LaGrange Police Department's Kid's
Fishing Derby
2007
The LaGrange Police
Department hosted its second annual Kid’s Fishing Derby this past
Saturday at Eagle Creek Golf Course. Several people have asked me what
we were hoping to accomplish by hosting such an event. Our goal
throughout the entire planning of the derby was to provide a community
event which primarily focused on allowing children to meet and spend
time with police officers in an enjoyable atmosphere. Our
responsibility to the public is not only to enforce laws and educate
citizens about the law, but more importantly, to be a part of the
community and encourage positive interactions with police officers. The
secondary goal was to provide a family-friendly environment in which
parents could spend time with their children in a safe and fun setting.
Our fishing derby
brought together 60 children in and around our community which ranged
from 2 years old up to age 16. We nearly doubled last year’s
participation. Fishing started slowly but ended with a flurry of
activity with over 150 fish caught and prizes awarded to the girl and
boy who caught the largest fish and the person who caught the most
fish. A big congratulations goes out to Kelsey Hoskins, age 12, who
caught the biggest fish for the girls, the most fish in the derby, and a
turtle. She took home 2 trophies. Mason Reppen, age 12, won the biggest
fish caught trophy for the boys with his 2.2 pound catfish. All the
participants received a new fishing pole and t-shirt. We had a perfect
day for a family event and Fish and Wildlife provided us with extra
poles for the participants. With the help of the donations we received,
the LaGrange Police Department was able to provide hot dogs, chips,
cookies and drinks.
With all that being said
it is important to recognize all of the individuals and businesses whom
without their financial sponsorships or donated time this event would
have never succeeded: Eagle Creek Golf Course, The Oldham Era, Bedford
Bank, The Bank Oldham County, East & Westbrook Construction, Fastline,
ACE Home Center, Champion Chevrolet, McDonald’s, Allstate Ready Mix,
Challengers, Kinser & Kinser, DYNEGY, National City Bank, Irish Rover
Too, LaGrange Service Center, KY Tae Kwon Do, Costco, Big O Tires, Dairy
Queen, Hometown Pizza, Walmart, and Custom Graphics. A special thanks
goes to those who volunteered time and effort into the project: Dale
Stanton with Kentucky Fish and Wildlife, Challengers volunteers, and Pat
and Sharon Vincent.
I want to thank everyone
who took part in the LaGrange Police Department’s Kid’s Fishing Derby.
We worked as a community to create an event that enriches the lives of
all those who participate. We hope to see everyone again next year.
Chief Kevin Collett
LaGrange Police
Department
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FORWARD
The LaGrange Police Department has
continued to evolve with the community. As the City grows we realize
that we as a professional police agency must grow along with it, not
only with manpower, but with technology and police tactics.
We are often asked what issues our
agency is currently addressing in the City of
LaGrange. As an effort to open our doors to the public and make
everyone more aware of what is occurring in our community, we are eager
to compile this data and share it. The 2006 Annual Report represents
our second year of providing this service for our community. We use
this same information to look for trends or attempt to proactively
enforce issues that we believe may be on the increase.
As our population grows, we can
anticipate that our calls for service and our expectations to the
community will continue to increase. We as a department must do
everything we can to stay on top of the needs of the City. Obviously,
with twelve officers we realize that we cannot accomplish this alone.
We depend on the community to assist in every aspect of our profession.
The LaGrange Police Department makes every effort to educate the public
with as much information as possible. This desire is what continues to
drive the publishing of our annual report.
The LaGrange Police Department
hopes you find this information useful, and if you should have any
questions about the provided material, please do not hesitate to call
our department.
Respectfully,
Kevin L. Collett
Chief of Police
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
10-99 Report……………………………………………………………………
1
Accident
Data……………………………………………………………………
2
CID
Unit…………..………………………………………………………………
3
Citation
Summary……………………………………………………………….
