North Division

Patrol Bureau
Goals Accomplishments Responsible Party - Lead Division / Unit / Section Funding Status
Dec-20 Jan-21 Feb-21
North - Maintain an annual clearance rate for North Division Property Crimes Unit of 20%.

The North Division property crime clearance rate for December was 9.6%

The North Division property crime clearance rate for January was 7.1% 

Property crime clearance rate for February was 17%.
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    North - Organize monthly meetings with businesses and commercial stakeholders in North Division to share information related to crime trends and foster collaborative relationships.

    All meetings and community events were cancelled due to emergency declaration and social distancing requirements by the City, State and Department protocol.

    Commander Fimbres communicated with Tanger Outlet management via email regarding crime and upcoming events and met with them on Jan 20th at the sector. 

    Communicaton with businesses continues to be conducted via email and phone.  Met with Tanger Outlet representatives who donated $1500 to North Division.
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    North - Ensure complainants receive a callback on all cases within 72 hours and document in Records Management System.

    Contact with crime victims are being made within 72 hours on assigned cases.

    Contact with crime victims are being made within 72 hours on assigned cases.

    Contact with crime victims are being made within 72 hours on assigned cases
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    North - Establish and maintain positive and trusting community relationships by increasing the number of community forums by six per year.

    Large forums are still restricted but smaller community meetings continued this month within neighborhood meetings such as Park Glen, Sendera Ranch, Heritage, Northbrook.  

    There were no large forums this month as restrictions continue. The NPOs continue smaller scale meetings with individuals or single HOAs/businesses/schools. This month officers met with the Western Center business group  (E11/F17) with CPS Mendoza.

    No community forums this month due to restrictions but other methods of relationships through smaller groups such as Apt manager meeting on F13, 2 Food Bank drive on F15 and E11.
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    North - Solicit employee (sworn and civilian) and community input in creative ways to address ongoing crime problems by establishing and facilitating focus groups four times per year with employees and community members.

    NPOs continue to meet with Property Crimes on a regular basis.  Group meeting with new Property Crime Detective Nelson about recent trends.  NPOs assisted with getting Flock camera system into Chisolm Ridge neighborhood.

    The NPOs met with the Property Crimes unit and discussed year-end crime stats compared to 2019 totals.  The NPOs also discussed the ongoing hot spot for the division. 

    NPO had meeting to discuss recent crime trend problems with Property Crimes to include the recent catalytic converter thefts, got suspect info to our Code Blue patrollers to watch for suspect vehicle.
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    North - Address neighborhood quality of life issues proactively by identifying neighborhoods that require mowing, alley way clearance, bulk trash pick-up, sealing and condemnation of dilapidated homes.

    The main quality of life issue concerning North Division continues to  be the soliciting from roadway.  Several zero tolerance details conducted by NPO Hernandez and NPO Byrd during the month with a dozen GCs issued to violators.  Violators offered HOPE team but continue to refuse.

    North division complaints about quality of life issues are dominated by parking complaints.  The NPOs wrote 34 parking citations in January and addressed 12 abandoned vehicle complaints.

    Main North division quality of life issue is the panhandling at the major intersections along Beach and along North Freeway, due to bad weather this was down dramatically this month.  NPOs assisted in shelter details at Convention Center during winter storm.
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    North - Develop a Crime Action Plan (CAP) committee to meet monthly consisting of supervisory and officer-level representatives from each shift (and NPOs).

    Monthly meeting with North CIU/Property Crimes conducted with the NPOs.  Due to good communication and video surveillance links, several warrants written for the recent construction thefts.   Also during the month an SOF detail combatting overnight BMVs and Auto Thefts conducted Thurs-Fri-Sat nights for 3 weeks in a row.

    Regular meetings continue between NPOs, patrol, the Property Crime Unit, and other outside units  including  CIT.

    Monthly meeting between Property Crimes and NPOs continued this month, with information exchanged about recent crime trends. 2/23/21
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    North - Collaborate with organizations that serve homeless individuals and vulnerable populations to provide them guidance, and assistance with obtaining resources. NPOs will identify and establish relationships with the facilities on their beats and participate / assist with the facility needs. NPO’s will provide monthly stats on the number of persons who benefit from placement in work programs and/or obtain housing assistance.

