Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Apr. 2, 2014

Incident Date:
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
                                                                                                                            

The next community meeting at Ingleside Station will be held on April 15, 2014.  Thank you.



Rules and pointers for pedestrians and drivers
Pay attention to reduce your chances of being in an accident
The most important safety tip to reduce pedestrian injuries and fatalities is to pay attention. You can significantly reduce your chances of being in a collision with a motor vehicle by obeying traffic rules and being aware of dangers posed by cars in your vicinity. Make eye contact with drivers if possible and make sure that they can see you.
Both drivers and pedestrians have certain safety responsibilities that depend on both circumstances and common sense.
Drivers must:
  • Yield to pedestrians when crossing a sidewalk or entering an alley or driveway
  • Yield to pedestrians who have started crossing at an intersection or crosswalk on a "walk" signal or a green light, if there is no walk signal
  • Yield to pedestrians who are crossing the highway within a marked or unmarked crosswalk at an intersection where there are no traffic lights or control signals
  • Not overtake and pass any vehicle that stops at an intersection or crosswalk to permit a pedestrian or bicyclist to cross the roadway safely
Pedestrians must:
  • Yield to drivers when crossing a road where there is no intersection or crosswalk or where the pedestrian does not have a green or "walk" signal and where vehicles have a green signal
  • Not suddenly move into the path of a closely approaching vehicle that does not have sufficient time to yield for a pedestrian
  • Walk on and along the left side of a highway when not walking on a sidewalk. Note: This law does not apply to bicycles. Bicycles operate under the same laws as other legal vehicles on the road and should always stay on the right side of the road.
Crime Alert: A grandmother who lives in the Bernal Heights Area was burglarized a couple days ago. Apparently, a man came to her door, saying he worked for PG&E and said he was working on a water line and needed to take some measurements in her back yard. The grandmother said no, but the subject persisted and finally convinced her to do so. The grandmother led him through her house to the backyard where he did in fact take some “measurements”. The grandmother stayed in the backyard watching what was being done.  During this time, while out in the backyard, the subject was talking with someone via a walkie- talkie. After a short while the subject left and that’s when she noticed that her bedroom had been ransacked (drawers open and clothes thrown about) and found that all of her cash was missing. Clearly someone (an accomplice) followed the subject into her house when both the subject and the grandmother were in the backyard. Be aware and use caution, if someone claiming to be a PG&E worker wants to enter your home, and this was not scheduled by you, it should raise a RED flag.  Ask to see some kind of official identification and/or call PG&E and see if this person does in fact work for the company. If the person can’t prove any of the above then call the police immediately. If you know an elderly person that lives alone, maybe a friend or family member, alert them to this scam and inform them not to let anyone into their house.


The San Francisco Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) is free training from the San Francisco Fire Department in how to help yourself and your neighbors prepare for and respond to a disaster by working together. The 20-hour training, taught by First Responders, includes personal preparedness, light search and rescue, disaster medicine, shutting off your utilities, and how to participate as a member of a neighborhood response team.  NERT also offers continuing training for graduates and activities that support building robust neighborhood teams.  For more information, visit the NERT website at http://sfgov.org//sffdnert, or contact Lt. Erica Arteseros at (415)970-2022 or sffdnert@sfgov.org

                                                  Ingleside District Nert Training
Lick Wilmerding HS
755 Ocean Ave

March 18, 6:30-10:00p: Class 1
March 25, 6:30-10:00p: Class 2
April 1, 6:30-9:30p: Class 3
April 8, 6:30p-10:00p: Class 4
school closed April 15
April 22, 6:30p-9:30p: Class 5
April 29, 6:30p-10:00p: Class 6




Are you someone who is interested in disaster preparedness and wants to help out your community while working hand in hand with law enforcement? Then the ALERT program is for you!    
                                
                                            What is the A.L.E.R.T. Program?

The San Francisco Police Department has developed a volunteer citizen disaster preparedness program. The Auxiliary Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) is modeled after and works in partnership with the San Francisco Fire Department's Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT). The ALERT program will train members of the public to assist law enforcement in essential tasks after a major disaster. Such tasks may include: traffic control, foot patrol of business and residential areas, and reporting criminal activity. Volunteers must be at least 16 years of age and live, work, or attend high school in San Francisco.

Three steps to becoming an
A.L.E.R.T. volunteer:
1. Complete NERT training and receive certification. To register for NERT training courses please visit www.sfgov.org/sfnert
2. Once NERT certified, forward a copy of your NERT ID card to the ALERT program. sfpdalert@sfov.org
3. After clearing a basic background check the individual is eligible to register for ALERT training.

The next training class has been scheduled for May 3rd, 2014, from 8:00am – 5:00pm. This class will be held at the San Francisco Police Academy, in the parking lot bungalow.


Arrests:


No Incidents to Report.


Serious Incidents:

7:25pm       2900 Blk Alemany                  Aggravated Assault
Three men and two weapons were involved in a dispute that resulted in gunfire being exchanged and an innocent bystander wounded in a supermarket parking lot. Officers Dilag and Snadow were the first of more than a dozen Ingleside officers and investigators who arrived to process the crime scene. Witnesses and the wounded bystander told police that they observed two men in a SUV and a third man sitting in a compact car in the southwest part of the store’s parking lot. All the men exited the vehicles with one of them holding a black plastic bag. An argument ensued among the three and then one of the two men in the SUV and the driver of the compact car pulled out handguns and exchanged several shots. A stray bullet struck an innocent shopper who had just exited the supermarket. After exchanging gunfire, the three suspects then got back into their two vehicles and fled in different directions. The innocent bystander suffered a non- life threatening wound to the leg and was rushed to San Francisco General Hospital for treatment. Several investigators are assigned to the case and continue to process crime scene evidence and interview witnesses. Report number: 140275359


Vehicle and Other Incidents:

12:35am           400 Blk Velasco                       Recovered Vehicle
  2:00am           500 Blk Leland                         Theft from Vehicle
  6:00am           2800 Blk Diamond                   Municipal Police Code Violation
  7:12am           Brookdale/Santos                     Traffic Collision
  7:53am           1000 Blk Cortland                    Burglary
  8:30am           Avalon/Naples                          Stolen Vehicle
  9:13am           Mission/Russia                          Violation of Stay Away Order
10:10am           2600 Blk Bayshore                   Recovered Vehicle
  1:00pm           1600 Blk Dolores                     Fraud
  1:00pm           500 Blk Persia                          Fraud
  1:10pm           Persia/Naples                           Battery
  3:00pm           Unit Blk San Juan                     Theft from Vehicle
  3:43pm           100 Blk Duncan                       Fraud
  3:59pm           5200 Blk Diamond Heights       Fraud
  5:00pm           200 Blk Bradford                     Stolen License Plate
  6:00pm           Unit Blk Junior Terrace             Dog Bite
  6:10pm           Unit Blk Admiral                       Recovered Vehicle
  6:27pm           100 Blk Schwerin                     Recovered Vehicle
11:00pm           200 Blk Richland                      Stolen Vehicle
11:08pm           Mission/30TH                            Traffic Collision
11:40pm           1800 Blk Sunnydale                 Arson


Burglaries with suspect description:

No Incidents to Report.