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Report of the safe place in which to live and work. Within the p department, the credit for continued success under Police Department trulydifficult conditions must o to our police officers g "on the street", who are working hard to provide a To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the front-line defense for us against crime in our town. Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: PERSONNEL ACTIONS: During 1994, Officers I am very pleased to submit to the Board of Randy DeMello and Christopher Hamilton resigned Selectmen and the citizens, my first annual report as from the department. Chief of Police. COMMUNICATIONS: Our Public Safety MISSION: The mission of the Mashpee Police Communications Center begins its fifth year as a con- Department has been to provide the Town of Mashpee trol point of all Police, Fire, Emergency Medical with the highest quality of professional police services Services, and Civil Defense for our community. to effectively address the incident of criminal activity Continued success of that very complex operation and service needs of the total community; to encour- must be directly attributed to our Public Safety age interaction between the citizens of Mashpee and Dispatchers. In June of 1995, the Town is expected to personnel of the Mashpee Police Department, thereby implement our new 9-1-1 emergency number, with promoting a cohesive environment designed to coun- calls initially going through the Barnstable County teract the negative social influences that contribute to Communications Center,where calls for Mashpee will an apathetic setting where criminal and other antiso- be relayed quickly to our Public Safety Dispatchers. cial behavior is propagated. As the new service arrives, we will be involved in helping to educate our citizens concerning this new COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES: The Police service, which will be of great benefit to all. Department continued with concerted efforts during the past year to implement the philosophy of On behalf of the department, I would like to thank Community Policing throughout the town with the all of the Town's officials and employees for assis- goal of forming effective working relationships with tance to us during 1994. A special thank you goes to neighborhood groups, schools, and businesses within all of our citizen-customers and voters for your much the Town of Mashpee. The department and the citi- appreciated support in 1994. Finally, as you know, tens of Mashpee made great strides in 1992 and 1993 Chief Curtis Frye retired in early 1995 and I was pnv- when they adopted Community Policing as a goal. ileged to be appointed as his successor. I pledge that I The Town and the Police Department continued devel- will work very hard on behalf of all of the citizens of opment toward that goal in 1994 and should emerge Mashpee as Chief of Police. I am looking forward to within the next two years as one of Barnstable fulfilling my responsibilities to every member of our County's leaders in the implementation of this very community and am anxious to receive any input that important partnership between community and police. will help me to serve you better. I know that we will continue our tradition of providing service to the town CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES: 1994 was another busy at an outstanding level that has become an expected year for the Police Department. Despite notable standard due to efforts of Chief Frye and many other staffing shortages throughout the year as a result of dedicated employees over the years. injuries received by several of our police officers, there was a consistent high level of calls for service. A Respectfully submitted, significant decrease was logged in directed patrol William C. Prz b lek cases, which were reduced due to those personnel y y Chief of Police shortages. Although decreases were noted in several Part I violent crime categories and others showed little Appointment h Selectmen Year o Tire or no change,there was a marked increase from 167 to PP ` 1994 208 in Burglary. The same general trends were seen in Part II crime categories,although Vandalism increased Chief of Police from 236 to 287. I believe some of the two foregoing Curtis W. Frye 1965 increases might be attributed to a greater emphasis in the reporting of incidents by citizens due to the efforts Deputy Chief of Police in the area of Community Policing. With regard to Maurice A. Cooper, Jr. 1975 overall crime trends in our town, it appears that those same effective partnerships in the community resulted Sergeants in only a minimal rise in our crime rates from 1993. Ronald R Bevacqua 1979 Our statistics reflect that our town continues to be a William J. Ethier 1978 Matthew M. Clancy 1955 81