Police Programs - New Police Web Page
I don’t like computers. I don’t like handheld PDA’s. I like paper. It’s there and I can see it and refer to it. My handheld keeps giving me the blue screen of death. I found that this is a bad thing. This time change messed up all my appointments. Some say that I am old. So be it. The Police Department is going paperless. I am told I need to get with the times. Everything can be done without pen and paper nowadays. I have even begun using the web page and found it easy to do.
The new web address for The St. George Police Department is sgpolice.org. One can simply type in www.sgpolice.org and the computer brings up a page that lists many features including the following:
*Anyone with a warrant issued in a court in our area is listed here alphabetically. A name can be searched for current warrants. I typed in my last name and found that there are 3 Harding’s listed with warrants. (Thankfully, they haven’t caught up with me yet). We are hiring 2 full time officers to serve the several million dollars of outstanding warrants issued for those who fail to take care of the little things. These little things will catch up with them at a time that will certainly be inconvenient for them. If your name is listed here, you can pay the warrant online so that you won’t be suddenly jerked from your routine one day when you least expect it. If you see that your neighbor has a warrant, you can call in on the anonymous tips line listed so that they can be picked up and their warrant taken care of.
*If a cell phone or PDA is lost or stolen and a report is needed for insurance purposes, there is an online form to submit your own police report. A serial number, make and model is entered and an incident number is given. This number is needed by the insurance or phone service to process your claim.
*If you liked one of the weekly articles but didn’t get to cut it out of the paper, you can click on the article and print it off.
*If you want to know who to tell about the drug house down the street, the stop sign that nobody obeys, or the loud party every Friday night and want something done about it, you can click on the CAT Team map for your area of town and directly e-mail the officer that patrols your neighborhood. You will get an answer.
*To protect yours or your child’s new bicycle, you can go online and register the bicycle with the police department. Simply fill out the few boxes with the make, model, and serial number and hit “Submit.” We now have a record of the owner so that when we pick it up a few blocks away because your child left it there and didn’t bring it home, we can get it back to you. From time to time bicycles are turned in that cannot be released because we have no way of verifying ownership.
*There is a listing at the bottom of the page to see the daily news. This is a record of the calls that police responded to during the evening or over the weekend and the good things that never make the daily papers.
*Under “Public Information” there is information on how to start a Neighborhood Watch on your street or in your neighborhood. You can contact “your” officer to come to your neighborhood meeting to explain the crime statistics and the police activity in your area of town.
People frequently ask what they can specifically do when we ask for help. Using the web page to be more involved to report minor crimes, to contact “your” officer to report problem areas and conditions is one way to get things done quicker.
Sgt. Craig Harding
Public Information Officer
St. George Police Department
435-703-1276
charding@sgcity.org |
