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department responsive to your needs and concerns.We For those that have departed the ranks of the will continually strive to earn your trust,reduce crime, Mashpee Police Department, we salute them for a job and provide exceptional services while always treating well done and wish them well in their future endeavors. you with dignity and respect. This is our commitment As new employees fill the ranks,I have full confidence to. you: We will be focused on your safety, while they will continue to protect and serve our community focusing on an open and transparent organization. We to the best of their ability. will be organized and diligent on accomplishing the basic objective of reducing crime with a customer Finally, I would also like to extend my service approach. appreciation to the fine men and women that make up the Mashpee Police Department.They are the ones that To accomplish these objectives,we will embrace answer the call day in and day out and are truly a community-based, problem-oriented, policing dedicated to the professional standards that build strategy that covers a five-year span. This five year respect in our overall delivery of services. strategic plan emphasizes integrity,accountability,and the use of problem-solving techniques. These Respectfully submitted, objectives will be quantifiable. They will assist us in Scott W. Carline measuring the results of our interventions, holding Chief of Police ourselves accountable; to each other and to our Polygraph Examiner community. What we hope for in return is a collaboration between the police and the community to keep our Report of the communities safe. Safe neighborhoods are the result Department of Public Works of the community and their police department working together. We have a mutual obligation to do our respective parts.I pledge that we will take your needs, To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the issues, and concerns seriously, and respond to them Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: appropriately. In 2015, the Department of Public Works As we move forward our key focus points will be performed its normal operations for maintaining the to build morale and a positive working environment town roads, buildings, and properties including while balancing the necessity of accountability for a Heritage Park,South Cape Beach,the Transfer Station, productive working team environment. I truly believe and the cemeteries. that our unique commitment to the betterment of this department in addition to a collective effort to provide Below are highlights of several specific activities effective and efficient police services will deliver during the past year. productive results that can truly make a difference in this community's quality of life. Road Projects Santuit Pond Road in the Santuit Pond In 2015 the Mashpee Police Department saw neighborhood,a portion of Tracy Lane off Great Neck many new employees join our agency as well as several Road North,and the one-way section of Old Barnstable leave. The resignation with the most significant impact Road were reconstructed. All three projects were on the police department was the retirement of former funded through the DPW Operational Budget. Chief of Police and current Mashpee Town Manager Rodney Collins. I would like to acknowledge and Construction associated with conversion of the extend my appreciation to Chief Collins for his ten and following private roads to public roads was completed: one half years of dedicated service as Chief of Police. Saddleback Road, Jonas Drive, Valerie Circle, and He has paved a tremendous path for all of us to follow Rachelle Court. Work began on Sunset Strip,another and has left a lasting legacy on this entire organization. conversion that was approved at the October Town My former Chief can stand proud knowing that we will Meeting. continue to serve the citizens of Mashpee with pride and integrity. 122