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Report of the Report of the Board of Registrars Police Department To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the Citizens of Mashpee: Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: The following is the yearly report from the Board of I am very pleased to submit to the Board of Registrars. Selectmen and the citizens of Mashpee, my fourteenth annual report as Chief of Police. Town Meetings: MISSION: The mission of the Mashpee Police Special Town Meeting- May 3, 1993 Department has been to provide the Town of Mashpee Registered Voters: 5361 with the highest quality of professional police services Attendance: 421 -- 8% to effectively address the incident of criminal activity and service needs of the total community; to encour- Annual Town Meeting -May 3, 1993 age interaction between the citizens of Mashpee and Registered Voters: 5349 personnel of the Mashpee Police Department, thereby Attendance: 421 - 8% promoting a cohesive environment designed to coun- teract the negative social influences that contribute to Annual Town Meeting - October 4, 1993 an apathetic setting where criminal and other antiso- Registered Voters: 5318 cial behavior is propagated. } Attendance: 279 -- 5% The Police Department has made a concerted effort Special Town Meeting - December 4, 1993 to implement the philosophy of community policing Registered Voters: 5312 within the Police Department organizational structure, t Attendance: 652 - 12.5% thereby forming a strong working relationship with the i neighborhood groups and businesses within the Town . Elections: of Mashpee. The Department and the citizens of Mashpee have made great strides during 1992 and Annual Town Election - May 8, 1993 1993 in adopting community policing as a goal. The Registered Voters: 5349 Town of Mashpee and its Police Department are Total Votes Cast: 1684- 32% strongly positioned to emerge in 1994 and 1995 as one of the first and definitely the best in Barnstable County r. Special Election - December 11, 1993 to initiate an implementation of community policing. Registered Voters-, 5 312 Total Votes Cast: 837 - 15%a CRIMINAL ACTIVITY: It has been another busy r year for the Department. Calls for services rose 5.1%; 770 more calls than the previous year. The good news A special thanks to all who counted votes at all our is that Part I Crimes in Mashpee have been reduced by i Elections, especially the December 4, 1993 Special 398. The number of burglaries investigated dropped Town Meeting. from 261 in 1992 to 167 in 1993, and larcenies from a 506 to 296. It appears that the combined efforts of the ' Respectfully submitted, newly formed Upper Cape Cod Burglary Task Force, Cape Cod Drug Task Force, officers of the Mashpee Paula L. Soltis, Chair Police Department and concerned citizens of Susan Van Tvl Mashpee, have turned the tide on the rising crime rate p s g Karen V. Walden in Mashpee. It is hoped that as community olicin Jane D. Labute, Clerk p p y P g Mash spreads throughout the Town, the crime rate will con- pee hoard of�2egastrars tinue to decline. Part II Crimes as listed in this report have risen 29.9%, but the overall crime rate dropped, by 22.4% POLICE PERSONNEL ACTIONS: Patrolmen Matthew Clancy, Gerry Umina and Michael Lacava have been promoted to sergeant. Good luck to each. Detective Doris Dottridge is now assigned as a full- time School/Juvenile Liaison Officer for the Kenneth 71