• Live Scan / Digital Mug Shot Project

• Mobile Data Project

• Monthly (October 2008) Department Statistics

• 2007 Yearly Department Statistics

 

      In August of 2004 the Auburn Police Department was awarded a competitive grant from the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) under the Byrne Grant Program for the Store and Forward Implementation Expansion Project.  The grant award was $45,790 with a matching fund amount of $15,263 provided by the Auburn Police Department for a total project cost of $61,053.   This project will allow the Auburn Police Department to implement Livescan Technology for the electronic capture and transmission of arrest fingerprints, data and mug shots to the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services and the Federal Bureau of Investigations. 

This technology will assist Auburn Police Officer's with the prompt processing of a defendant, accurately recording their fingerprints and mug shot in a digital format and then electronically sending these fingerprints to the states Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations where the fingerprints will be compared to other prints on file verifying the defendants identity and alerting the arresting Officer of any outstanding warrants within New York State and across the country.  This process and the response from DCJS will be received within a matter of minutes instead of the weeks a response would take when fingerprints were rolled with ink and sent through the mail.

The Auburn Police Department will be securely linked with Onondaga Counties "Store and Forward Server".  This among other features allows our Officers to access the mug shot database of all other agencies submitting through Onondaga's server.  These agencies include Onondaga County Sheriff's Department, Syracuse City Police Department, Camillus Police Department, Dewitt Police Department, Manlius Police Department, Oswego City and Sheriff's Departments, Baldwinsville Police Department, Cicero Police Department, Clay Police Department and SUNY Hospital Police.  With this added mug shot database searching capability, our Officers can more quickly identify criminals that come into our City from elsewhere.  Officers will also be able to pull up these mug shots from within their patrol cars using our Mobile Data Terminals which are installed in all Patrol vehicles.

The Auburn Police Department has chosen the vendor ComnetiX Computer Systems to supply our agency with the equipment and software technology necessary to complete this project.  ComnetiX principal business is the provision of advanced biometric, hardware-independent, FBI standards-based verification and identification software solutions. Since its inception in 1980, the company has become a leader in the development of state of the art networked criminal intelligence systems.  They currently have several installations operating in New York State.  They include Suffolk County, Albany Police Department, Erie County, Broome County Sheriff’s Department.

The Auburn Police Department is anticipating a grant contract to arrive from NYS DCJS in the near future and once this arrives our agency plans on the immediate purchase of the software and equipment needed to implement this project.  Our goal is to have this project in place and our staff trained by the beginning of January 2005.

     The Auburn Police Department recently was awarded $ 38,110 as a continuation of the COPS '98 federal technology grants for law enforcement. This award will allow the upgrade and completion of the Mobile Data Terminal (M.D.T.) Project Phase. This phase is but a portion of the Auburn Police Department's planned modernization and technology advancements for the new millennium. These planned advancements of using technology to increase law enforcement effectiveness allows individual police officers to lesson the amount of necessary paperwork and dedicate that saved time to be more proactive to community needs.

The award allows the police department to finish the installation of mobile data terminals in all patrol vehicles. It also allows for the purchase of 3 personal computers to enhance the system within the operations areas of the department. Since the inception of the M.D.T. project, the Auburn Police Department has benefited greatly from the enhanced ability of officers on the street to access the departments records management system for information. Addresses and descriptions of persons on files, outstanding warrants, motor vehicle information via state D.M.V. files, information on property owners and business owners and other information that is invaluable to street police operations, is now at the officers fingertips.

The M.D.T. Project has also enabled officers to complete routine reports in their patrol vehicles and download those reports onto a disk in the police cruiser. The disk is then downloaded and printed by personal computers at headquarters at the completion of the officer's shift. Officers can receive voiceless officer safety and general information from headquarters and can communicate sensitive information to headquarters and to other officers on the street through the messaging function.

Furthermore, the technology involved in the M.D.T.'S has freed dispatcher time by allowing the officer on the street to bypass the dispatcher to retrieve needed information. This enables the dispatch function to be less hectic during peak call loads and reduces stress levels in both the officers and the dispatch personnel.

