Showing posts with label Westminster Police Dept. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Westminster Police Dept. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Westminster Vol. Fire Dept. at “National Night Out” Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at Dutterer's Family Park


Westminster Vol. Fire Dept. at “National Night Out” Tuesday, August 5, 2014 6:30-8:00 Dutterer's Family Park

Food, Games, Door Prizes, Music

Police and community partnerships: National Night Out is an annual event designed to strengthen our communities by encouraging neighborhoods to engage in stronger relationships with each other and with their local law enforcement partners. The goal is to heighten crime-prevention awareness, build support and participation in local anti-crime programs, and most importantly, send a message that our neighborhoods are organized and fighting back. It's also the perfect opportunity to get to know your neighbors even better. See you there.

Hosted by: GFWC Junior Woman's Club of Westminster/City of Westminster Police Department

Westminster Vol. Fire Dept. at “National Night Out” Tuesday, August 5, 2014 6:30-8:00 Dutterer's Family Park https://www.facebook.com/kevindayhoff/posts/10211649355883023

“National Night Out” Tuesday, August 5, 2014 6:30-8:00 Dutterer's Family Park https://www.facebook.com/kevindayhoff/posts/10211649308081828



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Saturday, March 25, 2017

Westminster Auxiliary Police Sgt. Larry Myers


Westminster Auxiliary Police Sgt. Larry Myers talks with a young man who wants to be a police officer or firefighter at the Third Annual KIDZPO at Grace Lutheran Church Sat March 25, 2017 21 Carroll St Westminster MD.

Thursday, January 26, 2017

January 25, 2017 Westminster Md. Police investigating Sexual Assault


Westminster Md. Police investigating Sexual Assault

This makes me really sad. I have run and walked this trail for years and years and always thought it to be safe. Our heart and prayers for the crime victim. The Westminster Police Department is looking for a male suspected of sexually assaulting a woman walking her dog Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 25, 2017, on the trail near Tahoma Farm Road.

January 25, 2017

On Wednesday January 25, 2017 at approximately 2:00 p.m., the Westminster Police were called to the area of Tahoma Farm Rd and Md Rte 31 for the report of a sexual assault that had just occurred in the immediate area.

Arriving officers contacted the victim, an adult female who reported she was accosted by a lone male while she and her dog were walking on a footpath between Tahoma Farm Rd and Long Valley Rd in Westminster, MD.

The unknown assailant sexually assaulted the woman and fled the area on foot. Police established a perimeter in the area and a search for the suspect was initiated but failed to locate the suspect.

The suspect was described as a young male, age 1620, 58 to 510, no facial hair, slender, thin build wearing all dark clothing and a hooded sweatshirt. The suspect was described as having a dark skin completion.

There were no weapons involved. The victim is currently being interviewed by investigators. The victim has been taken to Carroll Hospital Center for a checkup. Citizens are reminded to remain vigilant of their surroundings. The police will increase patrols of the area.


Citizens who may have witnessed this incident or who have information as to the identity of the suspect are asked to contact Det. Cory Vandergrift of the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office or Sgt. Jeff Schuster of the Westminster Police Department Criminal Investigations Bureau at (410) 8484646, or send a confidential text to 847411, keyword TIPWPD or contact the TIPS line at (410) 8578477.
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Saturday, November 12, 2016

Shooting reported in Westminster

Shooting reported in Westminster

November 12, 2016

Domestic disturbance results in assault by shooting in Westminster https://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2016/11/shooting-reported-in-westminster.html

According to information released by the Westminster Police Department:

On Friday November 11, 2016 at approximately 9:23 PM the Westminster Police was dispatched to the unit block of Carroll View Ave in Westminster for domestic disturbance at a private residence.

Upon arrival in the area police officers located a 31 year old male identified as Angelo Johnson laying on the parking lot suffering from gunshot wounds to his back and right leg.
 
