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Volume 3, Issue 1

January 2005

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NEW PPD OFFICER

Pottstown Police Department welcomes it's newest officer in January.  On Monday January 3rd, Officer Jason Sedgwick will begin his career as a Pottstown Police Officer.  Officer Sedgwick, a 26 year old resident of Allentown, graduated from Parkland H. S. in 1996 and from the Allentown Business School with an Associates degree in 2003.

Officer Sedgwick was hired to replace PPD Corporal Kevin Keifrider, who retired last September.  Officer Sedgwick is slated to "hit" the streets in late July, after attending the Montgomery County Municipal Police Officers' Training Academy.

With the hiring of Officer Sedgwick, the 2004 Pottstown Civil Service Commission's Eligibility List will be exhausted.  The Commission is currently in the testing process for the creation of a new eligibility list.  Once the list is established, PPD will be hiring two new officers to increase our total officer compliment to forty-one.  With the hiring of these two new officers, a four year plan to increase Pottstown Police Department staffing to a compliment of forty-seven officers will begin.

PPD Officer Jason Sedgwick

 

 

 

 

 

NEW RECORDS DIVISION ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT II

 

Pottstown Police Department welcomes Kathleen Hafer to our Records Division.  Ms. Hafer was hired in the 4th quarter of 2004 to fill a vacancy created when long-time Borough employee Dolly Johnson retired.

 

Ms. Hafer, a resident of Douglassville, comes to us with a great deal of records and organizational experience after spending several years in the Reading Police Department Records Division and as a stay-at-home mom.

 

Administrative Assistant II

Kathleen Hafer

 

 

CALLS FOR SERVICE - OCTOBER 2004

 

During October 2004, the Pottstown Police Department answered 1,843 calls for service.  Of these calls, 1,828 occurred in the Borough. (Note: The remaining 15 calls were requests for assistance by other Police Departments or other Law Enforcement Agencies.)

 

During the month we averaged 59.45 calls per day or, 19.82 calls per shift.  For the year we have answered 17,396 calls.  The daily average for the year is 57.04 calls per day or 19.01 calls per shift.

 

During October 2003 we answered 1,649 calls. We answered 194 more calls this month than last October.  This is an increase of 11.76% from last year.  For the year (2004) we answered 581 more calls than this time in 2003.  This represents an overall increase of 3.45%.

 

JANUARY SAFETY TIP

 

Winter Weather Safety and Awareness

 

 

JANUARY 2005 EVENTS (Special Events in Green)

(Detailed List Below)

 

 

POTTSTOWN HUMAN RELATION COMMISSION PRESENTS:

 

A dialogue - regarding homosexuality and religious faith - between Dr. Tony Campolo and his wife, Peggy Campolo, on Thursday, January 13, 2005 at 7:00 PM at the Congregation Mercy and truth Synagogue - 575 N. Keim St.

 

Dr. Campolo is a nationally regarded speaker, a noted evangelist, an American Baptist clergyman, a professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University in St. Davids, PA, and the author of many books.  Mrs. Campolo is a writer and editor, a member of evangelicals Concerned, has been on the council of the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists, and is active in Soul Face.  This married couple of 45 years is living proof that it is possible to disagree about same-gender relationships and yet stay in their own relationship.

 

 

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