Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Mar. 21, 2014

Incident Date:
Friday, March 21st, 2014
                                                                                                                            

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

Attention: There will be a Town Hall meeting to discuss the officer involved shooting that occurred inside Bernal Heights Park on Friday, 03/21/2014. The meeting will take place at Leonard Flynn Elementary School auditorium, located at 3125 Cesar Chavez Street, on Tuesday, 03/25/2014, starting at 06:00pm.



Do you know a high school student interested in learning about a career in law enforcement or public service?  Introduce them to the SFPAL Law Enforcement Cadet program:
Applications are available online for the 2014-15 PAL Law Enforcement Cadet Academy and Internship Program.

The PAL Cadet program includes an intensive 4-week Summer Cadet Academy (June-July) followed by an SFPD station internship and community service (August through May.) Participant’s ages 14-20 may stay in the program for as many years as they are eligible*

Please share this information by:
The deadline for applications is Friday, April 4, 2011 at 5:00pm.  Online application (or downloadable paper application) and flyers are available at www.sfpal.org/cadets.  For questions contact Lorraine@sfpal.org or 415-401-4669.

*Eligibility: must be between ages 14-20,  be enrolled in high school or college, have and maintain a 2.0 GPA, reside or attend school in San Francisco and pass a criminal history background check.

Thanks for spreading the word!



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.

Burglary Alert: A rash of burglaries have been taking place where an odd an unusual technique is being used to gain entry into garages. To date, Ingleside officers have responded to six separate burglary reports that have mostly taken place in the Noe Valley area. Officers have noticed that an unknown suspect(s) has been drilling a one inch diameter circular hole into the top center of the garage door and then using a long hook to pull on the emergency release cord, which disengages the automatic garage door opener. Once the garage door is disengaged the thieves simply lift the garage door and gain entry into the garage and/or homes. Please take steps to secure your garage door. Contact the garage door or automatic garage door opener manufacturer for any preventative safety tips that they may have. Also, if you see anything suspicious, especially at night, at your neighbors’ house or around the neighborhood, don’t hesitate to call the police.

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:

11:04pm     4800 Blk Mission                             Theft
A woman, waiting for her boyfriend to run some errands, decided to wait in their car until he returned. She decided to rest and took a nap. Suddenly, she heard the driver door open and saw an unknown suspect reach in and take her purse. The victim tried to run after the suspect but he was too fast. A witness who saw the incident called the police. Officers Garon-Fermo and Hauscarriague spotted the suspect a few blocks away as he was making his escape with the victim’s bright Yellow purse. Unfortunately, the suspect saw the officers as well and decided to keep running. The officers got on their radios and instructed the responding officers to cut him off. The suspect tried to be slick and hid under some bushes but was quickly found. The officers recovered the purse. The victim and several witness identified the suspect as the one who stole the purse. The victim got the purse and her contents back and the suspect was booked on numerous felony charges. Report Number: 140243801.


Serious Incidents:

No Incidents to Report.


Vehicle and Other Incidents:

  7:30am           200 Blk Cortland                      Stolen Vehicle
  7:52am           1500 Blk Alabama                   Recovered Vehicle
  9:00am           1500 Blk Treat                         Threats
  9:21am           800 Blk San Jose                     Vandalism to Property
10:07am           1300 Blk Brussels                    Theft from Building
11:26am           Sawyer/Raymond                     Traffic Collision
  1:30pm           Unit Blk Persia                          Fraud
  2:30pm           50 Phelan                                 Theft from Building
  4:00pm           St Marys/San Jose                    Traffic Collision
  4:22pm           500 Blk Wilde                          Recovered Vehicle
  4:40pm           Unit Blk Ervine                         Recovered Vehicle
10:20pm           100 Blk Tiffany                         Recovered Vehicle


Burglaries with suspect description:

2:47am                        700 Blk Portola                      Burglary: Suspect #1; White male, approximately 30 to 40 years old, unknown height, Unknown weight and Unknown hair and eye color. Wearing a Black pea coat, Grey scarf, Grey slacks and Brown dress shoes.