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s Breakdown of Sworn Police Personnel By V Division g � P t, 2 i Command h r " n ? ■ Administration o ❑ Operations 33 e people supervising than being supervised. As you can Mashpee officers continue to be proactive in zr clearly see from the chart below, this is not the case their traffic safety/enforcement duties. During 2004 d here in Mashpee. the officers of the Mashpee Police Department issued .e 656 traffic citations and 3,480 written and verbal .e In addition, to the Department's sworn police warnings for a variety of motor vehicle offenses. st officers and civilian clerical staff, we have a profes- Additionally, the Massachusetts Registry of Motor .e sional and dedicated compliment of eight civilian dis- Vehicles indicates that over$27,000.00 in motor vehi- is patchers. These individuals staff our dispatch center cle fines was returned to the Town's General Fund as on a continuous basis, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. a result of officer's enforcement actions. This year, 73 r These eight men and women of the dispatch center arrests were made for drunken driving. It is important 1 �d provide the only"live"point of contact in town for cit- for our officers to continue their proactive motor vehi- it 1e izens at any hour of the day and any day of the year. cle law enforcement because of its educational impact and positive effects on safety. Those positive effects 1e The ebb and flow of crime is an ongoing, cycli- were seen this year when our Accident Investigation le cal process, and the downturn in serious crime in and Reconstruction Unit investigated did not have to 's Mashpee has been mirroring the national trend of investigate any fatal motor vehicle crashes, a decrease t0 reduced crime rates. The on-going debate between from last year. This specialized unit also assisted in �facademicians and criminal justice professionals over many of the other 78 personal injury accidents. The j why crime increases and deceases will continue with total number of accidents investigated was 584. le no definitive answer.However, all parties participating a in the debate agree that more police officers,increased The Criminal Investigation Section handled 423 ie crime prevention efforts, proactive law enforcement cases requiring in-depth special investigations. Some rs operations, taxpayer support of the police budget, a of the highlighted cases included 51 drug investiga- relatively stable economy and unemployment rate, a tions, 19 sexual assaults, 32 credit card/check fraud declining population of juvenile offenders, longer cases, 6 arsons, 123 larcenies. Detectives furthered In prison sentences, and community policing activities their training in response to domestic violence investi- a are all key factors in driving down the crime rate. As gations, sexual assaults,drug law violations,photogra- as an illustration, the Part I Offenses (violent crime and phy, cyber crime investigations, and unified command id r major property crimes) decreased overall b approxi- training. le mately 19.5% this year and 25% last year, while Part j Is U Offenses (all other crime) showed a slight overall During the past year the Mashpee Police increase of 4.2%. However, at the close of 2004, the Department has continued to utilize volunteers to aug- rn Police Department's request for services and reported ment paid staff. The Mashpee Police Department con- �n incidents totaled 32.783 an increase of 1,815, (5.9% tinues to function with no full time clerical support re increase) over last years total of 30,968. staff and has been utilizing volunteers to expand the increasing administrative and clerical needs of the 1 I 07