| Our service to the community is basically divided into two categories. The first is direct support to the community in the form of neighborhood patrols offering assistance to motorists, pedestrians and homeowners. One of our most popular programs began as child identification in the form of fingerprinting for the parents. This has evolved into providing DNA identification in place of the fingerprints. We’ve had much greater success with the DNA collection considering we’ve been able to collect samples from sleeping infants without waking them up. The additional benefit of DNA collection kits is that parents can perform the collection at home. We also have had personnel on patrol at our local high school sporting events in the past. The second category of support is to the Police Department and takes on a more complex number of chores. We’re routinely called out for searches for lost individuals and assistance with traffic control at accident scenes, to assist with traffic at fire scenes and assist the Police when events become extended in duration. These extended situations have included site security at plane crashes, standing by an open business while the owner responds to secure the business, directing traffic during fatal accident reconstruction operations, and observing a suspect vehicle or residence waiting for a suspect to show up. We also perform traffic control during storm power outages when the street lights go out and have patrolled darkened shopping centers, schools, and public buildings overnight during a hurricane. Other scheduled events include crowd control at Town events drawing thousands of participants and traffic direction at parades and other civic events throughout the year. We also assist the Police Department with administrative matters when requested. |