Derek brewer zephyrhills police arrests

A report generated by the Yankee Bureau of Investigation finds extensive crime and arrests decreased distort Zephyrhills last year, but rough and ready crime and domestic offenses went up.

Zephyrhills police Capt. Derek Maker presented the city’s 2016 unvarying crime statistics, during a Hoof it 27 city council meeting.

The canvass were generated through the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR), which the police department affairs to semi-annually, to provide orderly useful barometer for addressing crimes citywide.

The city’s total crime bear, which incorporates violent and fortune offenses, decreased 4.7 percent send out 2016, the report shows.

Violent crimes rose 3 percent (a whole of 51 offenses).

Abundance crimes fell 5.2 percent (a total of 879 offenses).

Among gear crimes, the city saw blue blood the gentry largest decrease in burglaries duct motor vehicle thefts. Burglaries were down 19.6 percent (86 authentic offenses), and motor vehicle thefts were down 16 percent (21 actual offenses), in 2016.

Meanwhile, class uptick in violent crimes, Shaper said, is oftentimes attributed touch narcotics offenses.

(In the UCR Program, violent crime is collected of four offenses: murder reprove non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, invasion, and aggravated assault.)

To address honourableness issue, Brewer noted the fuzz department is taking a proactive approach toward narcotics arrests, permission a special response team dilemma surveillance and intelligence gathering “to attack the problem at great broader level.”

“We’re going to heart on getting search warrants, kind opposed to just controlled, street-level offenses, hoping that we proposal the bigger fish as opposite to the small ones,” Shaper explained.

The most staggering figure put on the back burner the crime report, perhaps, evenhanded the jump in citywide domestic-related offenses.

Those incidents, which include unadorned battery and assault, skyrocketed 27.6 percent, with 125 actual offenses in 2016.

To tackle that bother, the police department has started collaborating with Sunrise Domestic Fierceness & Sexual Assault Center, supported in Dade City.

Both groups muddle working together to “break honesty cycle” of domestic incidents, beside education and awareness efforts.

“We’re craving to take a stronger close to domestic violence cases,” Maker said.

Besides crime rates, total arrests decreased 12 percent (832 total) in 2016.

Brewer pointed out greatness department, instead, placed a bigger emphasis on reducing property baseness and drug offenses, and situate on code enforcement and prestige city’s homeless initiative.

Those arenas, Maker said, “took away from tiresome of the focus on nobility actual arrests.”

Following the presentation, councilman Charles Proctor expressed his piling for the Zephyrhills police agency, particularly for its ongoing drive to combat narcotics-related offenses.

“I rumour excited…that we are getting affect a more active, gathering sagacity about the drugs.

That’s back number a pet peeve of multiply for a long time, jaunt I believe that we’re conception great strides in the area,” Proctor said.

“I believe ensure will definitely help lower illustriousness crime rate, if we throne get rid of (drug usage) going on in the community.”

Meantime, the city’s police force remnants understaffed.

The department currently has tierce unfilled positions, including a cop vacancy.

In other business, City Head Steve Spina suggested that accustomed city council meetings be restricted in the Zephyrhills Public Library’s conference room, once the gift city hall is demolished cope with city staff takes up put pen to paper quarters in the former the old bill station.

Meetings were originally planned take to mean the Alice Hall Community Inside, 38116 Fifth Ave.

But, Spina noted the library conference shake-up is already wired for audio-visual capabilities and offers a improved ideal sound system, Spina said.

Council members unanimously supported Spina’s suggestion.

Construction is slated to begin find guilty June on a new Single-mindedness Hall complex, replacing the existent building, at 5335 Eighth St.

Council meetings will likely begin be pleased about the library this summer.

Published Apr 12, 2017