Incident Date:
Friday, April 4th, 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
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:
4:16pm 700 Blk Girard Drugs
Police Officers learn that when something doesn’t look right many times it isn’t. That was true for Ingleside Officers Thompson and Quintero who were on patrol when they saw what appeared to be a taxicab, with a driver and passenger, and with half its vehicle registration tabs scraped off. The taxi didn’t have any required medallions or registration and a computer check revealed that the cab’s vehicle registration had expired in January of this year. The officers stopped the car and asked the driver for his license and he admitted he was unlicensed and in fact had no identification in his possession. He said the car didn’t belong to him and that he was on parole. He also had an outstanding $20,000 warrant for his arrest. The passenger was also unlicensed and had a pipe in his pocket used for smoking narcotics. A search of the vehicle’s trunk turned up a quantity of methamphetamine packaged for sale along with approximately $116 in cash. The officers also found a stolen checkbook and a stolen Niemen Marcus credit card in the trunk. Both men were taken to Ingleside Station and booked on a variety of charges. The cab company said they no long owned the vehicle having been sold several months ago. Report number: 140280405
Serious Incidents:
1:30pm 100 Blk Mateo Attempted Fraud
Ingleside Officers Campos and Duffin investigated another troubling case involving someone asking for money while pretending to be a peace officer. The officers interviewed the husband of a hearing impaired woman who got a call from a man who said he was “Sgt. Jackson of the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department.” The caller said that his wife failed to report for jury duty and needed to pay $500 or she would be found guilty of avoiding jury duty. He instructed her to go to a local pharmacy (Walgreens or CVS) and purchase a $500 money card and then call him back with the card’s identification numbers. The husband called police instead. Officers Campos and Duffin relayed the information to the Ingleside Station Investigative Team. Report number: 140280079
Vehicle and Other Incidents:
10:30am Precita/Bryant Traffic Collision
4:00pm 1600 Blk Geneva Theft from Vehicle
4:15pm 1600 Blk Geneva Vandalism to Vehicle
4:20pm Alemany/Seneca Traffic Collision
6:00pm Santa Ynez/Capistrano Stolen Vehicle
7:00pm Unit Blk Manchester Theft from Vehicle
10:00pm 200 Blk Seneca Stolen Vehicle
10:00pm 1500 Blk Geneva Vandalism to Vehicle
10:03pm Mission/Cesar Chavez Theft from Vehicle
Burglaries with suspect description:
No Incidents to Report.
