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Richmond police and fire give staffing, crime and preparedness updates at RNCC meeting
Summary
Richmond police reported active hiring, reduced counts for several Part I crimes and expanded camera use; Richmond Fire briefed neighborhood councils on recent calls, new equipment and a youth academy, and the departments outlined programs for smoke detectors and community emergency response training.
Richmond Police Department and Richmond Fire Department briefed neighborhood leaders on staffing, crime trends and preparedness at the RNCC meeting on Monday.
Lieutenant Decius of the Richmond Police Department said the department currently has eight officers in field training and four trainees in the academy while continuing active recruitment to fill about two dozen vacancies. He said parking-enforcement staff perform a range of duties including encampment response and that one parking-enforcement representative has recently resigned.
Decius gave trend figures for recent months: a roughly 40% reduction in assaults, a 22% reduction in robberies, a 36% increase in burglaries, and decreases of about 25% in thefts and 23% in vehicle thefts. He said the department’s ShotSpotter activations are down 21% year to date…
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