The inception of E-911 within Cayuga County, in which the City of Auburn is located, is scheduled within eight to twelve months and should open further opportunities for linkage of mobile data technology on a county-wide basis with the County Sheriffs Office.  In the future, if funding sources are available, a complete transition to a networked system for the entire police building utilizing p.c. workstations, inclusive of all personnel, is envisioned. This networking will allow the flexibility of a p.c. Windows system to be linked to the present in-house records management system. The current records management system for the police department operates in an AS-400 environment and is available in the M.D.T. system in all patrol units.

Detective Bureau personnel were assigned 66 new cases, closed out 82 previously assigned cases through investigation, petitioned 4 juveniles to Cayuga County Family Court, and arrested 10 adults for criminal activity and applied for 13 warrants for a total of 60 charges.  Detective Bureau personnel made arrests for 24 felonies, and 34 misdemeanors and 2 violation.   The Detective Bureau received 6 domestic violence cases from patrol division for further investigation. 

The Identification Bureau was assigned 59 new cases.  Officers processed 30 background checks, renewed 14 taxi licenses and oversaw the state mandated reporting of 75 sex offenders residing in the City of Auburn.  Officers processed 7 items of evidence within the Identification Bureau and sent 35 other items out to the crime lab for further processing.                                                                                 

The School Resource Officer program handled 171 incidents in and around school buildings which required intervention by school officers.  The incidents included criminal cases, fighting, bullying and other disruptive behavior.  There were 3 arrests made concerning school related incidents which included criminal cases, fighting, bullying and other disruptive behavior.  There were 3 arrests made concerning school related incidents which included 2 adults and 1 juvenile.

The City Jail temporarily housed 13 persons awaiting arraignment in Auburn City Court on various charges.

 Auburn Police Department Statistics For The Year 2007
Gary J. Giannotta, Chief Of Police

AUBURN POLICE DEPARTMENT 2007 Annual STATISTICS (CONTINUED)

The uniformed Patrol Division responded to 1,403 motor vehicle accidents with 141 of those involving personal injury.  Patrol Officers issued 2,219 uniform traffic tickets, made 100 driving while intoxicated arrests, executed 709 arrest warrants, served 609 court protection orders and subpoenas, and responded to 1,637 incidents of domestic violence.  Officers responded to 537 intrusion, panic, hold-up alarms from residences and businesses.  Patrol Officers also responded to 651 reported 911 hang-up call dispatched through the Cayuga County E-911 Center.  The Traffic Unit conducted both seat belt and aggressive driving enforcement details in cooperation with the New York State Police and the Cayuga County Sheriff's Department.  Department personnel engaged in 140 presentations and police building tours for various community groups.  The presentations included safety talks, child fingerprinting and ID card making along with K-9 demonstrations.  The Patrol Division assisted in 201 standby/prevent breach of peace requests concerning domestic violence related issues.  Officers were involved in 250 assists to other Police Agencies, responded to 1,750 reports of disorderly conduct, fights and noise problems.

The City Jail temporarily housed 134 persons for the 2007 year.

Detective Bureau personnel were assigned 631 new cases during the year, closed out 588 cases.  55 juveniles were petitioned to Cayuga County Family Court, and 391 adults were arrested.   Detective Bureau personnel made arrests for 144 felonies, and 188 misdemeanors

The Identification Bureau had 781 new cases assigned, sent 215 cases to crime labs throughout the State for technical processing, processed 488 individual background checks, processed 69 cases for latent fingerprints and arrested 7 registered sex offenders for failure to comply with the state mandated reporting requirements.

COMMUNITY POLICING AND SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER INFORMATION

The Police Departments 5 School Resource Officers assigned to the 8 Auburn Schools reported 213 incidents requiring their services.  Included in those 213 incidents were issues involving student bullying, larcenies of property, criminal mischief, disorderly behavior on school property which resulted in 11 adult arrests.  The school based officers referred students and parents to appropriate school services and community service agencies for assistance.  The school based officers also made arrests for incidents involving criminal law violations in and around school property and school functions within the community.  The School Resource Officers also instructed students in alcohol abuse and dating violence prevention.

The department implemented a motorcycle patrol for warm weather months and updated it's computer related activities.  The Police Department hired two new Officers and maintained it's previous staffing of 69 sworn officers.