PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2004
COUNCIL CHAMBER
Convened: 7:22 p.m.
Adjourned: 8:46 p.m.
Councillor
Juan A. Gomez
Councillor
Barbara G. Haller
Also: Police Chief Gerald Vizzo
Fire Chief Gerard A. Dio
City Clerk David J. Rushford, clerk
POLICE DEPARTMENT
1. Relative to
addresses where letters have been sent to property owners regarding the
eviction of tenants arrested for certain crimes.
#19F CM October 14, 2003
In Committee
December 8, 2003 – Held
Recommend File
Chairman’s Order request the Police Chief
assign a police officer to meet semi-annually with the Worcester Property
Owner’s Association to discuss those issues of mutual concern.
2. Relative to the Federal
Universal Hiring Grant Program.
#19C CM December 9, 2003
3. Relative to purchasing
additional radar guns.
#19D CM December 9, 2003
4. Relative to Police liaison
to the Juvenile Court.
#19E CM December 9, 2003
5. Relative to accessing
information regarding Level 2 Sex Offenders
#19A CM January 6, 2004
Chairman’s Order request the Police Chief to inform the City Council of the number of Level 2 and Level 3 registered sex offenders living in the City of Worcester.
Chairman’s Order request the Administration provide the City council with information concerning the City of Boston disseminating information from it’s sex offender registry.
6. Relative to Crime Statistics
in the Piedmont St/Pleasant St. area.
#19B CM January 6, 2004
7. Relative
to conditions of vehicles owned & operated by the Worcester Police
Department.
#19A CM January 13, 2004
Recommend File
8. Relative to process for assignment of paid detail work.
#19C CM January 13, 2004
Chairman’s Order request the
Administration provide the City Council with the policies and/or agreements in
place in other communities concerning the maximum number of hours that police
officers may work in the aggregate; i.e. regular, overtime, court assignment
and pay detail work
9. Relative to purchasing
machinery to control speed.
#19D CM January 13, 2004
10. Relative
to amounts of money seized by and/or forfeited to the city and its Police
Department.
#19E CM January 13, 2004
11. Relative to the new
Worcester Police recruits.
#19G CM January 13, 2004
12. Relative
to Crime Statistics Reports for the Piedmont St./Pleasant St. area and Crime statistics
Profile for neighborhoods.
#19C CM January 27, 2004
13. Relative to increased police
presence in the Wildwood Avenue area.
#19D CM January 27, 2004
14. Relative to Police Class
Update.
#14A CM February 10, 2004
15. Relative
to distributing handsets to the Operation Division of the Police Department.
#19D CM February 10, 2004
16. Relative to better results
regarding Community Policing.
#19A CM February 24, 2004
17. Relative
to Police Department’s that require their Police Officers to wear bulletproof
vests.
#19B CM February 24, 2004
Chairman’s Order request the
Administration report to the City Council who decides when a subject is
appropriate for collective bargaining, and, if the wearing of a bullet-proof
vest is found to be outside that determination, whether the Police Chief will
require new police recruits to wear vests.
18. Relative to “Prostitution
Mapping” Program
#19C CM February 24, 2004
Chairman’s Order request the
Police Chief forward to the City Council his plans to control prostitution in
the City.
Chairman’s Order request the
Police Chief provide the City Council with a report on the continued
proliferation of unregistered motorized scooters in the City.
19. Relative to Police Officers
wearing Bulletproof Vests.
#19A CM April 13, 2004