being in the people business. We realize that every contact is unique and that we do not always see citizens in the most favorable circumstances. We will express concern and empathy for those who need our services. PRIDE Police work is a noble undertaking. We believe we make a difference in our community and take great pride in our accomplishments. Our members exhibit creativity, confidence and courage in meeting the daily challenges of our profession. This Department is committed to training our officers to effectively mitigate problems as they arise but also to look into the future in order to prepare for changes before they occur. Our Gang and Narcotics Enforcement Team continues to hold drug dealers and gang members accountable for their actions. In 2012 our incidence of violent gang crime has been reduced. We continue to provide our Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) to children in the 5th grade at all public schools in the city. Narcotics, especially methamphetamine, is poisoning our young generation. Our Narcotics unit is focused on seeking out those dealers supplying drugs to our residents while our patrol officers are holding users accountable for their abuse of narcotics. Our Investigations Unit finished 2012 with a case clearance ratio of more than 6 cases cleared for every 10 cases assigned. This is an impressive statistic in any law enforcement agency. Our Investigators served 54 search warrants and made 246 felony arrests this same year. Also in 2012 we saw the retirements of Officers Jon Bailey and Ron Hutchins, jointly accounting for more than 65 years of service to Lompoc. We also said farewell to Chief Timothy L. Dabney. Chief Dabney served the City of Lompoc for 15 years, the last 5 ½ as Chief of Police. He was often quoted to say, “we will take care of our community and take care of our people”, meaning our police staff. His wisdom and leadership will be missed for many years to come. Our LPD family hopes that you find this 2012 Annual Report to be informative and that it provides you a snap shot of what happens inside the walls of this Police Agency throughout the year. As our Mission Statement reads, “Our mission is to provide effective professional police services, in partnership with the citizens we serve, encouraging mutual respect and innovative problem solving, thereby improving the quality of life in our community.” Respectfully, Lawrence A. Ralston Chief of Police OPERATIONS DIVISION The Operations Division is comprised of uniformed officers who interact with the community and deliver front-line police services. The Operations Division consists of the Patrol Section, S.W.A.T., Community Services Officers, K9, Traffic Division, Community Service Section, School Resource Officers, Citizen Volunteers & Explorers. PATROL The main functions and missions of the Patrol Section are the provision of police services, preventing crimes, and protecting the citizens, businesses, and visitors of Lompoc in a professional and proactive way. The Patrol Section operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week responding to citizen-initiated calls for service, and engaging in officerinitiated activity. Some of the functions performed by members of the Patrol Section include preventive patrol, preliminary criminal investigations, traffic enforcement, response to all emergency situations, accident investigations, calls for service, and ensuring the safety and security in and around all school zones. The Patrol Section works in close partnership with other Lompoc Police Department units, governmental agencies, and community organizations to solve crime-related problems at the neighborhood level. SPECIAL WEAPONS AND TACTICS (S.W.A.T.) Special Weapons & Tactics (S.W.A.T.) is composed of officers who have received extensive training in the use of specialized weapons and tactical response. These officers serve the citizens of Lompoc by safely diffusing violent or potentially violent situations. Officers have ancillary duties on the team as marksmen and experts trained in active shooter response, high risk building entry, less lethal weaponry, chemical agents deployment, rappel master, medic and armorer. There are trained crisis negotiators that augment the S.W.A.T. team for incidents requiring crisis-negotiation skills. Each member of S.W.A.T. is required to complete over 120 hours of rigorous training annually. COMMNUNITY SERVICES OFFICERS (CSO) The primary duties of the Department’s Community Services Officers (CSO’s) are graffiti and vehicle abatement. CSO’s provides support in crime prevention, investigation, and response where full police powers are unnecessary. They also assists police officers in upholding law