Community Policing Bureau - Garden Grove

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Since its formation in 1957, <strong>Garden</strong> <strong>Grove</strong> Police Departmenthas employed manual processes to prepare crime incident,arrest and information reports taken by police personnel.Reports were duplicated for dissemination to authorizedpersonnel for further investigation, court filing, or in response tosubpoenas and Public Records Act requests. Beginning in 1978,the Department began utilizing computers to manually enterdata from those reports into a centralized records managementsystem. The massive volume of documents has been physicallystored within secured areas of the Police Department.In 2011, the Department utilized grant funding and contractedwith a vendor to begin development and implementation ofa customized, multi-phase automation process for writing,disseminating, and electronically storing reports. The newautomated report writing system (ARWS) will have the mostsignificant impact upon Department daily operations since theintroduction of mobile computer terminals (MCTs) in policevehicles in 1986. The ARWS is literally revolutionizing how theDepartment conducts business.The ARWS integrates with the Department’s jail booking,evidence tracking and records management systems, expeditingthe workflow processes and making data more readily availablefor use in identifying suspects and evolving crime patterns, andsolving crimes. Phase Two, to be accomplished in 2012, willenable automation of additional report forms, computer tabletsfor field reporting and an online citizen reporting system. Allof these advances will then set the stage for future electroniccitations and electronic filing of cases with the Orange CountyDistrict Attorney’s Office.In June 2011, the Police Department completed the transitionfrom its old DVD-based In-Car Video System (IVS) to newwireless technology. This new system resolved several reliabilityand functionality issues that were experienced with the oldsystem. With the new system, all video and audio is transmittedwirelessly from the patrol unit onto the Department’s maincomputer system when the vehicles pull into the rear parkingarea of the police facility. Besides the increase in video andaudio quality, being able to nearly eliminate the purchaseand use of large quantities of DVDs for storage has resulted insignificant cost savings to the Department. This same systemwas also installed on the Department’s nine new BMW trafficenforcement motorcycles. The entire cost of the new IVS systemwas paid for by grants, including funds awarded through the2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Beat2011 West Division CallsCalls for Service % of City Total1-1 6,493 16%1-2 6,733 17%1-3 6,801 17%Total 20,027 51%Beat2011 East Division CallsCalls for Service % of City Total2-1 6,883 17%2-2 6,328 16%2-3 6,162 16%Total 19,373 49%Total Calls for Service 39,400
Page 2 and 3: Table of ContentsIn Memoriam.......
Page 4 and 5: ManagementTotal Number of Employees
Page 6 and 7: The Mission of the Garden Grove Pol
Page 8 and 9: In January 2011, Chief Kevin Raney
Page 12 and 13: In January, officers were dispatche
Page 14 and 15: In August, two subjects were walkin
Page 16 and 17: The Special Investigations Unit (SI
Page 18 and 19: The Garden Grove Police Department
Page 20 and 21: The mission of a Terrorism LiaisonO
Page 22 and 23: The Mounted Enforcement Unit (MEU)
Page 24 and 25: The Beat Investigations Unit (Beats
Page 26 and 27: The Youth Services Unit (YSU) of th
Page 28 and 29: The Records Division, Front Desk an
Page 30 and 31: The Professional Standards Division
Page 32 and 33: The Community Liaison Division (CLD
Page 34 and 35: Reserve Police Officers and Master
Page 36 and 37: The Community Service Officer progr
Page 38 and 39: Officers of the QuarterOfficer Evan
Page 40: CALEA Accredited Since 1988Flagship

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