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neighborhood more secure. Staff hit the ground last Thursday morning going door-to-door to speak with residents of <br />the neighborhood. The Seniors on Patrol Team has spent additional hours patrolling the identified area of Taney to <br />Highway 99, and Barger to Royal, keeping a keen eye out for suspicious behavior. The efforts reach beyond that of <br />just the EPD as Bethel School District, whose area is affected by this most recent trend, agreed to partner with the <br />department by distributing crime prevention information to district families. <br /> <br />Along with the one-on-one contact by staff, a community meeting was held on Wednesday Oct. 3, at Fairfield <br />Elementary for both area neighbors and all interested community members to follow up with additional prevention tips <br />and to discuss crime trends throughout the city. With nearly 100 citizens in attendance and through the continued <br />partnership with Bethel Schools, which provided the technology to allow the presentation to be offered simultaneously <br />in Spanish, the meeting was a success. <br /> <br />This week, strategic meetings and all the hard work with statistics proved successful when only three burglaries (a <br />dramatic decrease) were reported and all three resulted in arrests. One of the arrests was the direct result of an <br />observant neighbor who told officers the reason he called police to report the suspicious behavior was due to <br />information he had heard from the Crime Prevention outreach. <br /> <br />For more information, please contact Crime Prevention Sergeant Lisa Barrong at Lisa.R.Barrong@ci.eugene.or.us or <br />541-682-8248. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 4 <br />October 4, 2012 <br />