and order, seek out and report graffiti in our community, take noninjury/minor injury traffic collisions, and assist in department & community functions. K -9 - OFFICER DELAURETIS AND BOLT Bolt is a 3 year old male Belgian Malinois Patrol Dog. Bolt's primary job is to locate of hidden criminals and/or lost citizens. Bolt is a dog that is trained specifically to assist police and other law-enforcement personnel in their duties. TRAFFIC DIVISION The primary responsibilities of the Lompoc Police Department's Traffic Division are to make the streets of Lompoc as safe as possible for citizens and visitors traveling by foot, bicycle, or motor vehicle, to reduce traffic collisions, and improve traffic safety throughout the City of Lompoc. The Traffic Division investigates traffic collisions from minor fender benders to fatal traffic collisions, follow-up on hit and run collisions, and enforces Municipal Code and the California Vehicle Code laws. COMMUNITY SERVICES SECTION The goal of the Community Services Section is to ensure that the neighborhoods throughout the city are provided with professional and effective service, based upon their diverse needs and concerns. The Community Services Section provides crime prevention and community-oriented strategies to better serve the community. The Lompoc Police Department is engaged with citizens in developing these strategies to improve the quality of life in various neighborhoods. The Community Service Section also over sees the Lompoc Police Beat, which is a live one hour weekly crime prevention show hosted by the LPD featuring a variety of topics. G.R.E.A.T. (GANG RESISTANCE EDUCATION & TRAINING) The G.R.E.A.T. Program is a school-based, law enforcement officer-instructed classroom curriculum. With prevention as its primary objective, the program provides social tools for youth to stand against delinquency, youth violence, and gang membership. 5th graders students are reminded that their “decisions” have “outcomes” and to be safe. These youth are also taught the effects and consequences of drug and alcohol abuse. CITIZEN VOLUNTEERS Community Volunteers continue to be tremendously valuable to the operations of the Lompoc Police Department. Volunteers perform functions such as bicycle licensing, property inventory, clerical assistance at DUI check points, crime scene preservation, searches for missing children, traffic control, security checks of vacationing residents’ homes, and assistance at civic functions. The Volunteer Citizens on Patrol (V-COPS) are a specialized group of Community Volunteers who receive additional training and equipment to allow them to provide security patrols in Lompoc. LOMPOC EXPLORER POST 700 Law Enforcement Exploring also known as Police Explorers is a careeroriented program that gives young adults the opportunity to explore a career in law enforcement by working with local law enforcement agencies. Founded on July 12, 1973, it is one of the Exploring programs from Learning for Life, a non-Scouting subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America. SUPPORT SERVICES The Support Services Division Commander is responsible for investigating crimes, processing and archiving information, collecting and preserving evidence, managing the Lompoc City Jail, Police Communications (Dispatch), dispatching emergency resources and attending to visitors at the front counter/lobby. COMMUNICATIONS (DISPATCH) - 911 Lompoc Police Department’s dispatch center is the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) for all 9-1-1 emergency services for the City of Lompoc. The center is manned by two dispatchers, 24 hours a day. Our dispatch center also provides call taking and dispatching services for the Lompoc Fire Department and for all the City of Lompoc Utilities departments and Urban Forestry Division for their afterhours emergencies. POLICE RECORDS SECTION The Records Section and Property Unit of the Lompoc Police Department are responsible for a myriad of duties to include the dissemination of police reports to the public and other agencies such as the District Attorney, Child Welfare Services, Adult Protective Services, Probation and Parole. Further tasks include typing of dictated police reports, scanning of documents related to police reports, and the process of registering narcotic and sex offenders. The front desk operation is a vital part of the Department as they are often the first point of contact with our agency by citizens. Interns assigned to the Records Section perform data entry tasks, Live Scan fingerprinting, weekly shopping for the jail, maintaining supplies from the City warehouse, assisting at the weekly Lompoc Police Beat TV show, as well as other duties as