Fremont Police volunteer coordinators threw a carnival style party to honor and thank our dedicated volunteers this week.
On Wednesday evening, Fremont Police staff took the opportunity to recognize our amazing, hard-working volunteers, who, over the past year, have given over 17,034 hours of their time to help the department and the Fremont community (or approximately $57,000 worth of free help!). We’d like to share some of the highlights from the last year:
VIPS (63 total, with an additional 23 candidates currently in training…set to graduate in May)
Our patrol volunteers help us through enforcing Handicapped Parking laws, assisting with Neighborhood Crime Watch presentations, and distributing crime alert bulletins. They also help by joining in searches for missing persons, providing traffic control at crash scenes and other major incidents, and respond to requests for neighborhood patrol checks, vacation checks, and report suspicious activity.
We have specially trained VIPS who faithfully make daily Y.A.N.A. (You Are Not Alone) calls to our elderly or disabled citizens of Fremont. This program has wide-reaching effects, and has been steadily gaining attention from other law enforcement agencies around the country (who have sought our assistance in rolling out the program at their agencies).
We currently have 27 VIPS certified to assist with the Radar Trailer Deployment; the team deploys the radar trailer to neighborhoods throughout the City, Monday thru Friday, all year round (holidays excluded).
Our volunteer graffiti abatement teams work hard to cover all the graffiti in our city—and have painted over 5,900 graffiti tags over this past year.
Explorers (19 total)
Ten new Explorers joined us in the spring of last year, and several candidates are currently in the background process now. We are looking forward to their contributions to our Post.
They have helped with various tasks and community events throughout the year. They’ve added boot-shining to their list of skills, and have faithfully shined boots weekly to raise funds for the post.
Animal Shelter (21 total)
We had 14 new volunteers begin work at the Animal Shelter in 2015.
Because of the generosity of our volunteers, we have been able to attend numerous adoption events in our represented cities. In the past year we have successfully placed 1,324 dogs and cats with a new forever home or a rescue group. We also found placement for over 30 small animals and birds. There is no way we would have this level of achievement without our volunteers!
Other Units
We have an additional 13 volunteers (8 of our VIPS and 5 additional volunteers) who help in Community Engagement, Crime Analysis, the Crime Lab, Investigations, and Records.
We absolutely could not do the work we are able to do without their help!
Thank you, FPD Volunteers!!!
