My email address is on many of the internal lists and groups, so I get copied in on lots and lots of internal email. It is sometimes a battle to keep up, but I'm sure glad I didn't miss a couple of this week's emails (lightly edited for length), from Capt. Tim Linke and Chief Jim Peschong, and I heartily agree!
"Just a quick note to advise you of a significant incident to which B-shift crews responded today. Engine 3 and Medic 2 were dispatched to a person with a head injury. Upon arrival, the crew noted that the patient was down a steep embankment along the Salt Creek Levee. Engine 3 advised they would need a Truck Company for slope evacuation, and began providing aid to the victim. Truck 1 arrived then began setting up their rope rescue equipment and used Battalion 1's vehicle as an anchor point. Engine 10 arrived and assisted. Units skillfully immobilized the patient and placed him in a Stoke's Basket; he was then moved up the embankment with the haul system rigged by Truck 1. The patient was transported to Bryan West with potentially life-threatening injuries. Thanks to the combined efforts of all members on location, the patient was removed from a quasi-complex situation and delivered to definitive care within a very short time from dispatch."
Tim Linke
Captain, Acting B1B
"I just wanted to say to everyone "Congratulations on a job well done" on the Peter Hardy homicide investigation. As an observer from the sidelines, which is still very hard to do, you all worked like a well-oiled machine on this investigation. I mean from all the street officers, Team Detectives, Criminal Investigations Unit, crime scene tecs, Fugitive Task Force, Commanders, Support units, etc.. To see the work and precision that was done on this investigation just has to make you proud to be a member of the Lincoln Police Department."
Chief Peschong
13 comments:
When do the police get a 7% raise???
You'll never get a raise until you write more tickets.
On a related note, do you have any incite on the "failure" to notify/lockdown schools in the area of the recent murder? I put failure in quotes, because I don't personally feel it was necessary. Then again, I don't have much to go on besides news reports.
If LPD did advise schools of the situation and a lockdown was called for, would LPD have to send officers to the school?
When they start solving at least 50% of the hit and runs that happen in this town.
11:36,
Name any cities that have that success rate with solving H&R crashes, along with a data link to support it.
/crickets
I thought so.
11:36--
How do you believe the police should solve hit & run accidents when little or no evidence is usually left behind. Without witnesses to the hit & run, I'm not sure where you expect them to develop a suspect vehicle from. The crystal ball technique is no longer available.
Cripes, Give them the raise, already. They deserve it. BTW, Anonymous 11:36, Think about it...hit and RUN. Not that easy to solve when you have a department that's understaffed and aren't able to devote time to that investigation ONLY. I really don't get why the public always wants to BLAME the crimes on the LEOs.
8:17
You can't really blame 11:36 for being upset. After all, they solve 100% of the crimes on TV cop shows in an hour or less. I'm guessing 11:36 was a victim of a hit-and-run and is bitter about it. I can understand that, but it's still not the fault of the police.
Typical H&R: Person comes out to their car in the morning, sees damage. No evidence other than some light gray paint scraping. Good luck solving that. Sorry, the CSI-TV-World magical instant paint-particle analyzer isn't working today. Neither is the surveillance camera zoom-and-enhance-byond-the-limits-of-believeability software, so they can't take an image from the U-stop camera from three blocks away and bounced off four separate chromed surfaces to reveal the VIN plate of the fiend's vehicle.
No witnesses, no video, no physical evidence, no possible suspects = no real hope of solving the H&R. Oh, you could examine every light gray vehicle in Lancaster County, and...how many are there...oh, never mind.
Steve,
Not only do they solve all crimes on those tiresome police procedural shows, but they solve them in only 44 minutes (not including commercials).
11:36 is likely also the same commenter who posted a similar comment regarding H&R crashes and solve rates on about 9/6. If you've got a H&R you feel LPD should have solved, then post that accident report number, so everyone can look at it, and see if the public thinks there was enough evidence to solve that incident, or if you're expecting LPD to have a functioning crystal ball and magically solve it without enough information.
To all comments made after 9-24 @ 11:36, AMEN!
Tom-So in an effort to get back on topic, congratulations to the Firefighters and Police Officers that did a great job in their respective incidents.
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