assigned. PROPERTY UNIT The Lompoc Police Department’s Property Unit is responsible for the receipt and storage of all property and evidence (excluding vehicles) which are retained by Departmental personnel, and assuring the extremely important chain of custody for the prosecution of criminal cases. Other property processed can include found property and property seized for safekeeping. LOMPOC CITY JAIL The Lompoc City Jail is a Type I jail facility (96-hours maximum stay – no sentenced prisoners) and has a rated capacity of 23 prisoners at any given time. There are 19 beds and a sobering cell capable of holding four additional arrestees. The Lompoc City Jail receives bookings not only from LPD Officers, but from outside agencies, such as the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department, Probation Department and State Parole. The Lompoc City Jail is manned 24 hours a day all year around. CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS Detectives assigned to the Lompoc Police Department’s Investigations Section are multi-talented and responsible for the investigation of major crimes and felonies. They take over any complicated investigations assigned originally to patrol. They also investigate crimes against persons and property, as well as high-tech / forensic crimes involving photos, computers or digital media, cellular devices, and finger prints used as evidence. This unit also works closely with the F.B.I. and other agencies in Southern California on a task force to combat internet crimes against children (ICAC). The detective unit also investigates domestic violence cases. This aggressive unit investigates approximately 300 Domestic Violence cases each year, serves survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault as well as conducts training for law enforcement, the public, and community outreach. They also investigate Drug Endangered Children (D.E.C.) cases and are responsible to registering sex offenders. GANG – NARCOTICS ENFORCEMENT TEAM (G-NET) The Lompoc Gang and Narcotics Enforcement Team has a team of detectives to conduct narcotics and gang investigations. The Gang Unit is tasked with investigating crimes associated with gang members involving graffiti, assaults, robbery and homicide. The City of Lompoc is currently the only community in the central coast that has a gang injunction in place. GNET, in conjunction with the patrol officers, regularly patrol the injunction area of the city and contact gang members. Gang members found not in compliance with the court order are subject to arrest. SANTA BARBARA REGIONAL NARCOTICS ENFORCEMENT TEAM (SBRNET) The Lompoc Police Department assigns one detective to the Santa Barbara Regional Narcotics Enforcement Team (SBRNET). This team conducts major narcotics investigations throughout Santa Barbara County in an effort to eliminate major narcotics traffickers that poison our communities. Lompoc Police Department Lompoc PD — Part 1 Crimes 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 10 Yr. Avg. Homicide 0 0 1 3 3 1 3 1 2 3 1.7 Rape 24 16 13 18 21 18 17 22 28 16 19.3 Robbery 44 41 39 42 28 28 41 26 21 27 33.7 Aggravated Assault 157 176 167 172 219 232 297 262 224 176 208.0 Burglary 226 244 155 189 178 181 225 154 232 312 209.6 Grand Theft 153 234 221 207 155 176 196 209 198 196 194.5 Vehicle Theft 74 105 88 75 56 49 47 51 47 67 65.8 Arson 28 20 13 5 4 9 21 16 26 14 15.6 Felony SubTotal 706 836 697 711 664 694 847 741 778 811 748.5 Assault 400 468 453 574 483 345 325 317 314 384 406.3 Petty Larceny 522 810 719 572 469 401 487 518 494 591 551.1 TOTAL PART 1 CRIMES 1,628 2,114 1,869 1,857 1,616 1,440 1,659 1,576 1,586 1,786 1,713.1 2003 2500 2004 2005 2000 2006 1500 2007 Year 2008 1000 500 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 LOMPOC POLICE DEPARTMENT 2012 AWARDS Sworn Employee of the Year Detective Vincent Magallon Ellen McCaslin Award Sheila Davis LOMPOC POLICE DEPARTMENT NEW EMPLOYEES 2012 Non Sworn Employee of the Year Sandi Bailey Officer Neil Patel M.A.D.D. & Avoid the 12 Award Officer Eric Andreasen H. Thomas Guerry Award for Superior Performance Sgt Chuck Strange M.A.D.D. & Avoid the 12 Award Officer Mauricio Calderon Officer Charles Scott Citizen of the Year Mr. Blake Leiting Volunteer of the Year Award Tom Johnson Officer David Magana Police Explorer Recognition Veronica Cubillo Officer Michael Miller Officer & Rookie of the Year Officer Neil Patel H. THOMAS GUERRY AWARD FOR VALOR Jailer Sean Allen Officer Dan Sessions Officer Willy Francis Agent Scott Morgan CSO Dominique Torres Lompoc Police Department Retirees OFFICER RON HUTCHINS Officer Ron Hutchins retired from the Lompoc Police Department on April 25, 2012, after 2 years of reserve