4
Code
Compliance Mediator………………………………………………….. 5
Dispatched
Runs…………………..……………………………………………
6
Domestic
Violence……………………………………………………………… 7
DUI
Summary……………………………………………………………………. 8
SAFE
Program……………………………………………………………………
9
Uniform
Offense Reports…………………………………………………….. 10
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10-99 Report
At the start
of the 2005 fiscal year, we began tracking and monitoring activity that
is not otherwise documented by a Uniform Offense Report, Accident
Report, Citation, or Courtesy Notice. A review of the 10-99 data for the
calendar year of 2006 showed a total of 22,713 such activities resulting
in 8,938 hours.
The most
prevalent types of response activities were 17,903 extra patrols
including house watches, subdivision details, and citizen’s requests for
additional area patrols; 320 school traffic control activities; 373
other officer assists; 289 alarms; 93 suspicious person reports; 126
suspicious vehicle reports; and 2,377 miscellaneous activities including
crime prevention, motorist assists, welfare checks, and others.
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Accident Data
There were a
total of 230 accidents in the City of LaGrange for 2006, an increase of
10 from the previous year. Of those, 37 were injury accidents causing
57 people to be injured. There was one fatality caused by a motor
vehicle accident during the year.
Further
breakdown of our statistics revealed that 48% or 111 of the 230
accidents occurred on Highway 53, of which 23 were injury accidents. We
had 9% or 21 collisions happen on Highway 146, 4 involving injuries, and
1 fatality. The frequent trains traveling through LaGrange caused 1% or
2 accidents for the year, none resulting in injuries.
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CID Unit
The following is a breakdown
of all cases, open and closed, that were worked by the LaGrange Police
Department detective in 2006. The total includes cases initiated by
detectives and those adopted from patrol officers for followup
investigation.
|
Abuse of Office |
0 |
|
Arrests |
7 |
|
Arson/Related |
1 |
|
Assault/Related |
4 |
|
Bribery/Corruption |
0 |
|
Burgulary/Related |
20 |
|
Business/Commercial Fraud |
0 |
|
CHR/Child Abuse/Neglect |
16 |
|
Criminal Damage-Property |
18 |
|
Criminal Homicide |
2 |
|
Death Investigation |
2 |
|
Domestic Violence |
3 |
|
Escape/Related |
1 |
|
Family Offenses |
2 |
|
Fetal Homicide |
0 |
|
Firearms Offenses |
1 |
|
Forgery/Related |
4 |
|
Gambling |
0 |
|
Interference with Judicial Admin. |
1 |
|
Internal Affairs |
3 |
|
Kidnapping/Related |
1 |
|
Misc. Business, Occupation Crime |
0 |
|
Miscellaneous |
2 |
|
Narcotics Related |
85 |
|
Obstruction of Public Admin. |
1 |
|
Perjury/Related |
0 |
|
Pornography |
0 |
|
Prostitution |
0 |
|
Riot, Disorderly Conduct/Related |
1 |
|
Robbery |
7 |
|
Sexual Offenses |
5 |
|
Theft/Related |
46 |
|
Traffic Offenses |
1 |
|
TOTAL CID Assigned Cases |
234 |
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Citation Summary
Traffic
Citation Summary
The LaGrange
Police Department issued 4952 citations for the 2006 calendar year as
compared to 3667 for 2005. Of the 2006 citations, 3904 were for traffic
violations. The three most prevalent types were “No Registration Plate
or Receipt” with 1423, “Moving Hazardous” (which include citations such
as speeding, improper passing, reckless driving, etc.) with 1245, and
“Failure to Notify DOT of Address Change” with 417. The following graph
represents the increase in these areas from the previous year and the
summary of all traffic violations is on the following page.
