• Live Scan / Digital Mug Shot Project

• Mobile Data Project

• Monthly (May 2009) Department Statistics

• 2008 Yearly Department Statistics

• 2008 NYS Department of Criminal Justice Services APD 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.

The Detective Bureau personnel were assigned 60 new cases, closed out 67 previously assigned cases through investigation and arrested 10 adults for criminal activity and applied for 4 warrants for a total of 32 charges.  There were 17 felonies, 15 misdemeanors. 7 juveniles were petitioned to Cayuga County Family Court.

The Identification Bureau was assigned 113 new cases.  Officers processed 30 background checks, issued 1 taxi licenses and oversaw the state mandated reporting of 82 sex offenders residing in the City of Auburn.  Officers processed 47 items of evidence within the Identification Bureau and sent 4 other items out to the crime lab for further processing.                                                                                 

The School Resource Officer program handled 144 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 4 arrests made concerning school related incidents which included 2 adult and 2 juvenile.

The City Jail temporarily housed 9 persons awaiting arraignment in Auburn City Court on various charges.

The Auburn Police Department conducted several details during the month of May to address aggressive driving.  Officers working these details do not answer routine calls for service and are required to patrol specifically for violations of the Vehicle and Traffic Law such as, DWI, speeding, reckless driving, seatbelt violations, illegal cell phone use and other violations of the law.

 Auburn Police Department Statistics For The Year 2008
Gary J. Giannotta, Chief Of Police

AUBURN POLICE DEPARTMENT 2008 Annual STATISTICS (CONTINUED)

Detective Bureau personnel were assigned 706 new cases during the year, closed out 710 previously assigned cases.  Detectives made 110 arrests and applied for 86 warrants for a total of 337 charges.  There were 177 felonies, 149 misdemeanors and 11 violation charges for the year.

The Identification Bureau was assigned 818 new cases during 2008. Officers processed 478 individual background checks, issued 73 taxi licenses and oversaw the state mandated reporting of 73 sex offenders residing in the City of Auburn for the year.  Officers processed 191 items of evidence within the Identification Bureau and sent 219 other items out to the various New York State crime labs for further analysis and processing throughout 2008. 

COMMUNITY POLICING AND SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER INFORMATION

The School Resource Officer  Program handled 1355 incidents in and around school buildings which required intervention by school officers while school was in session during 2008.  The incidents included criminal cases, fighting, bullying and other disruptive behavior.  There were 29 arrests made for the year concerning school related incidents which included 19 adults (ages 16 and older) and 10 juveniles.

The City Jail temporarily housed 200 persons awaiting arraignment in Auburn City Court on various charges throughout 2008.

During the year of 2008 the Auburn Police Department hired four new police officers.  Those officers are currently in the field training program and are not yet eligible for patrol duties.  The department also lost three personnel.  A detective and a supervisor retired and a patrol officer resigned to take a position with another police department.  The department currently has 70 sworn police personnel including the Chief of Police and the Deputy Chief of Police.