Brownsburg Police Dept Phone 317-852-1107 31 North Green Street Dispatch 317-852-1100 Brownsburg, IN 46112 Fax 317-858-2023 Major Joseph Grimes

MARCH 2016

MONTHLY SUPPORT REPORT

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CHIEF OF POLICE &

BROWNSBURG POLICE COMMISSION

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Brownsburg Police Department

The following information contained within this report summarizes information deemed pertinent for dissemination from Major Joseph Grimes. -Investigations -Records -Community Relations -Public Information -Purchasing

-Information & Technology -Human Resources -Training -Emergency Response Team

Investigations

The Investigations Division received 40 new cases in the month of March, closed and/or suspended 14 cases, and closed 3 cases with arrests. Capt. Barrett began investigating a new child pornography case on a local suspect this month. Search warrants and Intel are still being gathered. Capt. Barrett continues to spend the majority of her investigatory time investigating an ICAC case with local, state, and federal agencies. As a recap of this investigation, this case was adopted as an ICAC case on December 16th, 2015, in which the suspect made terroristic threats towards the victim and three communities within Hendricks County. Capt. Barrett continues to work a joint investigation with the UDTF for a child prostitution, child molestation, and child exploitation case. Capt. Barrett continues to assist the Pittsboro Police Chief on a serious bodily injury battery to an infant investigation. Sgt. Bass is investigating a child abuse case. A six month old suffered a bone fracture that is an injury that is uncommon for that age. Sgt. Bass is attempting to complete interviews and collect evidence for the case. Sgt. Bass attended Interviewing and Understanding Sexual Deviant Behavior training this month. Cpl. Stanford continues to investigate credit card frauds that result in the card numbers being used to produce another physical card. Most are being perpetrated out of the country. Few are being used locally. Counterfeit money investigations are increasing as well. Det. McCoy made an arrest for theft and forgery this month. A local business reported that 5 checks had been stolen from the business and cashed in Marion County, Indiana. Det. McCoy was able to identify the suspect and obtain an admission to the crime. He continues to investigate two child molest cases that will require screening from the Hendricks County Prosecutor.

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Det. Wells was able to solve one more theft case from a local residential home for assisted living. This resulted in two more charges being filed against the former employee of the business. The property owner was able to receive some of her stolen property back. CSI Stewart processed 188 pieces of evidence, returned 4 pieces of property, processed 2 crime scenes, and disposed of 4 pieces of evidence. Stewart had 3 trips to the ISP lab, and researched dispositions. Stewart began assisting Sgt. Fleck with the upcoming summer camps and transported evidence to property owners. Administrative Assistant Belinda Sharkey scanned 160 documents into LaserFiche, researched 21 court dispositions, returned 1 piece of property, attended two training board meetings, ordered supplies, and prepared a discovery binder. Sharkey also covered for the Chief’s executive Assistant for a week, and processed 14 court subpoenas and answered the phones. PROSECUTOR UPDATE: During the first two months of 2016, the Hendricks County Prosecutor’s Office had five jury trials. As a result of these jury trials, there were three guilty verdicts and two found not guilty. There have been seven robbery cases filed with the Prosecutor’s Office, which puts their office on a pace of potentially prosecuting 42 robberies this year if the trend continues. Also there have been seven burglary cases filed during the first two months of the year. The United Drug Task Force has made seven controlled buys of heroin and/or meth. Prosecutor’s Office disposed of 30 Operating While Intoxicated (OWI) cases in February. All plead to OWI, for a conviction rate of 100 percent. So far for the year, they have disposed of 68 OWI cases. All have pleaded to the OWI for a conviction rate of 100 percent for 2016. On March 28th, the Hendricks County Prosecutor’s Office made notification that the Federal Government had resumed Equitable Sharing effective on this date as it relates to forfeitures and seizures. Records

Throughout the month of March, Records personnel continued to focus on processing electronic pre-application submissions (349 total) until the deadline of March 25th. Following the application phase, Kim Shupert met with Executive Staff on March 28th to determine the number of applicants to be invited to test. Immediately following the meeting, Records Staff began emailing and drafting formal testing invitation and information letters with all being completed. The formal testing invitation and information letters were both emailed and mailed by Tuesday, March 29th. Testing was scheduled to take place April 9th beginning at 8:00 a.m. Amanda Bultman completed her first quarter of employment with the department on March 1st and received a probationary evaluation with favorable results. She continues to do great work as a Records Assistant and has acclimated quite well.

