Johnson County Sheriff’s Office 2010 Annual ReportMission Statement: To provide citizens with the highest level of law enforcement in a fair and equitable manner. It is our hope that the members of our community will trust us to respond with respect and compassion in their time of need. It is our goal to work proactively with our citizens to keep Johnson County a safe place to live and work.
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It seems as though each year we have talked about the increase in Sheriff sales. This year again showed a significant increase, overall the numberof Sheriff sales have tripled in the last 5 years. Sheriff sales still affectall different areas of the economy which last year ranged from aresidential property which sold for $20,000 to development/commercialproperties which at sale brought in excess of $1,000,000.The other area which has continued to see moderate gains over the lastfew years are for General Executions. General Execution is the legalprocess in which businesses and individuals use to collect monies fromjudgment debtors who are not paying on their civil court judgments.The most common types of general execution are wage and bank garnishments.
Calls for Service 2008 2009 2010 Total Calls for Service 69008 69060 32880
Total 911 Calls 24535 22827 10863
Total land line 911 calls 4532 3858 1550
Total Wireless 911 Calls 20003 18969 9313
EMD (Emergency Medical Dispatch) Calls
1185 1382 265
*These numbers reflect the 6 months that the Sheriff’s Office operated their ownCommunications Center and dispatched for Johnson County SO, Coralville PD,North Liberty PD, as well as Fire and EMS.
July 1 st, 2010 brought about big changes for theSheriff’s Office. Communications combined intothe Johnson County Joint EmergencyCommunications Center (JECC). The tendispatchers that we had and one supervisor
became a part of this new venture. JECCdispatches for all of Johnson County LawEnforcement, EMS, and Fire excluding theUniversity of Iowa Department of Public Safety.
2010 has seen a 15.97 percent increase in average daily population despite a 7.74 percentdecrease in jail bookings. Total jail transports increased by 7.97 percent with the greatestincrease of 28.93 percent for court ordered transports.
The transporting of inmates to other county jails to relieve overcrowding & separation issues
increased by 12.33 percent. The Jail Inspector recommends this movement whenever requiredseparation cannot be met at the Johnson County Jail. Cost to house inmates out of countyincreased by 38 percent. This results in additional cots of $363,228.00.
With our communications center having been relocated this has opened up space within theSheriff’s Office to be utilized as a booking/intake area for housing newly arrested persons.The project has completed its planning phase and it is anticipated that construction will beginin 2011
Warnings Total Calls for Service 12411 13829 14519
Hours of Training 2696 2495 2365
*This number reflects verbal warnings as well as written warnings. Verbal warnings werenot included in previous years stats.
Patrol Division The Patrol Division provides primary law enforce-ment protection for the unincorporated areas of Johnson County. Patrol also provides contractuallaw enforcement protection for Hills,Lone Tree, North Liberty, Oxford,Shueyville, Solon, Swisher, and Tiffin.Deputies are also responsible for patrol-ling 36 miles of interstate highways, 54miles of state highways, and 909 miles
of county roads. Specialty units withinthe Patrol Division include a K-9 unit,the Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team(SERT), Water Search and Rescue, andthe Johnson County Metro Bomb Squad.
During 2010 the men and women who comprise the JCSO Reserves
served a combined 3,435.25 hours between paid and volunteer shifts.This excludes the estimated 1000-1500 hours of training that werecompleted during the same time period. Volunteer time comprised 37%of the total hours, followed by Reservoir (paid) and 32% and other paidassignments at 31%. The increase in paid events compared to otheryears is partially due to the jump in contracted assignments andassistance requests from other agencies as well as the JCSO charging forevents that were done on a volunteer basis in the past. Theseassignments included Solon Beef Days, Lone Tree Fall Festival, TiffinFest, Regina Fall Fun Fest, Johnson County 4H Fair, and U of I
Football games. Some highlights for the year included providing trafficcontrol for President Obama’s motorcade, certification of 12 reserves bythe Iowa Law Enforcement Academy, ILEA, as Reserve Peace Officers,certification of five personnel by ILEA as bike patrol officers, and ateam of Mike Sieverding, Josh Kirchner, and Jeff Wells placing secondin the State Reserve Officers Competition Shoot at ILEA.
In 2011 we strive to do the following: Increase the number of volunteer hours donated Support all divisions of the JCSO as requested Use the Bike Patrol program as a community relations tool and
establish it as a key community policing program and integralpart of providing enforcement and presence at town festivals andthe 4H Fair
Provide more regular reserve presence in the Jail and on Patrol Ensure that persons who are eligible are able to become weapons
qualified so that they may continue to advance within the ReserveUnit
Encourage JCSO Reserves to join the Iowa State Reserve OfficersAssociation and attend their trainings and meetings to betterunderstand legislation affecting Reserves in the State of Iowa
Determine if there is a potential for shared resources or trainingopportunities with other area reserve units