Chief's Community Update - December 4, 2022
Happy Holidays East Palo Alto community members. Thank you for visiting our website and taking a moment to read this community update.
Holiday safety tip:
Please avoid leaving your bags, holiday shopping, or anything valuable visible in unattended vehicles. Thieves tend to look in car windows before deciding to break in. If there is something that looks valuable, it only takes a matter of seconds to break the car window, take valuables, and flee.
Personnel:
Currently we have 4 Police Officer vacancies
One Academy Graduate applicant is potentially completing his testing this week.
One Academy Recruit applicant is close behind and anticipated to be completed before January. If successful, the recruit would finish police academy training before beginning field training in East Palo Alto in early February.
We are reviewing applications to identify candidates to fill the remaining 2 vacant positions.
We have two Reserve Police Officer applicants in our pre-employment testing process.
Police Officer, Police Recruit, and Reserve Police Officer are ongoing recruitments, with no closing date. If you are interested or know somebody who would be a great fit for our community in these roles, please visit https://www.calopps.org/city-of-east-palo-alto.
The Community Service Officer recruitment currently has over 30 applicants. Human Resources will hopefully start reviewing the applications and inviting qualified candidates in for oral panel examinations to fill 2 Full Time positions and 2 Part Time positions.
Anonymous tips and immediate service
We appreciate all the anonymous tips we have been receiving. It is important to note that anonymous tips are not a resource for immediate police response as it is not monitored 24/7. For immediate police response, either call 9-1-1 or our non-emergency phone number 650-321-1112. For complaints related to property violations, please contact Code Enforcement department, which operates under our building department (https://www.cityofepa.org/building/page/code-enforcement).
When providing information to the police, we need specific information about the crime or criminal. As an example, if you are reporting someone for dealing drugs, we need to know:
- where and when they are selling the drugs
- a detailed description of them (white female, blue jeans, red jacket, baseball cap)
- any description of a vehicle
- any other information you have about the crime.
While we don’t expect you to jeopardize your safety to get this information, it is very important information if we make an arrest. Not only will your tip provide us with accurate information about the suspect, but we are also able to serve as a witness to the crime and we can testify in court. Please use these options for providing an anonymous tip.
You can make an anonymous tip to the police by calling or texting to (650) 409-6792.
Reminder:
The December 2022 Beat Meeting Schedule is as follows and the flyer is attached. To determine which beat you live in, please use our map on our Community Policing page.
Beat One and Four
Time: Thursday, December 15, 2022, at 06:30 PM
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/91306910301?pwd=d0QvdjVaaGlPWk1RY3oyZ3RWUFM2Zz09
Meeting ID: 913 0691 0301
Passcode: 360742
Dial by your location
+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)
Beat Two
Time: Thursday, December 1, 2022, at 06:30 PM
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/94814753040?pwd=Vk5RaUVseURDcUZQbHBEbm9xbWFkQT09
Meeting ID: 948 1475 3040
Passcode: 373498
Dial by your location
+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)
Beat Three
Time: Wednesday, December 14, 2022, at 06:30 PM
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/96665120833?pwd=blR1Mk9uaW4zMG1oN1BVbmx3WTRMQT09
Meeting ID: 966 6512 0833
Passcode: 914233
Dial by your location
+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)
If there is a topic you would like addressed in the next update, please feel free to send an email at jliu@cityofepa.org.
Thank you,
Jeff Liu
Interim Chief of Police