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Kim Shupert, along with Major Joseph Grimes, attended a Public Access training webinar hosted by the Town on Wednesday, March 16th. The Records Department is currently reviewing its procedures in this area and consulting with Jayson Marksberry in regards to best practices. In the month of March, the Records Department entered 82 hand-written citations or warnings, processed 11 public access requests, 18 criminal history requests, 47 gun permit applications, 194 alarm permit transactions, 5 rider requests, and 17 sets of fingerprints. Fees generated totaled $4,325.00. Below is a breakdown of the collected fees:

� Accident Reports $30.00 � Incident Reports $20.00 � Gun Permits $2,070.00 � Notary Fees $0.00 � Criminal Histories $95.00 � Fingerprints $60.00 � Alarm Transactions $2,050.00 � Vehicle Inspections $0.00

Community Relations

With June quickly approaching, Sgt. Fleck has been advertising and making preparations for the 2016 Police and Fire Summer Day Camps (Flyer on Right). There are two sessions being offered this year with 40 participants allocated for each session. This allows for interaction with Police and Fire Personnel of 80 children between the ages of 8 to 13 years of age. Both the Session 1 (June 13th-17th) and Session 2 (June 20th-24th) are reportedly full, based upon registrations submitted at the time this report was generated. Sgt. Fleck’s monthly activities during the month of March included the following:

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� March 2nd- Crime Watch, tour of the Hendricks County Jail

� March 3rd- Self-defense for the staff of Westside Garden Plaza, senior living

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� March 7th- Crime Watch for Ironwood Homeowners Assoc.

� March 9th- Instructing Defensive Tactics

� March 9th- Women’s Self-defense

� March 13th-8 year old police birthday party at Eaton Hall

� March 16th- Explorer Meeting

� March 17th- Self-defense for Connection Pointe

� March 18th- Cub Scout tour of police department

� March 19th- Easter Egg Hunt at Arbuckle Acre

� March 26th- Explorer meeting focusing on verbal judo

� March 30th- Self-defense at Sheltering Wings

� Court security on Wednesday’s

� Juvenile information sent to database before March 10th

Public Information

The department had 8 media contacts during the month of March. The contacts were in relation to a series ID Discovery Channel has of “Women in Prison.” In addition to the media releases there were three inquiries by media in relation to releases stated above. The department also released 10 Facebook posts and 2 Facebook Crime Tips post. Current subscriber lists report the following number of members:

3413 3636 3663

4192 4218 4292

1291 1335 1364

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$4,000,000

$6,000,000$5,821,134

$1,455,284

$1,162,118

$293,166

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Purchasing

As of February 29, 2016, the department expended 19.96% of its budget. We are slightly under projected budget at this time.

Information Technology

Lt. Depinet had been preparing for the installation of the body and police vehicle camera software scheduled for April 5th and 6th. Lt. Depinet was trained on the system on April 6th along with other Executive Staff members; however, Lt. Depinet shall be responsible for training all officers on the use and storage of the equipment and files. Lt. Depinet continues to attend meetings for the CAD project. Human Resources

On March 17, 2016, the Brownsburg Police Pension Board held a meeting to review and approve the 1977 INPRS Application of Sworn Police Officer Applicant, Mark Christian. The board approved said application, and the documentation has been forwarded to the Indiana Public Retirement Services for final approval. On April 4th, INPRS provided notice that Mark Christian has been approved for hire. Town Clerk, Ann Hathaway, swore Mark Christian (Photo shown on right) in as Full-time Officer on Friday, April 8th, after serving as a Reserve Officer with the Brownsburg Police Department since 2013. Mark’s official date of hire and first day on shift has been set for Monday, April 18th. The application submission for the 2016 Full-time Sworn Police Officer Recruitment ended on midnight Friday, March 25th. A total of 349 applications were received, of which 61 applicants were disqualified based upon standard disqualifiers by departmental policy and 3 had deficiencies (lacked information) that made them unable to be processed on their applications and were told to re-apply, but never resubmitted a new application. The remaining 285 applicants have been invited to the next phase of the process (Physical Agility and Written Exam) that shall be conducted on April 9th. Emails and follow up

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letters have been sent to both the applicants invited to test and those that have been disqualified. As of April 8th, 126 of the applicants invited to test have RSVP’d with their intent to attend the Physical Agility and Written Exam. Training

