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Article: Local residents learn ins and outs of Citizens Patrol
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- February 18, 2007
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By Lindsey Geisler
SPECIAL TO THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
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 ...