ALL CITATIONS
00000
MISCELLANEOUS
24
00009 SPEEDING 09 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
2
00010 SPEEDING 10 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
78
00011 SPEEDING 11 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
3
00012 SPEEDING 12 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
56
00013 SPEEDING 13 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
76
00014 SPEEDING 14 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
83
00015 SPEEDING 15 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
209
00016 SPEEDING 16 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
89
00017 SPEEDING 17 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
61
00018 SPEEDING 18 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
40
00019 SPEEDING 19 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
40
00020 SPEEDING 20 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
45
00021 SPEEDING 21 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
22
00022 SPEEDING 22 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
11
00023 SPEEDING 23 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
11
00024 SPEEDING 24 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
18
00025 SPEEDING 25 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
26
00026 SPEEDING 26 MPH
OVER
LIMIT
14
00100
SPEEDING
3
00107 IMPROPER
PASSING
13
00108 FAILURE TO OR
IMPROPER
SIGNAL
25
00111 DISREGARDING
STOP
SIGN
59
00113 DISREGARDING
TRAFFIC CONT DEV-TRAFFIC LIGHT
54
00114 IMPROPER START
FROM PARKED
POSITION 4
00115 RECKLESS
DRIVING
31
00116
PASS/LOADING/UNLOADING/SCHOOL/CHURCH BUS 1ST
OFF 2
00120 DRIVE TOO SLOW
FOR TRAFF COND/MINIMUM SPEED 2
00122 FAILURE TO DIM
HEADLIGHTS
3
00125 FLAMMABLE LIQ/EXPL
TRANS FAIL TO STOP AT RR CROSS 1
00127 FAILURE TO GIVE
RIGHT OF WAY TO EMERGENCY VEH 1
00128 DISREGARDING RR
CROSSING
FLASHER 29
00131 FAILURE TO
ILLUMINATE HEAD
LAMPS 10
00133 INSUFFICIENT
HEAD
LAMPS
1
00136 CARELESS
DRIVING
45
00176 DRIVING TOO
FAST FOR TRAFFIC
CONDITIONS 1
00178 MOTOR RUNNING
ON UNATTENDED VEH
1
00188 FLEEING OR
EVADING POLICE, 1ST
1
00196 FLEEING OR
EVADING POLICE, 1ST DEGREE (MOTOR VEH)
7
00197 FLEEING OR
EVADING POLICE, 1ST DEGREE (ON
FOOT) 4
00199 FLEEING OR
EVADING POLICE, 2ND DEGREE (ON
FOOT) 6
00205 INADEQUATE
SILENCER
(MUFFLER)
10
00206 IMPROPER
EQUIPMENT
5
00207 REAR LICENSE
NOT
ILLUMINATED
2
00212 IMPROPER USE OF
RED
LIGHTS
4
00213 IMPROPER USE OF
BLUE
LIGHTS
7
00218 CHAINS AND
LUGS ON HIGHWAY
1
00220 NO TAIL
LAMPS
6
00226 ONE
HEADLIGHT
22
00231 OBSTRUCTED
VISION AND/OR
WINDSHIELD 10
00238 IMPROPER OR NO
WINDSHIELD
2
00240 NO BRAKE LIGHTS
(PASSENGER
VEHICLES) 4
00242 EXCESSIVE
WINDOW
TINTING
2
00243 NO TINTING
LABEL ON
VEHICLE
1
00271 DISREGARD-FAIL
TO YIELD RIGHT OF
WAY 8
00272 FOLLOWING
ANOTHER VEHICLE TOO
CLOSELY 6
00273 IMPROPER USE OF
LEFT LANE-OVERTAKING VEHICLE 9
00380 NO
OPERATORS-MOPED
LICENSE
77
00395 INSTRUCTIONAL
PERMIT
VIOLATIONS
3
00398 OPERATING
VEHICLE WITH EXPIRED OPERATORS LICENSE
42
00401 NO OPERATORS
LICENSE
2
00403 OPERATING ON
SUS OR REV OPER
LICENSE 97
00404 PMT UNLINCENSED
OPERATOR TO OPERATE MOTOR VEH 3
00405 IMPROPER
REGISTRATION
PLATE
33
00407 NO REGISTRATION
RECEIPT
680
00416 UNDERAGE DRIVER
OF PUBLIC PASS VEH
1
00417 DISPLAY OR POSS
OF CANCELLED OR FICTICIOUS OPER LIC 14
00422 FAILURE TO
SURRENDER REVOKED OPERATORS LICENSE
2
00424 NO REGISTRATION
PLATES
587
00425 IMPROPER
DISPLAY OF REGISTRATION
PLATES 20
00432 FAILURE TO
REGISTER TRANSFER OF MOTOR VEHICLE &nb