EMS was summoned to the scene and the victim was transported to University of Maryland Shock Trauma in Baltimore for treatment.

Investigation at the scene determined that Johnson cohabitates with a husband and wife in a townhouse on the unit block of Carroll View Ave.

A domestic argument erupted between the husband and wife. Johnson attempted to intervene and became involved in an altercation with the husband. Johnson was asked to leave the house, which he complied. Once outside the residence Johnson began to flatten the tires of the suspect’s automobile.

The suspect, identified as Dustin A Forson (37) discharged two (2) rounds from a 12 gauge shotgun out a second floor window of the residence at Johnson, striking him in the back and right leg with pellets from the shotgun rounds. Johnson was treated at the scene and transported by EMS. Johnson is in stable condition at Shock Trauma.

The suspect Forson was taken into custody and transported to the Westminster Police Department for questioning.

While in custody Forson complained of pain from a preexisting condition. Forson was transported to a local hospital for treatment.

Forson will be charged criminally with assault in the first and second degree along with Reckless Endangerment upon his release from the hospital.


Citizens who may have witnessed this incident or who have information are asked to contact Det. Todd Rutledge, Westminster Police Department Criminal Investigations Bureau at (410) 8484646, or send a confidential text to 847411, keyword TIPWPD or contact the TIPS line at (410) 8578477.
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Sunday, February 7, 2016

Carroll Co. Md. Times: “Training Day Citizens Police Academy,” By Jamie Kelly, Nov. 17, 2002




Residents get hands-on experience at Westminster Citizen Police Academy

Lori Graham didn't go to jail after she beat a police officer with a baton.
Instead, she graduated with flying colors. Graham was part of the first class to go through the Westminster City Police Department's Citizen Police Academy. She and five others spent nine weeks learning what police officers do. From the first class on Oct. 1, she learned things she never knew about the police department.

But there's no contest for her favorite part of the class. She liked the trip to the shooting range the best, she said. The class had a chance to visit the police training facility in Sykesville and fired a police service pistol.

For many in the class, it was the first chance to fire a pistol. Graham had shot a pistol before, but that was a revolver, not a semi-automatic pistol like police carry. The firing range also had a computer training program called Range 2000. Class members carried a pistol that fired a laser beam. A computer projected different training scenarios on a large screen, similar to a video game, and an officer in the back of the room controlled how those scenarios turned out.

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Update – editor’s note: February 7, 2016 - Someone asked me about the Westminster Citizen Police Academy that we had in Westminster when I was in the mayor’s office. It was a great program. I guess ran it course. I do not know why it was discontinued and I am not aware of when it discontinued. If I recall, we started it shortly after I got into office in May 2001 and if I remember correctly, it stopped shortly after I lost my election in May 2005.

There were some great folks involved. Folks like Randy Barnes, Lori Graham, Tony Ott, Pat Bassler, Jim Pullen, Tom Kowalczyk, Wayne Mann, Mike Bible, and the like. Jamie Kelly wrote one of several great articles and Ken Koons took one of my favorite pictures taken when I was in office.

As for the cops, courts, and crime beat, the Carroll County Times continues its great coverage. Today’s stories are written, in part by Heather Mongilio

I always said that if you can avoid getting totally creeped-out, cops, courts, and crime was a great beat for writing stories. I loved it years ago when it was my assignment. Go here for more stores: http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/news/crime/

Cops, courts, and crime was especially a good beat for those of us who grew-up reading detective stories or “In Cold Blood,” by Truman Capote, or “To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee… and southern gothic literature.

Other examples of authors of the southern gothic genre of writing include William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, and Harper Lee. Tennessee Williams is said to have described the genre as stories that reflect “an intuition of an underlying dreadfulness in modern experience.”

I found this article on my website, but sadly, the link to continue reading the rest of the article by Jamie Kelly no longer works. So I restored the rest of the article here. If I have erred, and someone knows of a link for the rest of the story, simply be in touch and I will take care of it.

