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?AppH)=159& Task Force Detectives plan to send out NATIONAL EQUIPMENT REGISTRY bulletins and CARGO THEFT alerts to agencies in our coverage area so that Patrol Officers can be made aware of thefts to attempt to recover the stolen property. Furthermore, Task Force Detectives plan to identify prolific auto theft offenders and make their cases a priority to arrest the offender as soon as possible to deter further vehicle thefts. Detectives of the Task Force provide VTR -88A inspections in Paris and Bonham and while we donit recover a lot of stolen vehicles it does lead to the recovery of stolen vehicles and trailers. The Task Force are doing more and more of these inspections each year and some of those done are for citizens outside of our coverage area with people routinely coming from COLLIN COUNTY and DENTON COUNTIES. 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 additional plans to use social media such as Facebook to make citizens aware of vehicle crimes. Task Force Detectives will monitor trends in auto theft and disseminate that information to other agencies and when necessary to the community in the 9 county coverage area. The Senior Detective is also a fingerprint examiner and analyzes at most of the recovered prints from stolen vehicles and car burglaries. This includes determining the quality of the print and entering the prints into the AF1X TRACKER system maintained at the City of Paris and it currently has thousands of prints for comparison as all the arrest in the City of Paris and Lamar County are downloaded into on a daily basis. Being a rural area one of the huge issues we have is trailer thefts and this compounded by much of our task force coverage area being on the Oklahoma border. Oklahoma only registers commercial trailers so Texas trailers can be easily stolen in Texas and used in Oklahoma. Detectives have from time to time assisted Oklahoma Detectives with stolen trailers and commonly identify burred vehicles in Oklahoma. Southeast Oklahoma probably have fewer trained auto theft investigators than East Texas does. 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. Task Force Detectives will address the vehicle theft problem with public awareness, data analysis, intelligence, use of technology, follow of Crime Stopper leads, surveillance and further training opportunities. Finally, Task Force Detectives have been assigned to the Task Force for several years and during that time have developed contacts from many investigators and Officers from our coverage areas and these contacts have and will continue to be an asset in solving auto then` cases. 3.3 Functions of the Proposed Program Related to Motor Vehicle Burglary and Theft Prevention Detectives are assigned a large amount of the City of Paris auto burglary cases and commonly attempt to locate the stolen property taken in these cases. Detectives have access to LEADS ON LINE that collects information from many sources such as pawn shops, OfferUp, E -Bay and other similar sights. These websites/stores are commonly used to sale the items stolen in car burglaries and it is LEADS ON LINE is commonly beneficial in solving these crimes.Detectives have found when burglary vehicles increase in an area that it Is often beneficial to work supplementing Patrol at night to focus on the are where the crimes are being committed. if the burglar(s) can be quickly apprehended this stops many more potential car burglaries and saves work for Patrol Officers on the day shift. Task Force Detectives work with Patrol Officers and provide intelligence to them as to the areas that the thieves tend to be targeting and try to make the community aware of these area to spread the message to lock their cars as a large amount of the car burglaries are from cars that are left unlocked. MVCPA Task Forces are required to collaborate across judicial boundaries and to develop regional strategies to implement funded activities. Describe how the applicant staff and jurisdiction will coordinate with other agencies and jurisdictions in the implementation of this program. 3.4 Collaboration Effort 9 of 14 05/2112020, 11:42 AM