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No. 13 Vol. 15
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August 29, 2017
Communication Up In Bloomingdale Thru Street Of Week Program
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By Henry M. Holden he Borough of Bloomingdale, in Passaic County, is about six square miles with three heavily populated with 8,200 residents living on more than 200 small residential streets and four
lake communities. The Bloomingdale Police Department’s approach is to integrate the police department into the community through a multifaceted approach. “We’ve implemented a program we call Street of
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the Week which uses the U.S. Department of Justice standards as a model, but with a more localized program,” says Lt. Robert Ressland. “Street of the Week applies the principle of police omnipresence and high visibility,” says Ressland. “High police visibility discourages bad behavior. Our activities should be carried out in such a manner that it attracts the greatest attention to the police officer, police vehicles and police awareness. “Like anything else, the more the people are made aware of it, the more feedback we get,” he says. “Initially we put it on Facebook, and for those who are savvy with their devices, they became aware of the program. But there are a lot of residents who don’t use social media and it would not be as easy for them to learn about this. We have one officer, Detective Smith, who goes to senior center meetings, and goes over the program with them, what it is, what we do, and how they can get information to us.” When there are school events, and Pride Days, the police department will set up a table where people can pick up a flyer with the procedures and availability of the program.
“We’ve had pretty good success out of that effort,” says Ressland. “Much of the input we get we are aware of before they give it to us, so we try and keep our eyes and ears on it. It is mostly quality of life issues: such as late night noise, suspicious persons, speeding.” Speeding on back roads is an issue. “We may not be on the streets during the time when these people are speeding,” he says. “So, when it’s reported it allows us to strategically place ourselves in positions to affect that quality-of-life issue. “We can place a police vehicle there, or use a radar speed sign at that location which will allow people traveling on that road to become more aware of our presence,” he explains. “If
it doesn’t start out as a deterrent it ends up as one. The people will remember that there’s more police presence on that road and slow down. “Somebody’s dog is barking at 2 a.m. We are not aware of this because we may not be on that street at the time,” he continues. “The neighbors hear the dog, but what they may not know it’s a person who comes home from work at 2 a.m. and lets the dog out. If we know this is happening we can place officers in the area and a quality-of-life issue can be diminished.” Suspicious persons are another issue. “When someone sees something suspicious they call us and we go out to investigate,” says Ressland. “We can determine pretty quickly if this person is sus-
picious and what are they doing there. It may be a solicitor going door to door, and they may not have a permit. Things like that we’re quick to investigate and determine an outcome. “If it’s a situation where we think someone may be involved with narcotics, perhaps being sold out of a house, or something along those lines, we don’t just want to chase them away with them winding up in another neighborhood,” he says. “If it’s determined that there is something like that taking place then it becomes an investigative procedure that goes to the detective bureau, and we try and work a narcotics case out of it. If they are selling narcotics we are going to look to make an arrest. This program works as continued on page 2