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Students had to make spilt-second decisions about whether to shoot. Usually, they were right, but some decisions were tougher than others.

One scenario involved a domestic dispute where the husband refused to put his baby down.

He pulled out a gun, and the students had to decide whether to shoot him.

Graham called the scenarios a revelation. She didn't realize how quickly an officer's job could go from routine to dangerous. Nor did she realize how adrenaline would affect reaction times or shot accuracy.

It also made her senses feel sharper, but she thinks she was quicker to make a decision than she normally would be. When she felt like her life was in danger, even in a simulation, she wanted to protect herself. And, she said, she may have overreacted sometimes, especially by shooting too much.

During the simulations all of the students shot what seemed like a lot of rounds, but Capt. Randy Barnes said they weren't that much higher than average.

He said the average shoot-out involving police only lasts a few seconds, but five to seven rounds are fired.

Most of the shots fired - a lot in some cases - happened within hundredths of a second of each other. But, she said, she could hear each and every one distinctly.

Graham was invited to apply to the Citizen Police Academy, partially because she was active with the Lower Pennsylvania Avenue Committee. The committee was formed to help stop crime and drug traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue.

As executive secretary of Dutterer's Flower Shop and the daughter of the owner - the shop has been in her family since 1919 - she grew up on the avenue, and now she lives there.

She got to see that up close when, as a part of the program, she spent a Saturday evening riding and walking with a Westminster police officer.

The night she spent with the officer was McDaniel College's Homecoming. She had a chance to see officers break up a few scuffles and look for public drunkenness and underage drinking while riding with Cpl. Thomas Kowalczyk.

"He would explain the 10-codes to me - the codes officers use to convey information, 10-4 for example - so I knew what was happening," she said.

On the way back to the station, he spotted a car that looked suspicious. The car was alone in a parking lot at nearly 2 a.m.

He found two juveniles who had snuck out of their houses.

Graham said she was fascinated by the differences between real-life policing and television cop shows, where every case takes exactly one hour. Really, she said, officers jump from call to call and each call can be different.

"One second, you have to be the nice, kind police officer talking to people on the street, and the next you have to be the tough law enforcement guy dealing with people who shouldn't be on the street," she said.

That's where training comes in. Officers are taught the ladder of force. It starts with verbal commands - officers call it verbal judo - and progresses to physical force, pepper spray, use of the baton and finally deadly force.

Students in the Citizen Police Academy had the chance to experience several different rungs on the ladder of force.

In one class, Barnes dressed in a red, padded suit and mimicked attacking the cadets. They used a padded baton to fend him off.

His head, neck, spine, and chest were off-limits for the baton because hitting those areas could cause lethal damage.

But students did hit those areas, usually accidentally.

Barnes said that was an example of how skilled police have to be with the baton. He also said police have to know when the fight is over.

"It's like going from 10 mph to 100 mph in a second," Barnes said, "but then having to slow down from 100 mph to 10 mph just as quickly."

Graham said that during the entire fight with Barnes, which lasted a little longer than a minute, she had no idea what was happening, other than that he was attacking her and she was defending herself.

"If that had been a real attack, I don't think I could have described him to police," she said. "All I could focus on were his hands."

And she was sore the next day from all the hits she gave and received.

But the entire class wasn't about hitting police officers and shooting their guns.

Much of the time was spent in the classroom, but the training was hands-on.

Students learned how to conduct field sobriety tests. Officer Jim Pullen showed the class how to judge if someone is intoxicated through the tests officers use all the time.

Graham said she had no concept of what went into a DUI stop.

"All I knew is what I'd read in the paper - that someone was charged," she said. One night students got to see real drunkards and try out the field sobriety tests.

Off-duty Westminster police officers drank beer and Pullen drove them to the new District Courthouse to take field sobriety tests.

The tests measure balance and motor skills, and officers use the results in court.

