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Before You Comment Here
by turfgrrl
February 18th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Tags: Norwalk
7 Responses so far ↓ “Before You Comment Here”
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Sorry Turf, we do get a little carried away. And thanx for keeping it open!
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Moccia, who attended, said there will be a ripple effect of improved safety throughout the region.
“All of our cities will be safer,” he said.
like he would know about a safe city, odd how he shows up in Bridgeport yet we can never find him here talking about our pressing matters.
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BRIDGEPORT — Once it was the home of Producto Corp. Then it was vacant industrial land. Now it’s on the way to providing greater safety for southwestern Connecticut.
Rising off Pequonnuck Avenue in the city’s South End, a new, 911-emergency operations command and dispatch center is designed to serve 14 towns in the corridor from Stratford to Stamford in the event of terrorist attack, emergency or natural disaster.The facility — scheduled to open in September — was shown off Monday for a variety of media and to Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Norwalk Mayor Richard Moccia by Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch. Lieberman talked about the significance of the region as a high-risk urban area eligible to apply for federal homeland security grants, in part due to this regional center.
“This is not only going to perform service for people in the local area, “Lieberman said. “It’s going to perform service that has national implications.
“We are right on the Sound, we’ve got the Long Island ferry I-95 all the traffic moving between New York and Boston in this corridor. So in terms of terrorism,” he said, “this is a potentially vulnerable area.”
The emergency operations center will come into play in times of natural and manmade crisis, Scott Appleby, the city’s director of emergency management and homeland security, said.
The emergency operations/dispatch center itself will cost about $5.4 million to complete and another $8 million to equip with state-of-the-art
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communications technology. It is part of a $40 million public facilities complex.
The new 15,000-square-foot dispatch center will combine the police dispatch facilities, now in the basement of City Hall on Lyon Terrace, with the 911 emergency response and fire dispatch center, now at fire headquarters on Congress Street.“It will improve communications from Bridgeport down to Stamford,” Appleby said.
Moccia, who attended, said there will be a ripple effect of improved safety throughout the region.
“All of our cities will be safer,” he said.
Tony Spinelli, who covers the region for ConnPost.com, can be reached at 330-6361.
a great article in the Ct Post yesterday
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So Mr Mayor please tell us what we are expecting to see in help on the streets of Norwalk now.
we see Bridgeport police has dogs as well they seem to be meeting the needs of the department.
BRIDGEPORT — City police officers better keep a good supply of dog biscuits on hand these days — the department’s canine force is growing.
Already believed to be the municipality with the largest canine force in Connecticut, the state’s largest city added a sixth German shepherd to the force in December and will begin training another dog soon.The seventh dog is to be a female Labrador retriever named Brooke, and will specialize in sniffing out narcotics, according to Sgt. Kevin Gilleran, commander of the K-9 Unit.
“She’ll detect everything from marijuana to cocaine,” Gilleran said Wednesday at the East Side Precinct, where the K-9 Unit is based.
A detective will be selected to be the dog’s handler this week and then training will begin. The newest dog on the force is Titus, an 18-month-old male German shepherd who was purchased as a puppy in Czechoslovakia for the department by Eric Grasso of Shelton. “He has a great nose. He’s already been out tracking on the streets of Bridgeport,” Grasso said. The dog began duty with Gilleran, his handler, in late December.
The other dogs on the force are Rico, handled by Officer Joseph Morales; Sampson, assigned to Officer Agriberto Rodriguez; Jasper, with Officer Keith Ruffin; Recon, partnered with Officer Andy Talavera; and Luger, led by Officer Mark Martocchio.
Gilleran, who has been on the force 11 years, is the new commander of the unit. The unit has specialized training provided by State Police.
this article was by TONY SPINELLI from the Ct Post
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we are not the only police force with troubles must be the water everyone is drinking.
State troopers on Monday warned lawmakers that there is a discouraging culture of reprisal and intimidation threatening the morale and integrity of the 1,200-member Division of State Police.
Legislators, including Rep. Christopher L. Caruso, D-Bridgeport, co-chairman of the legislative Government Administration & Elections Committee, said they were shocked by revelations of retribution from command staff inflicted on troopers who had pending complaints requiring whistleblower protections.In reaction, John A. Danaher III, commissioner of the state Department of Public Safety, said in an interview that during his 11 months heading the agency he has attempted to change the working conditions and vowed to protect troopers who report the violation of rules and regulations.
Trooper Steven Rief, president of the State Police Union and Sgt. Andrew Matthews joined other troopers, past and present, complaining to the committee that whistleblowers are routinely transferred and intimidated.
“Sadly, some of our whistleblowers have become targets of harassment and intimidation as a result of being a whistleblower,” Rief said during a public hearing
the entire article is in the Ct Post by Ken Dixon obviously a great monday paper to read The Hour was very lean today it was slipped under the front door it was so thin. They do have yesterdays news even if its the weekend its amazing.
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There were more than these two robberies but the Hour chose to cover only two for the weekend we can only wonder why.
Police are investigating a pair of
robberies that occurred on opposite
sides of the city.
Friday night, a man walking home
in South Norwalk was heldup at gunpoint
at the intersection of Burritt
Street and Lincoln Avenue.
The 46-year-old victim said the robber
approached him, pulled the slide
back on his semi-automatic pistol, and
pushed it into his chest.
The robber took his wallet and fled.
Police said the wallet contained cash.
Early Sunday morning, two employees
of the New York Bakery on Main
Street turned over their wallets in separate
confrontations with the same
three bandits, one of whom pulled a
knife.
The incident began when the two
employees, who are cousins, arrived
for work together in a van, and the one
in the passenger seat exited it.
The driver of the van drove to
another location near the business,
which is when a man pulled open the
passenger-side door and stepped
inside. The driver told police a second
man opened the back door, jumped in
and threatened him with a knife.
The driver said he gave them his
wallet, and then one of the robbers
stood in front of his van, attempting to
block his escape. The driver said he
drove forward anyway, got past the robber,
and drove to Burnell Boulevard,
where he called police at 2:58 a.m.
The robbers then encountered his
cousin and assaulted him.
The second victim said he was
struck several times, then pushed face
first to the ground, causing him to
bleed from the nose. He said they took
his wallet and left. -
Why has The Hour stopped covering the police news?
The Advocate did report the news over the weekend even the police report detailed the downtown Sono aassault which left on business with a smashed out window
