Article: Local residents learn ins and outs of Citizens Patrol

By Lindsey Geisler

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Police officers can't be everywhere all the time, and they don't always have the information they need to do their jobs.

That is what more than 20 local residents learned during Saturday's four-hour Citizens Patrol session.

"The police are at the areas where somebody called them," officer Mike Cross explained.

The Topeka Police Department's community policing program, in partnership with SafeStreets, started the Citizens Patrol program about a year and a half ago. It teaches regular people the do's and don'ts of patrolling their neighborhoods and keeping police informed.

"It doesn't matter who's watching," Cross said, because would-be ...

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