Crime & Safety
Lakeville Police Commemorate National Police Week
Chief Vonhof: "[On] Wednesday, May 15, all of our officers wore black mourning bands over their badges in memory of all the police officers who have made the ultimate sacrifice in protecting the citizens that they serve."
[Last week] was a very special week for all police officers in our country. This [was] the week that we remember those Law Enforcement officers who have given their life in the line of duty. In 1962 President John F. Kennedy signed a proclamation that designated May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week in which that date falls as National Police Week.
On this past Wednesday, May 15, all of our officers wore black mourning bands over their badges in memory of all the police officers who have made the ultimate sacrifice in protecting the citizens that they serve. In past years, we have had officers stand honor guard duty at the Minnesota Law Enforcement Memorial located on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol on May 15 as well. To date this year, 41 police officers in our country have died in the line of duty. In 2012, 120 Law Enforcement officers gave their lives in the line of duty.
POLICE WORK IS DANGEROUS FOR K9s TOO
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This past week Officer Jason Jensen and his K-9 partner, Zeus, were called to assist Burnsville Police Department with the search of a business that had just been burglarized. The burglars had apparently entered by breaking a glass window. The officers and Zeus entered through the window and Zeus cut his nose on the broken shards of glass. The cut was deep enough that it required a trip to the emergency vet clinic for sutures to close the wound on Zeus’s nose. Officer Jensen reports that Zeus is healing well and should be back on duty within a few weeks.
SUBJECT TURNS HIMSELF IN AT LPD
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It does not happen too often in police work, but occasionally a person with an arrest warrant out for them will come to the police station and turn themselves in. That is exactly what happened this past week when a subject walked into the LPD lobby to turn himself in on an active arrest warrant out of Goodhue County. Officer Chris Gartzke met with the subject and arranged for the subject to post the bail amount and to set a court date for the subject to appear on the charges. The subject posted the bail and left with a court date in hand.
WEEKLY SNAPSHOT
Sampling of LPD activity for the week of May 8 – 14, 2013
Traffic crashes 5 Alarms 20 Animal Calls 41 Medical Emergency Calls 34 Thefts 17 Traffic Stops 116
