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Middletown police report February drop in calls and crimes; new records system cited
Summary
Police staff told the Middletown Police Commission that February calls for service and several crime categories declined compared with January, and members cautioned that a countywide records-management migration on Feb. 10 likely affected the figures and officer productivity.
Middletown Police Commission members heard that the department handled 1,907 calls for service in February — a 16% drop from January’s 2,271 calls — and that several crime and enforcement categories declined in the same month while the department migrated to a new countywide records management system.
The statistics were presented by a police department staff member who cautioned that February’s data “may not be a % accurate, because February 10 we merged our records management system,” and said some figures could be adjusted as the department reconciles records from the old and the new systems.
The department reported 24 Part 1 crimes in…
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