The Spy’s P. Ryan Anthony and WHCP radio’s Jim Brady recently had their quarterly conversation with Cambridge Police Chief Justin Todd.
Topics included the new drone program CPD is putting into action. The aerial devices can be used for multiple purposes around the city, indoors and out, including tactics, communication, and rescue.
In cooperation with the health department’s Sue Radcliffe, CPD officers have been spending lunchtimes with kids at Choptank Elementary School, where students ask them about their equipment and how they became police officers. As part of community policing, the program is a great way to develop relationships with young citizens.
Though they don’t yet have their statistics for the first quarter of this year, some significant issues the department has been dealing with lately are thefts from vehicles, domestic calls, and disorderly conduct. Through proactive means, they hope to keep crime down as the summer approaches.
CPD recently celebrated the female members of the department and their contributions. Chief Todd promised to continue promoting the accomplishments of different segments of the community, especially diversity in the police ranks. Additionally, the chief emphasized the vital part that the civilian staff plays in the day-to-day operation of the department.
The citizen police academy is getting underway and will allow participants to see how the department functions on a daily basis and what training new officers must go through. And recently a number of officer prospects passed the physical agility test and will be proceeding through the process that will hopefully take them on to the police academy.
The video is approximately 11 minutes long.
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