On March 28, 2016, Chief Michael Dove reviewed and provided response to Training Coordinator, Sgt. Andy Watts, pertaining to Sgt. Watt’s proposal related to recommended Training and Community Outreach Programs for 2016. Upon review by the Chief of Police, support of Legal Counsel, and our Insurance Carrier, Chief has approved for Sgt. Watts to move forward with developing and/or finalizing the lesson plans and curriculums for training titled as Spouses’ Weapon Familiarization and the Civilian Academy. One said training is to provide firearms safety and knowledge to the spouses of our Sworn Police Officers of the Brownsburg Police Department, and the other to provide community members that attend an idea of what the Brownsburg Police Department does as an agency and how we do it. March began with a Brownsburg Police Department (BPD) Training Committee meeting on March 1st to discuss upcoming requests and training goals for the month. On March 4th, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General utilized the mat area of the training bay for its quarterly defensive tactics training. This generated revenue in the amount of $180. Also, on March 4th Sgt. Watts met with IMPD representative to finalize a training class for Officer Involved Shooting response to be hosted in April. On March 8th, the Central Indiana Law Enforcement Training Council (CILETC) met for lunch to discuss the upcoming CILETC sponsored trainings. On March 9th the BPD hosted its first session of the state mandated physical tactics for BPD personnel. These sessions will be held quarterly to accommodate BPD personnel and help alleviate the end of the year rush to get all state sponsored trainings complete. In addition, on March 9th the US HHS conducted its quarterly firearms training using the BPD Indoor Range. This generated revenue in the amount of $200. On March 11th, the Indiana Department of Correction (DOC) Emergency Response Unit utilized the training house for ½ day of in-service. On March 14th, Sgt. Watts and Sgt. Klayer met with Executive Staff to discuss upcoming Officer Involved Shooting training for the BPD supervisors and patrol officers. On March 15th, the BPD Emergency Response Team conducted its monthly training at the facility and at Connection Pointe Christian Church using available bus, car, and parking lot for vehicle take downs and response. On March 16th, Sgt. Watts met with several interested candidates for the chaplain program. The vision and goals of the program were discussed along with expectations in fulfilling the role. Several interested applicants were provided with a background link and made aware of the procedure for submitting interest to the agency. This will be a growing program and promises to be a valuable resource to the officers and their families of the BPD. On March 17th, the US IRS Criminal Division utilized the shoothouse at the training facility. This utilization generated revenue in the amount of $180. On March 18th, the US IRS criminal Division utilized the indoor range at the training facility. This utilization generated revenue in the amount of $200. On March 23rd, two of the new reserve officers

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(Hernandez and Beringer) conducted their initial firearms qualification since joining the BPD. On March 24th, the Avon PD conducted its first quarterly firearms qualification using the indoor range. This utilization was traded out for ammunition to the BPD. Also on the 24th the Central Indiana Law Enforcement Training Council (CILETC) conducted its monthly meeting at the facility to discuss upcoming training opportunities. Finally on March 28th-31st, the newest reserve for the BPD Ryan Rowley, conducted his 40 hour pre-basic refresher training through the State of Indiana. This training was conducted at BPD Training Facility under the instruction of Sgt. Watts and Sgt. Fleck. Topics covered included criminal law, ethics, use of force, police procedure, emergency vehicle operations, firearms qualifications, and many others. Reserve Officer Rowley now is assigned to the FTO program under the direction of Sgt. Fultz to complete his initial training with the BPD. Several upcoming training opportunities will present themselves during the month of April, which promises to be another very busy training month for the BPD. Emergency Response Team

Operators of the Emergency Response Team conducted their regularly scheduled monthly training. Through individual and team training exercises throughout the month, operators continue to maintain a heightened level of prepared readiness if the need so arises. Operators did train during the month on a new weapon platform,

UMP45, that the team is now in possession of three such

weapons for deployment. Team Commander, Major Joseph Grimes, consulted with a mutual aid agency related to the conduction of a warrant service. While the circumstances did not meet the standards of the criteria set to justify a team deployment, tactics and techniques were discussed to safely take the person into custody on the active warrant, in which the person in question was served the warrant and since posted bond.

Respectfully Submitted,Respectfully Submitted,Respectfully Submitted,Respectfully Submitted,

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