Wednesday, July 23, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansar
Police assigned foot patrol
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Officers walking on the job
By Dana Spoor Staff writer
Police officer are walking around campus. Not because they have nothing to do, but because they want to be more available to the public.
Sgt. J. Brothers of the University of Kansas Police Department said the officers started foot patrol in mid-January after changes in the schedules for all commissioned officers.
"We made some adjustments to make sure the community needs were met." Brothers said.
the schedule changes involved switaching officers from shift to shift. The 'A' "shift runs from midnight to 8 a.m.; the 'B' "shift runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and the 'C' "shift runs from 4 p.m. to midnight.
The need for officers on each shift changes from day to day. Brothers said.
said.
"The midnight shift has its peak on weekends," he said. "The afternoon
shift is almost a straight line with a few peaks in the middle of the week.
The "B" shift is busier during the week; slow points are on the weekends because more people were on campus during the week. Brothers
While reviewing the schedules, the KUPD made some changes. As a result, there were more officers on a shift than there were cars available. Brothers said that there were three to five cars out at a time.
However, Brothers said, this was intentional. The idea was to make officers more accessible to the public.
"It is not like they are assigned to one area," he said.
The officers are not restricted to the area they cover. The campus covers 1,000 acres and brothers said they also cover the whole area in one shift.
patrol; they are rotated within their shifts.
Brothers has not heard any bad comments from officers who have been on foot patrol. The officers are not permanently assigned to foot
Brothers worked on foot patrol before the shift became a full eight-hour shift and he said he liked it a lot.
"You have more contact with the public," he said. The whole idea behind foot patrol is contact with the public, he said.
Crime usually peaks in November. In November, 1855, 155 crimes were committed; in July, only 46 crimes were committed. The crime rate always goes up in November. Brothers said, because of Christmas.
Manpower goes down in the summer because police officers take their vacations, Brothers said. And, because there are fewer students on campus, the crime rate also goes down.
Brothers said that even though the number of people on campus was lower, the number of dispatched calls remained fairly even. Officers in patrol cars received about 8,800 calls in October and about 6,700 in June.
State buckles down on new law
United Press International
TOPEKA — In the first two weeks of the state's new mandatory seat belt law, Kansas Highway Patrol troopers issued 1,744 warning citations to Kansans who didn't buckle up. the patrol reported yesterday
Highway Patrol Sgt. Bobby吉 said yesterday that the number represented warning citations issued in the state's nine patrol divisions to motorists who were pulled over for speeding, not wearing their seat belts.
Giffin said enforcing the law had been difficult because a trooper could issue a warning citation only in conjunction with a separate traffic infraction.
The two-week-old law's success is still unmeasured, Giffin said. It will
one several more reporting periods to determine whether Kansans are complying with the new seat belt law.
Although the majority of the warning citations were issued to drivers, the statistics included tickets written to about 90 front-seat passengers. The citations will be replaced by $10 tickets beginning July 1, 1987.
The statistics show that non-compliance with the new law was not restricted to any particular area of the state. Division 1, representing the most warning citations, 279, in the first weeks of July.
Division 5, which represents the Wichita area, reported that its troopers issued 175 warning citations, while troopers in Division 7,
which is the Kansas Turnpike, wrote
99 warning tickets.
Motorists in the Kansas City area, Division 9, were issued 239 warnings during the first two weeks that the law went into effect.
The remaining statistics are: Division 2, north central Kansas, 173; Division 3, northwestern Kansas, 237; Division 4, southeast Kansas, 237; Division 5, southeastern Kansas, 229; Division 8, the state's security system, 139.
Giffin said the statistics didn't include warnings issued by local police and law enforcement officials. The Highway Patrol has and will continue to promote the new law through open public service messages, he said.
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