Please see the Crime Solver’s Flyer below in reference to a commercial armed robbery that occurred on 06/23/16 in College Park. Investigators are still attempting to identify the suspect.
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LiveScan Fingerprinting
Changes to state law effective January 1, 2013 allow police officers to issue citations in lieu of arrest for certain offenses that previously required full arrest and processing at the station. However officers are still required to take offenders to District 1 or Upper Marlboro for fingerprinting and pictures.
In meetings with both UMD Police and PGPD, the idea of being able to do this in or near College Park was brought up as an excellent way to eliminate lost patrol time for officers.
Special equipment is available to expedite fingerprint processing. A digital fingerprint processing system, called LiveScan is recommended by Police. The LiveScan system will enable police to process arrestees in a more efficient manner. It will enable officers to return to patrol activities much faster.
The LiveScan system will cost about $25,000. city intends to use the unspent funds in last season’s snow and ice control budget. The funds will be used to reimburse the University of Maryland Department of Public Safety for the purchase of this equipment, which will be hosted at their police station. The equipment will be available for use by our City Contact Police and other police agencies.
Here is a video explaining Maryland’s new scooter and mopeds.
Dubbed Operation Blue Tide, the PGPD and Metro Police will jointly start a campaign to outreach the Metro riders to curb crime in Metro’s PG county stations today. Here is more.
Homicides sore in PG
As a new summer season is upon us, it’s not only bringing warm weather, but also a rise in violent crimes in the area.
According to this report, area’s homicide figure has risen to 28% in the past month, 46 in total. Last year, the figure was 36.
College Park and the surrounding area had 8 homicides last month.
Back in January, area saw 13 killings in the first 2 weeks – that is almost 1 killing a day. A University of Maryland student was one of those killed in that period.
College Park’s community liaison officer J. Black will be at the NCPCA meeting this month (June 9) to update residents more on the recent crime activities and ways to prevent them in this summer season.
Prince George’s Police
The Council had its second and final work session on budget recently and made a few changes to the proposed FY 2012 draft budget.
The most significant of largest of which was a substantial increase for additional City contract police, which we are using the speed camera revenue to pay for.
Most of these items will come from revenue the City was able to reallocate due to the additional public safety funding from the speed cameras.
Funds that the City would have otherwise spend on contract police this year will go into undesignated reserves, and then be available to spend next year.
The changes fall within the guidelines laid out in the FY2012 draft budget:
An increase of 0.72 FTE in Contract Police Officers (in Public Services, Speed Enforcement, program 2025) to certify speed enforcement camera citations
The changes related to the public safety program in the FY2012 draft budget includes:
- An additional $150,000 for part-time contract police coverage.
- About $35,000 for the hiring of a part-time public safety coordinator, to assist the Neighborhood Watch coordinators and act as a liaison with the police.
The City of College Park does not have a police service. The city residents pay nearly $1 million to hire 6 contract police officers (3 pat time and 3 full time) from the county and the best way to find these recruits is through a staffing agency that can find lots of candidates. They are doing this because the police service from the county’s regular police PGPD is not enough.
Fight Crime
In March 2011, 58 crime incidents have been reported in north College Park.
When compared with the February data, the figures have gone down slightly (from 62 to 58), yet the incident figures are way too high for a small neighborhood like ours, with an average of 2 incidents happening every day on average.
The high crime figures should only remind us the importance of getting involved in activities such as Neighborhood Watch program.
March crime data has the following breakdowns across types of calls.
Assault: 3
Break and Entering: 5
Recovered Stolen Auto: 4
Robbery: 1
Stolen Auto : 9
Theft: 11
Theft from Auto: 18
Vandalism: 7
| Date | Time | Type of Call | Address |
| 3/1/2011 | 2012 | Stolen Auto | 9500 Block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/2/2011 | 2149 | Theft From Auto | 9000 Block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/2/2011 | 1722 | Theft | 9000 Block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/3/2011 | 1303 | Robbery | 9000 Block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/3/2011 | 1120 | Stolen Vehicle | 9300 Block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/4/2011 | 1700 | Vandalism | 9300 Block CHERRY HILL RD |
| 3/5/2011 | 2257 | Vandalism | 9200 Block SPRINGHILL LN |
| 3/6/2011 | 1814 | Assault | 4800 Block HOLLYWOOD RD |
| 3/6/2011 | 1631 | Theft | 9600 Block 52ND AV |
| 3/8/2011 | 1251 | Theft | 9800 block 49TH AV |
| 3/9/2011 | 738 | Theft From Auto | 9500 block 48TH AV |
| 3/9/2011 | 813 | Theft From Auto | 9100 block 49TH AV |
| 3/9/2011 | 838 | Theft From Auto | 9500 block 49TH PL |
| 3/9/2011 | 850 | Theft From Auto | 4800 block HOLLYWOOD RD |
| 3/9/2011 | 1133 | Theft From Auto | 9000 block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/10/2011 | 1002 | Theft From Auto | 9600 block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/11/2011 | 1310 | Theft From Auto | BALTIMORE AV/ CAP BELT IL NO HY |
| 3/11/2011 | 2120 | Vandalism | 9300 block CHERRY HILL RD |
| 3/12/2011 | 1446 | Theft | 4700 block CHERRY HILL RD |