A drunken person will react in very specific ways, as Pullen told the class, and the students saw for themselves.

The tests fascinated Graham because she said she was naive about how the body would react to alcohol and what someone who was drinking could and couldn't control.

And she was interested by something else people can't control - fingerprints.

Lt. Wayne Mann of the Criminal Investigation Division taught students how to dust for fingerprints at a crime scene. Then the students fingerprinted each other.

Graham said the process was much easier than she'd imagined, but it was occurring in a classroom, so that helped.

That same evening, Detective Laurin Askew spoke to the class about drugs.

He showed the students pipes, syringes, and bags people use to take and package illegal drugs. All the items he showed the class had been seized in various raids in Westminster. He also showed them samples of different types of drugs.

The sheer amount of drugs seized amazed Graham.

She recognized some of the packaging, though.

She said she used to find the tiny, resealable bags used to package crack cocaine in the alley by her shop. That's been happening less and less, though, she said.

She credits the increased patrols on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Sgt. Mike Bible, community education officer for Westminster police, was so pleased with the way the class came together, he decided to offer the academy again.

He said six people who didn't know each other started to function as a team, and that was part of the intent.

"It was kind of like the real police academy," he said.

And if nothing else, it made Graham more aware of her surroundings.

Not long ago, she was out on her porch, talking to neighbors. She saw a car she didn't recognize drive past twice.

Before, she said, she probably wouldn't have even noticed it.

But since the academy, she has become more observant. She looked inside the car as it drove by and made a mental note of its license plate.

She thinks her new found powers of observation will be helpful to her neighborhood and to the police.

"I won't call the police and say, 'There's a guy walking down the street and he looks strange.'"

But no matter how hands-on classroom training is, it's no substitute for on-the-job training.

Chief Roger Joneckis told the class about a commercial he saw years ago where, after a civilian had spent time riding along with police, the officers turn to the man and say, "Now it's your turn."

And on Nov. 16, it was their turn.

For their last class, students went through real training scenarios.

They handled a domestic dispute, possible drug activity on a playground and a traffic stop.

Beyond their training, Bible only offered one piece of advice.

"Expect the unexpected," he told them.


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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Westminster Police Department Captain Randy Barnes graduates from FBI National Academy July 18, 2007 by Kevin Dayhoff


Dec. 23, 2015: I happened to see Randy Barnes recently. It was good to see him. It reminded me of this story I wrote about many years ago...

Westminster Police Department Captain Randy Barnes graduates from FBI National Academy July 18, 2007 by Kevin Dayhoff http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2007/07/westminster-police-department-captain.html


June is the season when many friends and family come together to celebrate graduations. It was perhaps no different for friends, colleagues, and members of the Barnes family who celebrated Randy Barnes’ graduation on June 8.

All right, maybe it was a little different; for you see Westminster Police Department Captain Randy D. Barnes, at age 50, graduated last month on June 8 from the 229th session of the prestigious FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va., which began April 1. He was presented his diploma by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III. The academy, which began in 1935, has to date, had more than 37,000 persons graduate.

Captain Barnes graduated from Westminster High School in 1976, the year Chief H. Leroy Day retired and Sam R. Leppo was appointed Chief. 

In the past he has taken classes at Carroll and Catonsville Community College, in addition to attending the Western Maryland Police Academy in Hagerstown, MD in 1980. He has also taken a long list of trainings, including courses such as Special Weapons and Tactics School, Investigative & Electronic Surveillance Training, Law Enforcement Executive Development, and Firearms Instructor School.

He has been with the Westminster Police Department 28 years. Much has changed since that hot summer day on August 7, 1979, when Captain Barnes reported for duty when the Westminster Police Department was still located in Westminster City Hall.

This was in the days before the department moved from its two-room office in City Hall to the basement of the Longwell Municipal Center in 1980. When Captain Barnes first joined the department folks taken in police custody were often handcuffed to the radiators in the office or locked in a storage room in the basement.

