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The Columbia Star SC Newt SEPTEMBER 25. 2009 - 13
Columbia Police Department
meets to fight crime
By Cathy Cobbs
Where else can one hear
the following stories all within
one hour and in one room?
• A planned land mine
explosion at Fort Jackson Army
Base.
• Several snatch-and-drag
purse thefts in the Columbia
area.
• A shooting at Club Level,
a Blanding Street nightspot that's
known for violent activities that
seem to occur frequently around
its 3 am dosing time.
• The arrest of a woman
attempting to shoplift two pairs
of high-heeled shoes at an area
Belk's store by stuffing them
down her shirt - an incident that
ended up in a full-scale fight
between her and store police.
At the Columbia Police
Department's bimonthly meet-
ing with area commanders and
surrounding law enforcement
agencies, wherein the crimes are
reported and strategies dis-
cussed about how to handle var-
ious crimes around the city. This
particular gathering was at Gon-
zalas Gardens off Forest Drive,
but are normally held at police
headquarters on ]ustice Square.
"It's a great way to analyze
crime and compare notes in
order to get a big picture of
what's going on," said Police
Chief Tandy Carter. "We find it to
be very helpful."
The meeting is filled with
some interesting and some-
mundane reports from represen-
tatives of each patrol region in
the city- metro, south, west, and
north - as well as an analysis of
what is being done to deal with
spikes in particular crimes dur-
ing two weeks between meet-
ings.
For example, Metro region
Capt. Scott Desrochers,
explained that in order to help
fulfill his region's stated goal to
cut crime by 50 percent, he is
putting a bike patrol on the
streets where officers will travel
"from the zoo to the university to
Two Notch Road" to help raise
poli6e presence in areas that
have been hit recently by resi-
dential burglp_ries.
Carter also asked
Derochers to set up a meeting
with the owners of Club Level, a
nightclub that the captain said
"seems to have some sort of fight
every time they close and put
people out on the street."
"We need to meet with
management and have a discus-
sion about what is going on in
their club," Carter said.
And there was this report
from West Region Capt. M.E.
Johnson: a woman allegedly
attempting to shoplift a pair of
high heels from an area Belk
Store got into a "physical
encounter" with two of the
store's loss prevention special-
ists.
"She put one of the shoes
in her purse and then stuffed the
rest of the shoes down her shirt,"
Johnson said. "In the confronta-
tion (with the loss-prevention
specialists) there were some
clothes thrown, a physical
encounter, and she is now in
jail."
Other reports included:
• the south region's crowd-
control strategies for Thursday
night's University of South Car-
olina-Old Miss football game.
"Thursday is a big event
and will be quite a challenging
day," Carter said. "We want to
have as many people as we can
out of their, cars and very visi-
ble."
• a success story regarding
the surveillance cameras recent-
ly installed in Five Points, which
help lead to the arrest of a man
who allegedly broke into several
commercial establishments in
that corridor.
• an analysis of a
three-month special operation
in the Bethel Bishop and Colony
Apartments, which netted 47
arrests and the confiscation of
dozens of firearms.
The meetings are open to
the public.
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