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<br />Police Squad Car Maintenance Team Featured in Publication <br />Eugene Police Department’s (EPD) Squad Car Maintenance Team is featured in a recently published National <br />Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS) booklet, Volunteers in Police Service Add Value While Budgets Decrease. To help <br />agencies think creatively about potential volunteer roles, this latest VIPS publication highlights innovative ways <br />agencies around the country are engaging citizens and increasing their reach in the community. EPD has a number of <br />volunteer programs that add incredible value to the organization and free up time for officers and detectives to work <br />proactively to reduce crime. <br /> <br />EPD’s volunteer teams are greatly valued by the department. For instance: <br /> <br /> <br />Squad Car Maintenance Team <br /> Implemented in 2004, the saves EPD $54,000 annually. Fifteen retirees <br />inventory and restock patrol vehicle trunk supplies, perform minor maintenance and repairs, wash vehicles <br />inside and out and shuttle vehicles needing service to the City ‘s Fleet Shop. Prior to creating the team, paid <br />mechanics had to shuttle the vehicles. <br /> <br /> <br />Seniors on Patrol Team <br /> Among other duties, the volunteers issue warnings and citations to violators of <br />signed disabled parking spaces. In 2010, the team issued 650 warnings and 335 citations ($190/citation). <br /> <br /> <br />Police Range Recycling Team <br /> A was created in July 2010. Volunteers assist with a variety of sorting, <br />recycling and other support duties at Short Mountain Range. To date, 2,025 pounds of brass and aluminum <br />collected at the range have been taken to Schnitzer Steel and generated $3,453 for the City of Eugene. <br /> <br /> <br /> Since April 2010, volunteers have been serving subpoenas to victims and witnesses. Prior to the formation of <br />Subpoena Service Team <br />the , most of the more than 1,000 subpoenas served annually were processed by a <br />paid contractor. In the team’s first 12 months of operation, the volunteers served 1,447 subpoenas at a <br />savings of $41,963. The contractor was paid $29 per subpoena. <br /> <br /> <br />Image Retrieval Team <br /> Based on requests for service from EPD officers and detectives, volunteers retrieve <br />surveillance videos (relating to property crimes) from businesses and lodge them into evidence. In 2010, the <br />volunteers retrieved 154 videos. <br /> <br /> <br />Cold Case Squad <br /> A was formed in 2010, with the goal of improving the capacity of the Eugene Police <br />Department to investigate and solve cold cases through a team of volunteers. Three law enforcement retirees <br />investigate cold cases and a retired teacher provides administrative support to the team. <br /> <br /> <br />focused crime prevention operations targeted at <br /> Together with employees, volunteers participate in <br />property crimes hot spot areas <br />. Through this partnership with volunteers, department resources are <br />expanded. EPD is able to reach more citizens and provide them with important crime prevention information <br />and services. <br /> <br />The EPD has openings on the Squad Car Maintenance Team, Seniors on Patrol Team and Subpoena Service Team. <br />Those interested should contact Carrie Chouinard at 541-682-5355 or carrie.f.chouinard@ci.eugene.or.us or go to <br />www.eugene.or.gov/policevolunteers for more information. <br /> <br />Record Original Poetry at Eugene Public Library <br />All poets are invited to come to the Eugene Public Library to record original poetry for a new online archive. Oregon <br />Poetic Voices is traveling around the state collecting poetry readings for all to enjoy. To record poetry, drop in to the <br />Downtown Library on Thursday, Dec. 15, between 6:00 and 7:30 p.m., or Saturday, <br />Dec.17, between 3:00 and 4:30 p.m. <br /> <br />The Oregon Poetic Voices Project, funded by the Library Services and Technology Act <br />2010, builds on three major existing collections of recorded Oregon poetry: two <br />decades of sound archives of the Fishtrap Writers' Gathering in Wallowa County, <br />collected by Rich Wandschneider; 15 years of weekly interviews conducted by <br />Barbara LaMorticella and Walt Curtis at KBOO radio; and recorded archives at Sandra <br />Williams' long-running Mountain Writers Project. <br /> <br />Among them, these archives contain recordings of almost every significant Oregon poet of the last quarter of the 20th <br />Century, along with a good selection of recent innovators and creative spirits in the increasingly diverse world of <br />Oregon poetry. <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 2 <br />December 8, 2011 <br />