After the department moved to the Longwell building, its radio communication began providing 24 hour service from a dispatch center that was linked to a new concept called the “911 emergency system.

And in 1981 the department started a “Crisis Response Team.” Captain Barnes was part of that team that was shot at in a 15-hour barricade situation in town on January 30, 1984.

Today Captain Barnes is the Commander of the Field Services Bureau and the Incident Commander for the Carroll County Crisis Response Team. The Field Service Bureau consists of Patrol, K-9, Crisis Response Team, Traffic Safety, Parking Management, and Emergency Management.

The basic foundation of any successful and thriving community is public safety and in the last number of years the changes in the pursuit of public safety have been profound and precipitous.

And one thing that will remain constant in the future is that the changes will keep coming. It is in this light that Captain Barnes said he “jumped at the opportunity (to attend the FBI Academy.) It has been a dream to have the opportunity to go…”

In a recent telephone conversation the first thing that he mentioned is that he “couldn’t have done it without the support of his wife and children.”

As far as the constant changes and challenges facing law enforcement these day, Captain Barnes emphasized, “When you think that you have learned enough to be good at your profession that is when you must realize that there is so much more to learn… One of the major benefits of attending the FBI National Academy was the opportunity to network with law enforcement executives from all over the country – and the world for that matter.”

His dormitory roommate for the 10 weeks at the academy was a lieutenant (Bruce Banks) with the Illinois State Police internal affairs division.

“He was among 300 law enforcement officials from throughout the United States, as well as those from 25 foreign countries -- who attended” this academy session. Appointment of candidates to the FBI academy is a highly selective process. Less than 1 percent of the nation's law enforcement officials are chosen to attend the program,” according to a recent Westminster Eagle news brief.

Captain Barnes said this gave him ample opportunity for networking with other top law enforcement professionals and being exposed to “new ideas…  and getting good ideas from other police professionals who are dealing with similar challenges (as Westminster.) 

“The City of Westminster is not the Lone Ranger when it comes to many of the current law enforcement challenges we face. It was good to gather some insights into what has been tried and worked in other areas of the country facing similar challenges,” Captain Barnes explained.

Law enforcement today is all about ever-changing challenges… And “in an era of decreasingly finite resources the department needs to be constantly focusing on more training and exposing ourselves to new operating efficiencies and cutting edge technologies…”

The academic portion of the day at the academy went from 8 am to 5:30. After dinner, they studied, worked-out and ran to kept in shape, and used the time to work on research papers. His main paper for the session was on “Methods of processing latent fingerprints.”

“I selected courses which will (immediately) benefit Westminster citizens and the department,” Captain Barnes elaborated. The classes, which are academically accredited through its affiliation with the University of Virginia, included legal issues, advanced investigative techniques, police management, professional ethics, and fitness training.

As a result, “Captain Barnes earned undergraduate college credits upon completion of academy courses, which included the following: Legal Issues for Command Level Officers; Labor Law Issues for Law Enforcement Administration; Forensic Science for Police Administrators; Chemical Agents in Law Enforcement; Contemporary Issues in Police and Media Relations; Gangs, Developmental Issues, and Criminal Behavior; and Fitness in Law Enforcement,” according to a news release from Westminster Police Chief Jeff Spaulding.

Chief Spaulding, along with Major Ron Stevens are also FBI Academy graduates; having had the opportunity to attend while they were a member of other police agencies before joining the Westminster Police Department.  Captain Barnes is the first police officer to attend the academy while with the Westminster Department.

Captain Barnes, a Lacrosse enthusiast, said “each week there was a physical fitness challenge. As the weeks would go by the physical fitness challenge would get more difficult. They were all named after characters, events, or features of the Wizard of Oz.”

They included “We’re Not in Kansas Anymore,” the “Tin Man Trot,” the Munchkin Run - 4.2 miles; Journey to Oz - 5.2 miles and finally, the Yellow Brick Road, a 6.1-mile run, once completed, they were awarded a yellow brick inscribed with “FBINA 229.”