    HOPE Unit services are offered during contacts with habitual panhandling violators, but each one has refused.  NPOs are seeing the same violators, with Reagan Cantrell being issued at least 10 GC's in the last 4 months.

    The NPOs helped conduct 2 Tarrant Food bank drives this month: 1 at Avondale Senior center on F17 beat and 1 at Sedona Senior center on E11 beat.

    North does not have homeless facilities but did work with Gateway Church on large homeless feeding of over 1000 meals to Presbyterian Night Shelter on 2/19/21.
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    North - Assist with increasing economic development and investment through enforcement, crime prevention, and active engagement with various community partners. Commanders shall establish an economic development committee and meet four times per year to discuss and identify new modes of collaboration and joint venture opportunities.

    The areas around Presidio, Alliance, and Tanger continue to add new businesses weekly. Most businesses opened in accordance with the State's reopening plan.

    The areas around Presidio, Alliance, and Tanger continue to add new businesses weekly. Most businesses opened in accordance with the State's 50% capacity limit at restaurants. 

    NPO's are bulding contacts for businesses.  Businesses are still operating at a reduced capacities where restaurants and bars are concerned.
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    North - Enhance communication between officers and their counterparts in various supporting units (NPOs, specialized units, etc.), by having each specialized unit and NPOs attend at least one roll call per week and disseminate timely intelligence information to Patrol.

    NPOs worked closely with several outside units this month.  Several helped during the large scale National Finals Rodeo in Northwest Division, also participated with NW NPOs at a large scale "Shop with a Cop" at Walmart on Jacksboro Hwy.

    NPOs made several of the bi-weekly outdoor roll calls this month.  They also met with officers loaned to the PCU about a habitual BMV actor.  The new beat officer list was distributed as well with  recent transfers.  NPO Hernandez and Sgt. Pruitt assisted the Background unit on Oral Review board for 3 weeks in January.

    Updated beat officer list sent to the NPOs, they continue to coordinate crime trends and other concerning issues between beat NPO and beat Officers for each shift.  Also NPOs assisted backgrounds in civil service testing along with oral review boards this month.
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    North - Train officers in beat integrity/beat management techniques such as identification of and relationship development with community members who can and will assist law enforcement efforts. Make better use of crime analysis tools and personnel for trending offenses, and the effective use of all available resources. Use one extended roll call training one day/week to encompass all of Patrol in coordination with Advanced Training.

    Bi-weekly outdoor rollcalls continue on Mondays and Thursdays. Info-sharing between beat officers and NPOs occurred via email. 

    Bi-weekly outdoor rollcalls continue on Mondays and Thursdays. Info-sharing between beat officers and NPOs occurred via email as well. 

    In-person roll calls are being restarted, to include NPO and detectives participating in info sharing.
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    North - Address neighborhood quality of life issues more proactively with NPOs and beat officers meeting with twenty citizens and ten businesses on their assigned beats per month.

    NPOs continue to meet with businesses and citizens on smaller group settings.  Target, Tanger, Alliance Town Center businesses all contacted about Boxing Day with potential threat of fights within their facilities.  All were made aware and prepared for any incidents.

    NPOs continue to meet with new businesses, especially on the F13/F14/F15 growing area.  The met with Tanger Outlet managers who gave a donation grant to North Division officers.

    NPOs continue to meet with businesses, apartments and schools on their beats.  F12 apartment manager meeting on 2/24/21, Sagestone Apt manager meeting on 2/24/21 with E14 NPO, F15 Avondale senior center meeting.
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    North - Increase communication between NPOs, community groups, apartment managers, beat officers, and other departmental groups regarding new beat trends, making a concerted and collaborative effort to address them in a timely manner by hosting police sponsored neighborhood meetings within each neighborhood.

    NPOs continue to reach out to their groups.  On 12/3/20 NPOs participated in Food Bank deliver to elderly on F15 Beat, Avondale Senior Center. NPOs had annual Code Blue drive thru party for volunteer group.

    The NPOs continue to post all crime reports on NextDoor website, providing this to HOAs, apartment communities, and area businesses.

