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KCPD Chief: Remarks from 2015 Police Memorial Service
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Friday, May 15, 2015. Remarks from 2015 Police Memorial Service. We conducted our annual Memorial Service yesterday to remember the 119 officers who have died in service to our city since 1881. It was part of National Police Week activities - a week dedicated to fallen officers across the country. Below are my remarks from yesterday:. Remarks by Trudy Meyers -. Thank you, Mrs. Meyers, for sharing your experiences. Nothing I can say can change what happened or ease the sting of your loss. But I can assure...
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KCPD Chief: Understanding Call Prioritization
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Thursday, August 22, 2013. We sometimes hear complaints that police don’t respond as quickly as people expect to certain types of incidents. The most common complaints are for calls about burglaries, car break-ins and non-injury accidents. We have a finite number of officers, so we must prioritize calls in which someone’s life or safety is at risk. Our policy. Very clearly outlines what types of calls receive priority, but here’s a little more succinct version that our dispatchers follow:. As we work to ...
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KCPD Chief: April 2015
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. We're making changes to enhance community trust and officers' well-being. Whenever unrest between police and residents breaks out in other cities, our local media often ask me to comment about it. I don’t do that because I don’t want to lose my focus on improving trust here in Kansas City. Some of our officers also are participating in the Save a Warrior program. The Kansas City Star did a great feature. These are just some of the many ways we’re trying to better care for...
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KCPD Chief: Hot spot policing undergoes changes
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Monday, January 27, 2014. Hot spot policing undergoes changes. The below article is from the January edition. Of our monthly newsletter, the Informant:. The department’s hot spot policing initiative got kicked up. A notch on Jan. 1, with hundreds more officers now working to stop violence in the city’s most troubled neighborhoods. Officer Tommy Woods, special projects coordinator in the Chief’s Office, said this is increasing positive contacts with residents. It’s also lightened the load ...In addition t...
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KCPD Chief: KCPD officers are taking advantage of Save a Warrior program
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015. KCPD officers are taking advantage of Save a Warrior program. I've put a big emphasis this year on the overall wellness of our department members. I wrote about it. On this blog last month, and now I want to highlight one of the programs I mentioned, Save a Warrior. Six KCPD members now have graduated from it, and it's featured in this month's issue. Officer Adam Baker was unprepared for what would happen after he was in a fatal officer-involved shooting. Then one of the Departme...
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KCPD Chief: March 2015
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Monday, March 23, 2015. Gunfire continues trending downward in ShotSpotter areas. We began using the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system in October 2012, and it has continued to bring about positive results. The system monitors 3.5 square miles of the urban core that historically have had a high incidence of gunfire. We recently received data from SST Inc. (ShotSpotter’s parent company) to indicate a significant reduction of gunfire in those areas from 2013 to 2014. Monday, March 9, 2015. I wanted to sh...
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KCPD Chief: We're making changes to enhance community trust and officers' well-being
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. We're making changes to enhance community trust and officers' well-being. Whenever unrest between police and residents breaks out in other cities, our local media often ask me to comment about it. I don’t do that because I don’t want to lose my focus on improving trust here in Kansas City. Some of our officers also are participating in the Save a Warrior program. The Kansas City Star did a great feature. These are just some of the many ways we’re trying to better care for...
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KCPD Chief: June 2015
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Officers need breaks, too. You surely have heard about a Texas police officer who has now resigned over the way a cell phone video depicted him treating a teenage girl too roughly at a pool party. If his lawyer. I want to make sure officers tap each other out if they’ve handled a stressful call, and I want our supervisors to encourage that. We have sometimes put public perception above officers’ well-being. We worried what people might think if they saw four or six offic...Two yea...
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KCPD Chief: On the Plaza, we'll engage at the level necessary to prevent crime
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Monday, April 6, 2015. On the Plaza, we'll engage at the level necessary to prevent crime. Upon joining the police department, I met the officer. He was very stern in his communication to others and was respected by his peers. That’s changing. The KCPD is making great strides with building and nurturing relationships in other segments of the community and will continue to do so. The City’s five entertainment districts - the Plaza, Westport, Downtown/Central Business District, 18th and Vine, and Zon...
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