Our new hand me down charger for our volunteer unit

Stimpy911

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Nov 23, 2011
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USA / Michigan
This is our newest addition to our program. One of our volunteers owns a decal shop and volunteered his time to fix it up for us.

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Stimpy911

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Nov 23, 2011
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We assist our PD by providing community patrol and calling in suspicious activities. We provide traffic at accident scenes. Assist motorists, assist our officers when requested. A good example is if they are arresting someone we will wait for the wrecker. We work community events and assist in the office with various admin duties. We are like an auxiliary.

We will also respond to ems and fire assists for manpower and traffic. We can also be assigned last occurred non criminal complaints to free our officers up for other calls.
 
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Jarred J.

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Citizens On Patrol

what does A C T I V E stand for?
 

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I remember back in the 1970s, Worcester, MA had a federal grant for a Police Service Aid  (PSA) program. They did all of the above and took non-criminal complaints, accident reports etc. They were heavily used to free up sworn officers. They drove white mid sized cars, marked as Worcester Police Department PSAs, and had single blue ROTA-BEAM Model 44s on the roof, with no siren that I can recall.

They were in service for a number of years, but when the grant ran out, they went away.

Note that these were paid men and women, not volunteers.

Below is an article:

https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/abstract.aspx?ID=48131
 
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We have several area departments that do this. Citizen volunteers go through a basic academy, do ride alongs, and then assist officers waiting for tows, directing traffic, and other non-enforcement functions to free up officers. They have amber and red lights but no sirens, and are unarmed. I think it is a good program. Definitely not React or whackers.
 
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We have several area departments that do this. Citizen volunteers go through a basic academy, do ride alongs, and then assist officers waiting for tows, directing traffic, and other non-enforcement functions to free up officers. They have amber and red lights but no sirens, and are unarmed. I think it is a good program. Definitely not React or whackers.
I was just about to post a reference to Beavercreek Citizens On Preventive Patrol, when I saw that picture, lol.

I can't seem to locate a picture of their vehicles, but Huber Heights has their Citizen Patrol division, also.
 
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I was just about to post a reference to Beavercreek Citizens On Preventive Patrol, when I saw that picture, lol.


I can't seem to locate a picture of their vehicles, but Huber Heights has their Citizen Patrol division, also.

Beavercreek used to use their old patrol cars for the volunteers, but they have at least one brand new Ford Interceptor utility done up in the maroon and white. Looks sharp. Looks like they are taking their program to the next level.
 

Hoff

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Does Yellow Springs have a patrol like this?
 
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