Monroe County Sheriff's Office Annual Report - 2009

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Public Information / Media Relations / Web Site In addition to overseeing the Community Relations Division, Director Becky Herrin is charged with performing the duties of Public Information Officer for the Sheriff’s Office, speaking with the media about news and events, producing internal and external newsletters for the agency, including the quarterly Rap Sheet; the Weekly Rap Up produced every Friday; and designing and maintaining the agency’s web site. School Resource Officers The Sheriff’s Office has five School Resource Officers stationed at Sugarloaf School, Marathon High School and Middle School, Plantation Key School, Key Largo School and Coral Shores High School. The SROs provide day to day security at each school. In 2009, they responded to 1,280 calls for service county-wide. They are also charged with maintaining positive relationships with the students, teachers and administrators at each school. In 2009, SROs taught Project ALERT to all 360 7th graders, with a booster class in 8th grade. This program targets drug abuse, bullying, and many other issues which affect today’s youth. The SROs are also charged with overseeing the Sheriff’s Office Explorer / Cadet Program. and mental health counseling in it’s efforts to keep youth from committing further offenses. Teen Court helped 163 youthful offenders in 2009. The program’s success rate for those youth completing the program was 88%. Over the past three years 88% of those youth remained crime free. Teen Court is financed through a fine attached to traffic citations. In 2009, IDDS helped 49 youthful offenders with an average success rate for the program of 75%. Over the last three years, 67% of youth served by this program have remained crime free. IDDS is financed through a contract with the Department of Juvenile Justice that provides 38 slots for juvenile offenders overseen by two highly trained case workers. It also receives money from a fee attached to court cases. For more information about any of these Juvenile Programs, contact Juvenile Program Supervisor Sherwood Hanford via email at shanford@keysso.net or by phone at 305-292-7129. School Resource Officers work in area schools, and supervise / mentor Monroe County Explorers and Cadets. Citizen’s Crime Watch Citizen’s Crime Watch is a nationally recognized crime prevention program that brings neighbors and law enforcement together in an effort to prevent crime. Neighborhood Crime Watch acts as the volunteer “eyes and ears” of the Sheriff’s Office. The Crime Watch Coordinator is charged with helping set up new crime watches, coordinating meetings and communicating crime trends and other helpful information to the existing crime watches, and with conducting free home security surveys. The program has proven it’s worth over the years here in Monroe County. School Crossing Guards In 2009, the Sheriff’s Office was responsible for all the School Crossing Guards working at schools in Monroe County, including the City of Key West. The Crossing Guards in the City were supervised by Deputy Vincent Catala while the Crossing Guards in the unincorporated areas are supervised by School Resource Sgt. Glenn Test. At the end of 2009, the City of Key West opted to take back the guards working in the city limits, leaving two remaining Crossing Guards under the Sheriff’s Office in Key Largo and Marathon. Juvenile Programs Monroe County Sheriff’s Office juvenile intervention programs help prevent youths from engaging in further delinquent behavior and help prevent youthful offenders from becoming adult offenders. Teen Court uses restitution, community service, curfew, letters of apology and other methods to help re-direct youth in the program back onto the right path. The Intensive Delinquency Diversion Program (IDDS) is a longer term program for more serious offenders. It targets education, job placement, youth and family counseling along with substance abuse Monroe County Sheriff’s Office - Annual Report 2009 34 Director Anne Leonard 140,000 135,000 130,000 125,000 120,000 115,000 110,000 121,746 The Juvenile Programs Staff Communications Division The Communications Division is located in the heart of the Florida Keys in Marathon. All of the 911 calls for Monroe County are answered in the center with the exception of calls for the City of Key West. The Communications Division dispatches Sheriff’s Deputies, Emergency Medical Services and Fire/Rescue personnel. In 2009, Communications Officers answered 137,073 Calls for Service 120,132 123,527 123,586 137,073 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Calls for Service, for an average of 375 calls entered in the Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system in a 24-hour period. The volume of calls received have increased by 14% over 2006 levels. Most calls for service entered in CAD represent a law enforcement officer, emergency services person, or fire response unit sent to a location in the County to answer a request for help from a citizen. The division has a total of 22 staff members, which includes a Director, four Shift Supervisors and 17 Communications Officers. There is a Supervisor on duty 24 hours per day. Communications Officers are also tasked with providing life saving pre-arrival instructions to the caller to assist in medical and fire situations. Communications Officers go through approximately 5 months of training with a training officer prior to being released on to a shift. Training officers work tirelessly to make certain that the communications officers are provided with the most up to date training possible so the public can receive the most efficient customer service possible. A 911 call should only be made in an emergency. Otherwise callers should use the other five non-emergency phone numbers available 24 hours a day. • (305) 296-2424 Headquarters • (305) 745-3184 Lower Keys • (305) 289-2430 Middle Keys • (305) 853-7021 Islamorada • (305) 853-3211 Upper Keys Director Brooks Bateman Sheriff’s dispatch center Aviation Unit The Aviation Division consists of seven pilots and three mechanics. The aircraft they operate currently include a Sikorsky S-76 medical transport helicopter and a King Air B200 airplane. The hanger where the Division is located is on the northern end of the airport in Marathon. The King Air provides transport of county employees traveling for business. The medical transport helicopter - called Trauma Star - provides trauma flights from the scenes of accidents and incidents in Monroe County; it takes severely injured victims to major trauma centers in Miami because there is no such facility within Monroe County; it is also available for inter-facility transports between hospitals, as needed. The program involves a cooperative agreement between the Sheriff’s Office, Monroe County Fire/Rescue, County Commissioners, County Administrator, and our three local hospitals. Professional Standards The Professional Standards Division is comprised of both the Office of Accreditation and the Training Unit of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. Accreditation The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office holds professional Accreditation from state and national accrediting bodies for Law Enforcement and Corrections. The Division of Professional Captain Penny Phelps Standards manages the accreditation process, including making sure agency policies and procedures are in compliance with accreditation standards and the agency is following established policy. Sheriff Peryam and his Professional Standards team receiving re-accreditation from the Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation. MCSO was also re-accredited in Corrections in 2009. Training The Sheriff’s Office Training Unit works closely with Florida Keys Community College to provide instructors for ongoing law enforcement related academies. Instructors from the Sheriff’s Office also work with the College to teach advanced courses such as Line Supervision, Field Training Officer, Intoxilyzer Operator, Radar Operator, Middle Management, and Instructor Techniques workshops. The Sheriff’s Aviation Hanger, in Marathon, houses Trauma Star and a King Air plane, acquired surplus from the military. It also serves as storage for the Sheriff’s Mobile Command Post and other equipment. The Training Division holds Annual Retraining Modules (ARM) to keep officers up to date in their in-service training requirements. 35 Monroe County Sheriff’s Office - Annual Report 2009
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