    Nextdoor website utilized by both the NPO and the Crime Prevention Specialist weekly to share crime reports and other concerning trends, or safety tips such as driving in inclimate weather this month.
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    North - Develop youth activities in each beat to improve relations between the police and the public. NPOs and beat officers will canvass their beats and ascertain what sport or activity will be productive / successful in their neighborhoods of responsibility. NPOs shall attend PAL meetings on a routine basis and share/encourage participation with the citizens within their beats.

    Several youth activities this month to include large scale Heroes and Helpers event at Target-Tehama Ridhe on 12/5/20 with 10 families shopping.  Then another large scale event  on 12/10 in Northwest at Walmart with a " Shop with a Cop event."  Also Birthday Brigades continued.

    The NPOs continue to be active with multiple Birthday Brigades this month on E15 and F11 beats.  

    NPOs worked with school Officers in Northwest high school to  develop emergency response on lockdown drill on 2/25/21, also worked with youth at Gateway Church on packing meals for those in need on 2/19/21.
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    North - Become more involved in community programs to build better relations and partnerships between the police and the public. NPOs shall develop or facilitate four new meetings in their areas per year.

    Community Programs such as Heroes and Helpers event with youth, "Shop with Cop" events, Birthday Brigades, National Finals Rodeo, outreach for families in need with collaboration with Church on E14 beat and CPS Mendoza.

    Public interaction remains very high in the division.  The NPOs attended grand openings at a donut store along N Tarrant.

    NPOs continue to interact with the public in outreach situations such as 2 Tarrant Food Bank Deliveries at Avondale Senior center on F15 beat on 2/4/21 and Sedona Village on E11 beat on 2/26/21.
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    North - Utilize mobile storefronts that rotates to different locations each month offering services normally offered at regular permanent police storefront locations. NPOs shall utilize the mobile storefront once per month on each of their beats and advertise one week in advance of location.

    Mobile Storefront continues to be restricted due to close quarters and COVID. But other events as mentioned above has helped with community engagement and outreach.

    The mobile storefront usage still is restricted due to not having one assigned to North Division and having to borrow from another division. The NPOs continued Birthday Brigades.

    Mobile storefront still not utilized due to Covid restrictions but discussions on re-starting Kids ID and Auto Etching on an individual basis was asked of chain of command, still waiting on approval to begin those again.
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    North - Identify areas of blight and address in cooperation with other city departments to reduce conditions conducive to crime. NPOs and beat officers shall identify these areas and NPOs will report this information to their chain of command.

    NPOs continue to issue citations for parking complaints. Issued over 100 parking citations this month, tagged 12 abandoned vehicles and responded to 5 Code Complaince issues sent from them.

    The NPOs handled 5 Code Compliance related issues and handled over 30 complaint resolution issues during this month.  Most of them were parking/traffic concerns.

    NPOs continue to  work with Code on complaint resolutions.  20 abandoned vehicles tagged, also conducted Game Room detail with Code and they wrote 6 violations on F17 beat game room off Watuaga Smithfield.
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    North - Submit monthly NPO reports on activities, problem solving efforts, community meetings, community problems, etc.

    Weekly crime reports continue to be shared on NextDoor website.  Also other important information about crime prevention being shared by CPS Mendoza such as Take/Lock/Hide signs to local businesses and other prevention techniques.

    Weekly reports were submitted on NextDoor website, along with provided during HOA, Business and Volunteer meetings.

    NPOs continue to share weekly crime reports through the NextDoor website, along with providing information at monthly code blue meetings.
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    North - Create at least two new CODE Blue groups per year per Division by conducting community walks, creating bilingual advertisements, solicitation through neighborhood association meetings, bringing Code Blue applications to all events where police are present, and providing short recruitment speeches at all applicable events.

    North Division finished the year with 18 active Code Blue groups this year.  Also finished the year with approximately 9000 hours of volunteer patrol hours.  This number is phenomenal considering 6 weeks of COVID shut down in March-May.

    No new Code Blue groups this month.  No new member training held due to restrictions.  Info sent to volunteer coordinator Zertuche to begin planning to resume monthly training in February.