| 3/12/2011 | 1003 | Stolen Vehicle | 10000 block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/14/2011 | 1236 | Theft | 9300 block CHERRY HILL RD |
| 3/15/2011 | 1622 | Breaking & Entering | 9300 Block CHERRY HILL RD |
| 3/15/2011 | 2121 | Breaking & Entering | 10000 Block 52ND AV |
| 3/15/2011 | 1733 | Theft | 4700 Block CHERRY HILL RD |
| 3/15/2011 | 1707 | Vandalism | 9500 Block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/15/2011 | 1353 | Stolen Auto | 9500 Block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/16/2011 | 1250 | Assault | 9900 Block RHODE ISLAND AV |
| 3/16/2011 | 618 | Theft From Auto | 9900 Block 51ST TE |
| 3/16/2011 | 804 | Theft From Auto | 9500 Block 50TH PL |
| 3/16/2011 | 818 | Theft From Auto | 4800 Block INDIAN LN |
| 3/16/2011 | 940 | Theft From Auto | 4800 Block FOX ST |
| 3/16/2011 | 1043 | Theft From Auto | 9700 Block 52ND AV |
| 3/16/2011 | 1220 | Vandalism | 9700 Block 52ND AV |
| 3/16/2011 | 2130 | Stolen Auto | 9500 Block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/17/2011 | 1003 | Theft From Auto | 10000 Block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/18/2011 | 1303 | Vandalism | 10000 Block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/18/2011 | 1848 | Stolen Auto | 10100 Block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/18/2011 | 1540 | Recovered Stolen Auto | 10000 Block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/18/2011 | 1608 | Recovered Stolen Auto | 5200 Block HURON ST |
| 3/19/2011 | 945 | Theft | 4900 Block LACKAWANNA ST |
| 3/20/2011 | 2140 | Theft | 5200 Block KENESAW ST |
| 3/21/2011 | 809 | Theft From Auto | 4800 Block ERIE ST |
| 3/21/2011 | 1609 | Stolen Auto | 9400 Block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/21/2011 | 1630 | Stolen Auto | 9400 Block RHODE ISLAND AV |
| 3/22/2011 | 640 | Breaking & Entering | 4900 block HURON ST |
| 3/22/2011 | 550 | Theft From Auto | 4700 block CADDO ST |
| 3/24/2011 | 1412 | Breaking & Entering | 4700 block MUSKOGEE ST |
| 3/24/2011 | 1727 | Breaking & Entering | 9400 block 52ND AV |
| 3/25/2011 | 1923 | Theft | 4900 block IROQUOIS ST |
| 3/26/2011 | 1439 | Assault (Arrest) | 10000 block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/26/2011 | 1917 | Vandalism | 9300 block CHERRY HILL RD |
| 3/27/2011 | 1821 | Stolen Auto | 10000 block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/29/2011 | 751 | Theft | 6000 block SPRINGHILL DR |
| 3/29/2011 | 1609 | Theft | 9800 block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/30/2011 | 728 | Theft from Auto | 3600 block MARLBROUGH WY |
| 3/30/2011 | 1355 | Theft from Auto | 9700 block 52ND PL |
| 3/30/2011 | 2050 | Recovered Stolen Auto | 10100 block BALTIMORE AV |
| 3/30/2011 | 2230 | Recovered Stolen Auto | 9100 block BALTIMORE AV |
Vehicle theft
The Prince George’s County Police Department (PGPD) is urging citizens to be aware following a series of thefts that have occurred at gas stations.
In these cases, the suspect will wait for the victim to leave their vehicle unattended and use this opportunity to steal their valuables/purses. These occurrences have taken place during the morning and evening rush hour time frames.
The police is asking residents to use caution by:
• Being aware of your surroundings
• If you must leave your vehicle unattended, please lock the doors
• Do not leave your valuables in a conspicuous place where it is easily accessible for the suspect
Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the Prince George’s County Police Department’s District I Investigative Section at (301) 699-2601. Callers wishing to remain anonymous may call Crime Solvers at 1-866-411 TIPS (8477) or text “PGPD plus your message” to CRIMES (274637) on your cell phone or go to http://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/police/ and submit a tip online.
- Neighborhood Watch
As our area is getting hit with an extraordinary amount of crime incidents lately, so arises the need for engaging of city residents into crime fighting activities.
There will be an important training event for Neighborhood Watch participants from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 10th, 2011 at City Hall.
The training will include development of observation skills and reporting suspicious activity and crime to the police.
Special training for Block Captains will be provided for those interested, using the College Park Woods’ Neighborhood Watch Program as a model/template.
Major Hector Velez, the new Commander for PGPD District 1, is planning to come and meet us there, now that Major Liberati has been transferred.
I know there is a scheduling conflict with the NCPCA’s monthly March meting on the same night, but in case you decide to attend, please be at the City Hall at this great training event!
Hector Velez
After serving only 9 months as the District 1 Police Chief, Mr. Liberati is leaving his post.
Capt. Hector Velez, a 16-year veteran of the Prince George’s County Police Department will assume the rolw of District 1 Commander role.
Earlier, Mr. Velez was assigned to the District 1 substation, which includes Hyattsville, Langley Park and surrounding areas, for two years before he was transferred to Police Chief Roberto L. Hylton’s office in April to serve as the chief’s executive officer.
Mr. Velez has agreed to come to NCPCA’s March 2011 meeting (on March 10) and speak to North College Park residents.
Mr. Leberati was at NCPCA’s last October meeting and answered residents’ questions.
Capt. Velez, 44, who joined the county police force in 1994, focused proactively on quality-of-life issues, including overcrowding, drinking and urinating in public, gangs and crime. He emphasized the value of having police and the community work together to solve problems and has led Citizens Advisory Committee meetings in his district.
On Mr. Velez’s new role, the outgoing Police Chief Maj. Liberati said : “”A lot of the community around here … is very Hispanic,” Liberati said. “Velez will provide a dimension that I cannot.”