Clyde Hill News: Crime prevention help available
Also: Paycheck fraud at City Hall
This week’s issue focuses on police and public safety. Clyde Hill Police can now help residents with “how to improve private property… to prevent and reduce crime.”
More detail on that topic below, along with a recap of the most recent Clyde Hill police blotter.
City Hall will be closed Thursday November 23 and Friday November 24 for Thanksgiving next week. The plan is for this newsletter to take next week off for the holiday.
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Disclaimer: while I am a councilmember on the Clyde Hill City Council, I write this newsletter in my capacity as an individual resident. Any opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the position of the city. City information and references here are from public sources. I welcome email responses — and if the topic is about city business I will respond from my city email account.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
Clyde Hill Police Officer Jennings “can advise [residents] how to make their residences less attractive to criminals,” according to Chief of Police Kyle Kolling.
“Residents can now make appointments with him to come out and evaluate their property for safety,” according to the Chief, who described this new service at a city budget meeting in August:
From a Clyde Hill PD Facebook post on the topic (link):
Recently, Officer Jennings obtained his professional designation in Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED). This certification allows Officer Jennings to consult with property owners, residents and public officials and provide insight on how to improve private property and public spaces in order to prevent and reduce crime.
Police blotter
Safety always comes up when I listen to residents talk about why they like Clyde Hill and chose to live here. Consistent with what residents care about, the City of Clyde Hill spends about half its budget on public safety.1 Costs to residents here include courts, jails, prosecutors, and public defenders.
Every month at the city council meeting, Clyde Hill’s Police Chief Kolling offers an update on police activity and training. You can read his full report for October here (link).
From a resident’s point of view, some items of interest from the most recent police update.
Domestic violence
Officers responded to two domestic violence calls in Clyde Hill. One resulted in an arrest and was sent to the city’s prosecutors; at the other call, the “suspect left before [officers] arrived, property damage found, no injuries. Sent to prosecutor for referral.”
Paycheck fraud at City Hall
A city employee’s paycheck went to a fraudulent account following an unknown suspect changing the employee’s direct deposit information.
Hit & run, and other vehicle incidents
Officers responded to a hit & run on 92nd Ave near 32nd St:
Cars were picking up kids on the lid and 1 vehicle hit another and drove off. Cameras showed suspect vehicle and they were contacted.
Separately, officers cited a driver who “pulled in front of a dump truck/work truck and was hit” on 92nd Ave near 20th St, and also responded to a two vehicle collision on 92nd Ave NE near 28th St.
Drivers booked
Officers booked two individuals with outstanding warrants into jail after stopping their vehicles for other reasons.
At two other traffic stops, drivers were “cited and charges forwarded to Prosecutor” for driving with license suspended.
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Dean Hachamovitch