officer service and 36 years of full-time service. OFFICER JON BAILEY Officer Jon Bailey retired on 6-15-12 after dedicating his services to the citizens of Lompoc for 29 years as a Peace Officer with the Lompoc Police Department. Chief Timothy L. Dabney Chief Dabney retired on 8-14-12 after serving the City of Lompoc for 16 years, five–and-a-half years serving as Chief. Chief Dabney serviced a total of 30 years as a dedicated Peace Officer. Code of Ethics As a Law Enforcement Officer, my fundamental duty is to serve humanity; to safeguard lives and property; to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation, and the peaceful against violence or disorder; and to respect the Constitutional right of all people to liberty, equality and justice. I will keep my private life unsullied as an example to all and will behave in a manner which brings credit to myself and my agency. I will maintain courageous calm in the face of danger, scorn, or ridicule; develop self-restraint; and be constantly mindful of the welfare of others. Honest in thought and deed in both my personal and official life, I will be exemplary in obeying the law, and the regulations of my department. Whatever I see or hear of a confidential nature or that is confided to me in my official capacity will be kept ever secret unless revelation is necessary in the performance of my duty. I will never act officiously or permit personal bias, prejudices, political beliefs, animosities, aspirations, or friendships to improperly influence my decisions. I will always remember my shared humanity and will cultivate an attitude of compassion, respect, and empathy toward all peoples. With no compromise for crime and with relentless prosecution of criminals, I will enforce the laws courteously and appropriately without fear or favor, malice or ill will, never employing unnecessary force or violence and never accepting gratuities. I will never engage in acts of bribery nor will I condone such acts by others. I will cooperate with all legally constituted agencies and their representatives, in the pursuit of justice and the maintenance of integrity in law enforcement. I recognize the badge of my office as a symbol of public faith, and I accept it as a public trust to be held only so long as I am true to the ethics of the police service. I will constantly strive to achieve these objectives and ideals, dedicating myself before all I hold sacred, to my chosen profession....law enforcement. Lompoc Police Department 107 Civic Center Plaza Lompoc, CA 93436 PUBLIC HOURS Hours Address Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm 107 Civic Center Plaza Lompoc, CA 93436 Department Phone Number Area Code 805 Primary Phone Number 736-2341 Fax Number 735-8256 Chief of Police 875-8107 Administration 875-8107 Records Bureau 736-2341 Investigation Bureau 875-8120 Narcotics Unit 875-8120 Dispatch Center 736-2341 Jail 875-8140 Patrol Watch Commander 736-2341 Evidence and Property 875-8134 Community Services 875-8155 Volunteer Unit 875-8153 G.R.E.A.T. 875-8158 Special Enforcement Team 736-2341 K-9 Unit 736-2341 Email Address [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Hot Line - Anonymous Tips 736-0519 Web Site http://www.cityoflompoc.com/Police/ Other Important Phone Numbers: Emergencies - Police, Fire or Medical: Lompoc City Hall: Lompoc Animal Control: Lompoc Municipal Court: Lompoc Sheriff's Station: District Attorney, Lompoc: Calif. Highway Patrol, Buellton: Cal Trans Highway Conditions: 9-1-1 736-1261 737-7755 737-7790 737-7737 737-7760 688-5551 543-9544 Photos by: Debbie Oliver, Ed Lardner, Michael Collins, & Eric Andreasen QUICK OVERVIEW OF FUNCTIONS AND PROGRAMS LAW ENFORCEMENT Patrol Operations Traffic (Motors) K-9 Patrol Investigations Section Gang-Narcotics Enforcement Team (GNET) SBRNET (Santa Barbara Regional Narcotics Enforcement Team) Special Enforcement Team (SWAT) Professional Standards Unit COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Lompoc Citizens’ Police Academy Police Explorers Lompoc Police Beat Television Program Lompoc Junior Police Camp National Night Out Special Olympics Lompoc Service Extension of the Salvation Army PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION Gang Resistance Education And Training (GREAT) School Resource Officers Police Activities League (PAL) Graffiti Eradication Team Gang Injunction Crimes Against Women Investigation and Advocacy Crime Free Multi-Housing Program Community Oriented Policing Program Volunteer Unit - VCOPS (Volunteer Citizens On Patrol) GRANT FUNDED PROGRAMS Enhanced Seatbelt Enforcement Enhanced DUI Enforcement COPS Hiring Program Bulletproof Vest Program Sheriff Booking Contract COPS Technology Grant Blank Page