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MILLBURY POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

for service and crime, the majority of accidents, citations, and traffic enforcement have taken<br />

place within town and outside of the mall.<br />

ACCIDENTS<br />

Yearly Statistics<br />

Mall Activity<br />

(Town wide)<br />

Year Yearly<br />

Accidents<br />

Mall<br />

Accidents<br />

Yearly<br />

Increase/Decrease<br />

Percentage of<br />

Yearly Accidents<br />

Increase/Decrease<br />

from Prior Year<br />

2009 308 43 9 14.0% 3.8%<br />

2010 272 37 -6 13.6% -0.4%<br />

2011 290 43 6 14.8% 1.2%<br />

CITATIONS<br />

Yearly Statistics<br />

Mall Activity<br />

(Town wide)<br />

Year Yearly<br />

Citations<br />

Mall<br />

Citations<br />

Yearly<br />

Increase/Decrease<br />

Percentage of<br />

Yearly Citations<br />

Increase/Decrease<br />

from Prior Year<br />

2009 398 12 -8 3.0% -1.3%<br />

2010 892 18 6 2.0% -1.0%<br />

2011 2136 34 16 1.6% -0.4%<br />

The yearly calls for service and arrests throughout the town have remained fairly<br />

consistent. The allocation of work has tremendously. In the years prior to the mall opening,<br />

officers simply had the town, (mostly residential make-up with several highways), to patrol and<br />

respond to calls. During the last ten years, since the Shoppes at Blackstone Valley opened, the<br />

percentage of time officers are dedicated to working on arrests, incidents, summons, bookings<br />

and paperwork related to the mall has soared, staffing levels have decreased, as well as the time<br />

officer have to perform discretionary traffic enforcement and patrols that would otherwise have<br />

been performed between calls for service.<br />

SUMMARY<br />

In summary, the categories of criminal and non-criminal activity listed above are<br />

beneficial in indentifying crime trends, what time of the day or night criminal activity is<br />

occurring, the impact on various shifts, amount of resources utilized in different areas of town in<br />

response to crime, and for tactical decision-making and strategic planning.

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