Precinct 5 PENS January 2020
Welcome to this month’s PENS, Police Email Notification System bulletin. This monthly bulletin is brought to you from the Cobb County Police, Precinct 5 Criminal Investigations Unit (CIU5) and is designed to keep you aware of safety alerts and crime trends in your area and measures you can take to keep you and your family safe.
Public Safety Topic of the Month
Report It
With all the new gadgets and electronics that all of you received from Santa over the Holidays, you need to take advantage of the ReportIt program that is provided to you free by LeadsOnline.
The Cobb County Police Department has a contract with LeadsOnline, a company that collects data on pawned items that might have been taken in a theft or criminal activity. LeadsOnline adds millions of records each day and is used by more than 4,000 law enforcement agencies to recover stolen property and solve crimes.
LeadsOnline also provides a service called ReportIt which is a free, secure, online service allowing citizens to record an unlimited number of serial numbers, descriptions, and upload images of phones, electronics, and other valuables. Should those items ever be stolen, you can share your inventory list with law enforcement and with your insurance company. Citizens wanting to participate in ReportIt can register at reportit.leadsonline.com to begin building their personal property inventory list.
Upcoming Events
Adopt-A-Mile
If you're out and about in our Precinct 5 area (West Cobb), keep an eye out for Keep Cobb Beautiful and Adopt-A-Mile signs! Officer O'Hara, the Precinct 5 Community Affairs representative, was challenged by the Precinct 5 Captain, Captain C.L. Michael, to team up with Keep Cobb Beautiful and adopt a mile. Lost Mountain Road between Bullard Road and Macland Road was selected and a few weeks after meeting with the wonderful staff at Keep Cobb Beautiful, the signs were put in place.
For those of you who don't know, Keep Cobb Beautiful allows the adoption of miles by individuals, groups, companies, or agencies. They require a quick informational meeting where you can discuss safety concerns and take a look at all the resources they have available (Volunteers at Work signs, reflective vests, trash pickers, trash bags, gloves, etc.). From there, they require organized pickups at least once every quarter, but you can certainly go out and pick up trash whenever time allows.
Now that the holidays are over, Community Affairs has selected Thursday, January 30, 2020 from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. to do our first quarterly pickup! If you're interested in getting out in your community, meeting some of our Community Affairs officers, and helping Keep Cobb beautiful, we'd love to have you come out and help us!
Questions or comments? Officer O'Hara can be reached at Sarah.O'Hara@cobbcounty.org.
What You Can Do
Burglary Prevention
- Lock your doors, including the one from the garage
- Keep garage doors closed-check before bed every night
- Motion sensor activated lighting
- Surveillance cameras
Entering Auto Prevention
- Lock your vehicles and remove items of value and items that appear to contain valuables.
- If you can’t keep them with you, secure your valuables in the trunk before reaching your location.
- Keep your vehicle locked and your purse or wallet on your person while fueling at the gas station.
Postal Theft
- Anti-Theft mailboxes with a special locking system
- Security Cameras
- Do not raise the mail flag
- Do not send cash, checks, or anything that has credit card information
Remember to CALL 911 to report any suspicious persons or activity. If you see something, say something!
Cobb County Camera Registry
The Cobb County Police Camera Registration program is a police/community video partnership that operates on a voluntary basis with homeowners, neighborhoods and business owners who own private video surveillance systems. We encourage both businesses and residents to register their cameras online by completing the form below.
This program is intended to let our officers know where cameras are active in the county in case a crime occurs. It is not intended for active surveillance, and officers will not have direct access to homeowners' cameras. Those who register a camera will be contacted if a crime occurs in the vicinity of that camera.
Information provided by residents and businesses will be maintained in a secure database.
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Stay Safe,
Det. Lieutenant J.B Wade
Det. Sergeant W.R. Pettitt
Det. Sergeant R.E. Hecksher
Criminal Investigation Unit Pct. 5
4640 Dallas Highway
Powder Springs, GA 30127
(770) 499-4578