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STERLING - Sterling Police Depart-ment, more drug trafficking and gang crime in the context of arrests during 2007, compared to 2006, and administrators believe they have contributed to the alleviation of the fall and domestic violence stopped.

With the help of Rock Falls Police Department, Whiteside County Sheriff’s Department and the rest of the Black Hawk Area Task Force, Sterling’s Police Department has launched a “zero tolerance” attack “on drugs and gangs in 2007.

Adult arrests 6 percent and increased juvenile delinquency increased by 3 percent arrests. It was also an increase of 20 percent of arrests in connection with controlled substances, and 40% an increase in arrests related to marijuana.

According to the division 2007 annual report, published recently, the police has been a decline of 34 per cent of residential burglaries, a decline of 33 percent in construction and automobile burglaries decreased 56 percent Burglaries in business.

“Gangbanger arrest, drugs, and he is the man broke into the homes,” Police Chief pot Hoff, said Ron. “We grew and easier from other arrests.”

Sgt Troy knife was presentations to groups to increase awareness of the links.

“It seems to work well,” said Hoff pot. “People are starting to call us, and then we know where to focus our activities.”

Pot Hoff also credits DARE efforts such as basic education in schools and training courses for Education and resistance in the middle of the school, the Police Department Explorer programme and the jury peer, aid increases in arrests.

Although the number of road accidents has been owns 12 percent, the number of traffic accidents tickets issued has increased by 9 percent and arrests were DUI to 2 percent. Pot Hoff credits trafficking efforts for the implementation of the decrease of road accidents for the third year of law.

After 2007 Sterling Fire Department statistics, calls for fire has been relatively stable over 119 in 2006 to 123 in 2007. Only 52 of them were fires in the structure, the remainder was brush fire or vehicles.

“Overall, it’s a year, but it is also, like hills and valleys. It depends only on the population Ñ if it behave at that time, “Fire Chief Arlyn Oetting said.” There is no particular reason, it is only the general situation of the river, it is for this reason which it upwards and downwards. ”

The number of tenders possible hazardous conditions increased by 51 calls. These calls are still one of the carbon monoxide detectors emits a warning for potential danger.

Starting from January 1, 2007, the mission of the State, that all apartments have a carbon monoxide detector. “We are increasingly at their request, because they have more people,” said Oetting.

The number of false alarms has increased as well. Most false alarms, security systems, which is obscured.

“They call right away instead of trying to control himself, but it’s adequate training, and you do not know,” said Oetting. “All the time, everywhere, it’s the real deal . It is the best, err on the caution. ”

The figures

405 emergency medical calls and

254 false alarms

131 calls for hazardous conditions, but did not fire (oil spills of gasoline, natural gas leaks or carbon monoxide alarm)

128 service calls (investigations into suspicious odors or to help people who need assistance in their country of origin)

Considering pare-123

98 Good intentions calls (calls for help, Rock Falls, it was abandoned on the road)