    No new Code Blue groups established this month, but the re-start of the monthly division wide Code Blue meetings on 2/9/21 with guest speaker on homeless issues and how to provide assistance.
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    North - Increase Code Blue Membership by 5% per year for five years.

    North division finished the year with 65 active Code Blue members spread over the division.  Only 5 new members trained this year due to 6 months of no training due to COVID restrictions.

    No new Code Blue added this month due to no training being held city wide because of restrictions.

    No new Code Blue members added, but upcoming training in April, so recruiting will resume this month.
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    North - Increase active Code Blue participation. NPOs are required to provide one special detail per month on their beat outside of normal operations.

    Code Blue participated on several nights of the December (Thur-Fri-Sat night) details with NPO Byrd and NPO Hernandez.  They helped to be extra eyes and ears on E11, E12, F15 beats with unmarked surveillance in their personal vehicles.

    Several recent bulletins were shared with active Code Blue patrollers at the request of the  property crime unit.  They helped canvas E11/E12 beats searching for Catalytic converter thieves in hotel/motel parking lots.

    NPOs reached out  to Code Blue about recent catalytic converter trend, sharing suspect vehicle that was spotted at local Chic Fil A video.  Also F17 conducted residential parking detail with Chisolm Ridge group on 2/22 and 2/23.
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    North - Ensure efficient case management and effective investigations by conducting monthly audits to ensure adherence to compliance standards.

    Property crime officer Shelley and Det. J Slagle were audited this month with minor issues noted.

    Detectives Williams and Fields were audited for this cycle with minor issues noted.

    Detective Lonergan and Officer Quintana were audited for this cycle; minor issues  noted.
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    North - Conduct weekly case review meetings to ensure identification and discussion of all cases assigned to individual detectives; in particular cases that may be related or part of ongoing crime sprees in COMPSTAT and violent crime meetings.

    A suspect was identified in thefts from at least 5 Walmart stores that involved stealing electronics from locked cases. This is partly due to continual collaboration in case review meetings.   

    Two suspects were identified and arrested on five BMV warrants each.  One of the suspects is a juvenile.

    Habitual offender identified in 8 burglary of vehicle offenses, and one vehicle theft offense.  The same subject is suspected in a Robbery where shots were fired.  Suspect still outstanding.
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    North - Increase timely information sharing on trends and wanted-person information with beat officers, NPOs, business owners, community groups, and apartment communities. Captains will schedule and attend ad-hoc and scheduled police informational meetings within each neighborhood. The beat officers, NPOs, and community leaders for each area will be encouraged to participate and create networking events.

    The NPO's continued to use Nextdoor weekly to share crime on their respective beats with the citizens. 

    The NPO's continued to use Nextdoor weekly to share crime on their respective beats with the citizens. 

    NPO's are sharing info on Nextdoor and are in process of building email trees to distribute info to local businesses and apartment managers.
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    North - Establish regular Roll-Call training by detectives for patrol personnel. A divisional CID detective will attend one roll call each week to facilitate information sharing.

    Attendance at roll calls was temporarily suspended indoors but twice-weekly outdoor rollcalls continued with social distancing precautions. Info was passed  to patrol by detectives.

    Info is passed between patrol officer and detectives in person and via email.

    Roll calls are now restarting.  Detectives will attend in person and distribute information weekly.
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    North - Assign patrol officers to the detective office on two-week rotations to facilitate their understanding of the intricacies in investigations and the requirements necessary when filing thorough/quality cases.

    Three patrol officers were tasked to help with outstanding warrants from NCIU

    Three patrol officers continue to assist the Property Crimes Unit with outstanding warrants from NCIU.

    Three patrol officers assigned to property crimes assist Property crimes; assist in locating fugitives and intel gathering for detectives.
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    North - Develop community informants to glean additional information on criminals and trends. NPOs and beat officers shall develop or refer one potential confidential informant to the Intelligence Section per month.

    No  informants added this month, but continued addition of video surveillance to the Neighborhood Camera program and education about registering their systems on the city website.

    No new informants were developed this month, but NPOs continue to push new surveillance sign ups on the neighborhood camera program online.

    No informants developed this month but NPOs continue to push for more enrollment in the online neighborhood camera system.  NPOs also been providing information on the FLOCK camera system.
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