10 - Application for extension of an Automobile urglary & Theft Prevention Grant

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City of Paris Grant Application for Fiscal Year 2021 https://abtpa.tamu.edu/Application/PrintApplication.asp?AppD)-- 15 9& use social media such as Facebook to make citizens aware of vehicle crimes. An issue with these crimes is that they are mostly seasonal and increase with the warmer weather as well as with the local school schedule. Citizens tend to get complacent in locking their cars after several months in their neighborhood with little to no crime problems. Patrol Officers are also unable, typically, to stop these thefts even when a area is targeted several nights out of a week. Extra patrol of these areas are done as time permits and Patrol Officers typically are going from call to call especially in the summer time. Task Detectives have been effective changing our hours when a targeted area is identified and being able to focus on the area and not answer calls have lead to arrests. We plan to continue to use this strategy when possible. Task Force Detectives, furthermore, will do surveillance and develop leads when possible to run search warrants to recover property stolen in auto burglaries and make arrests based on those investigations. The Task Force continues to work with other law enforcement units/ agencies in our area to include State, Sheriff and Constables to assist in way to combat auto burglary. Task Force Detectives commonly follow up on leads provided by these agencies and assist when asked with auto burglary cases any where in our coverage area. Detectives attend intelligence meetings and pass on information to other agencies when possible and alert local businesses when we see a trend e>fiecting other areas in coverage area. The Task Force commonly assist with the smaller agencies and communities in LAMAR COUNTY as sometimes car burglars will commit crimes in PARIS and around other parts of the county. Task Force Detectives are on call and will assist any agency at any time that contact is made requesting our assistance in the coverage area in relation to auto burglaries. Task Force Detectives will try to keep our community and business partners aware of vehicle crimes in the coverage area that are found to be a pattern by location or time and or any other time it may be necessary to make them aware of criminal activity in relation to vehicle crimes. The Task Force will attempt to identify prolific car burglars and make an effort to make their investigations a priority as time allows. Task Force Detectives will assist on crime scenes when contacted by patrol especially when several vehicle burglaries are found in one night and our assistance is requested or determined to be needed. This will include fingerprinting of any vehicle, photographing and any other evidence collection necessary. The Task Force currently has a bait vehicle system and are in the process of trying to obtain a suitable vehicle to install the new system and the we plan to continue to use the system to attempt make auto burglary and auto theft cases. However, in reference to auto burglaries we tend to be more reactive as time does not typically avail itself in these case and we tend to spend more time proactively investigating car thefts. 3.2 Functions of the Proposed Program Related to Theft of a Motor Vehicle The Task Force investigate most vehicle thefts that occur in LAMAR COUNTY and the City of PARIS. This not only includes motor vehicles but tractors, trailers and most others associated vehicles or implements including ATV and side by sides. Detectives use at/ available resources to recover these vehicles and to prosecute the identified offenders. Task Force Detectives commonly use Analysts with N.I.C.B., GALVESTON'S TASK FORCE or the FUSION CENTER to assist with stolen vehicles. This may be assisting PATROL to determine vehicle identification numbers, as citizens sometimes do not have that information readily available, so the vehicle can be quickly entered into N.C.I. C. as stolen. Task Force Detectives will also have the stolen vehicle checked on L.P.R. as sometimes this provides leads to the area where the vehicle may be operating as well as providing a photograph of the vehicle. Detectives commonly work most recovered stolen vehicles in the CITY OF PARIS and LAMAR COUNTY and this included fingerprinting and photographing the vehicles. The Task Force believe this is a duty that Patrol Officers and Deputies should be relieved of at every opportunity due to their heavy case load and the inconvenience of processing a crime scene in uniform. Task Force Detectives also typically do a better job processing the vehicle for prints as they will be investigating the case as well and understand the importance of good latent prints. Task Force Detectives also have more experience in latent fingerprinting than Patrol Officers. Task Force Detectives actively search for the stolen vehicles and follow any leads provided by citizens or that are in the Patrol Officers report. This includes sometimes obtaining and reviewing security video and sending it out to the community to assist in identifying suspects/witnesses. Detectives also plan to use social media to inform the community of auto thefts/burglarfes and to ask for assistance in solving these cases. Task Force Detectives tend to be more proactive in these cases. Task Force Detectives plan to follow up on every assigned vehicle theft case assigned or referred to it and arrest the offenders when possible to increase the incidence of arrest of vehicle theft offenders. 8 of 14 05/21/2020,11:42 AM