One of the highlights of the FBI Academy experience was touring the Marine Corps Museum. Captain Barnes shared that one of the most emotional experiences occurred during Law Enforcement Memorial Week in the early of part of May. 

Three buses of children of police officers who were killed in the line of duty in the previous year visited the Academy and the Marine Corps Museum. They were accompanied by 100 police motorcycle escorts from the departments in which the slain officers served. “I will never forget it,” said Captain Barnes.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Mayor Utz, Councilman Chiavacci, Commissioner Frazier, and Chief Spaulding attended National Night Out in Westminster.


The city of Westminster recently renovated the historic Belle Grove Square. The results are fantastic. Westminster leveraged a grant to do all the improvements. It was money well-spent.

I know all too well that Abby Gruber and the recreation department, Councilman Chiavacci and the common council and Wayne Reifsnider, Larry Bloom, Jeff Glass and the street department worked really hard to get the best bang for the buck.The results are great.

And just so you know, the new benches are awesome. Belle Grove Square is fascinating.

Over the years I have written several articles on the park for the Baltimore Sun - http://www.baltimoresun.com/search/dispatcher.front?target=all&spell=on&Query=Kevin+Dayhoff&sortby=display_time+descending#trb_search and last May I made two presentations on the park. One for the Historical Society of Carroll County and one for the Brethren Church. Next chance you get, go check out the newly renovated Belle Grove Square - it is truly one of the city's magical places.

http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/08/mayor-utz-councilman-chiavacci.html

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National Night Out at Belle Grove Square with the Westminster Police Dept. was well attended and a great success.


The city of Westminster recently renovated the historic Belle Grove Square. The results are fantastic. Westminster leveraged a grant to do all the improvements. It was money well-spent.

I know all too well that Abby Gruber and the recreation department, Councilman Chiavacci and the common council and Wayne Reifsnider, Larry Bloom, Jeff Glass and the street department worked really hard to get the best bang for the buck.The results are great.

And just so you know, the new benches are awesome. Belle Grove Square is fascinating.

Over the years I have written several articles on the park for the Baltimore Sun - http://www.baltimoresun.com/search/dispatcher.front?target=all&spell=on&Query=Kevin+Dayhoff&sortby=display_time+descending#trb_search and last May I made two presentations on the park. One for the Historical Society of Carroll County and one for the Brethren Church. Next chance you get, go check out the newly renovated Belle Grove Square - it is truly one of the city's magical places.

http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/08/mayor-utz-councilman-chiavacci.html

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Sunday, June 21, 2015

"Camp COPS receives generous donation from Koons Westminster Toyota Scion" Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland; June 18, 2015



Sheriff Jim DeWees, along with everyone involved in the Camp C.O.P.S. program, would like to thank Koons Westminster Toyota Scion for their generous support of this summer program.

On Tuesday, June 16th, Nigel Hayes, General Manager, along with Angela Boerner, Controller, presented a check for $5000 to Sheriff Jim DeWees and Sgt Keith Benfer of the Westminster Police Department to help fund the program.

Carroll County Camp C.O.P.S. (COURAGE TO BE OUTSTANDING WITH PRIDE AND SELF CONFIDENCE) is a joint effort between the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, Westminster Police Department, Maryland State Police, Taneytown Police, and the Carroll County State’s Attorney’s Office, and is designed to bring a better understanding of Law Enforcement to the youth of Carroll County, while working in the atmosphere of a Police Academy.

Located at the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster, Camp C.O.P.S. is open to middle school students (those students going into 6th, 7th, or 8th grade).

This year, the Camp will run from July 20th through July 24th.

The donation will be used to purchase many of the items needed to run the popular summer program. This will include equipment and activities for the camp, as well as such items as shirts, hats, water bottles, and food.
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