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Bozeman Police Officer Bryan Adams, now in his eleventh year of teaching Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) has instructed this curriculum to several thousand third and fifth grade students. Officer Adams continues to bring his dynamic and personable style to the classroom and is teaching in all elementary schools within the City of Bozeman and continues expanding classes into Gallatin County schools to include Three Forks, Big Sky, Amsterdam and Willow Creek. test
The county-wide popularity and high level of support for the D.A.R.E. program is due to the popularity of Officer Adams. In addition to developing important educational information covering Drug and Violence Resistance, the students and their families have an outstanding opportunity to develop a positive relationship and image of area law enforcement officers and programs. This relationship plays a very important role in developing Community Oriented Policing Strategies and positive relationships from which every officer and citizen benefits.
The D.A.R.E. program, the pioneer prevention effort founded in Los Angeles in 1983 and started in Bozeman in 1991, is going high-tech, interactive, and decision-model-based. Gleaming with the latest in prevention science and teaching techniques, D.A.R.E. is reinventing itself as part of a major national research study that promises to help teachers and administrators cope with ever-evolving federal prevention program requirements and the thorny issues of school violence, budget cuts, and terrorism.
Gone is the old-style approach to prevention in which an officer stands behind a podium and lectures students in straight rows. New D.A.R.E. officers are trained as "coaches" to support kids who are using research-based refusal strategies in high-stakes peer-pressure environments. New D.A.R.E. students are getting to see for themselves -- via stunning brain imagery -- tangible proof of how substances diminish mental activity, emotions, coordination and movement. Mock courtroom exercises are bringing home the social and legal consequences of drug use and violence.
With research showing that adolescents, in particular, need to be involved in the learning process, experts shifted the focus in the new D.A.R.E. curriculum to include officer-facilitated work, discussion groups, and role-playing sessions. "The resulting group dynamic' of New D.A.R.E. encourages kids to work together on assignments and think for themselves," says Dr. Sloboda, "New D.A.R.E. is about giving kids the skills and information they need to make good life choices."
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The approach that these outstanding officers have been taking in regards to parking issues in Bozeman is pro-active enforcement and education. Our parking division consists of four full time officers (with only two currently filled) who work closely with patrol officers, the parking commission and the citizens of Bozeman. When an officer writes a parking citation for wrong-side parking, or any of the 28 other parking violations it's an educational tool that leads to safer parking practices. When a person parks facing the wrong direction, that person has already crossed against traffic initially to park, and now will repeat this when pulling onto the street. This creates a hazard and has resulted in collisions. When a vehicle is blocking a sidewalk, a citizen is forced to walk out (or a child rides a bike) and around, often walking into the street. The goal in parking enforcement is to provide for safe movement of pedestrian and vehicle traffic. The parking officers also assist private property owners by responding to their complaints. The parking enforcement officers issue citations for all city violations, but have a few areas in town with selective enforcement. One of these areas is the MSU residential parking district. The goal on enforcement in this area is to help maintain a common-sense balance between residential parking needs and parking demands of MSU students, visitors and staff.
A second area of enforcement is the downtown area of Bozeman, ensuring that visitors and shoppers have reasonable access to parking. This ensures rotation of parking spots. All parking enforcement officers helped control parking in the High school district. One of our biggest challenges is the increasing number of abandoned vehicle complaints. Removing unattractive, nuisance and potentially dangerous vehicles from the streets and parking lots improves the overall quality of our neighborhoods. As a result, more parking is available. The parking division handles over 900 abandoned vehicle complaints each year. It takes a minimum of two hours of officer time to mark, impound and sell a vehicle. The use of the County Junk Vehicle program to remove junk vehicles helps save the department and city taxpayers costs related to impounds. Each year the department holds several vehicle and/or bicycle auctions.
Parking officers contribute greatly in improving safety for both pedestrians and vehicles as well as improving the overall appearance of Bozeman. Thanks to their diligence, patrol officers are not overburdened with parking complaints.
ANIMAL CONTROL
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The Bozeman Police Department currently has 1 full time Animal Control Officer, with some part-time assistance from a Parking officer. Our approach to animal control is to utilize a problem solving & education in handling animal complaints. When an animal is found at large or mistreated, we take the time to educate the pet owner in an effort to help develop respect for animal welfare. One of the educational methods used involves distributing a handout detailing the animal ordinances for the City of Bozeman and Gallatin County. These are distributed to pet owners, Veterinarians, public offices, and pet related businesses in the area. The Bozeman Police Department's animal control officers have had several sad cases involving pets, but also had many successful and happy ones too. In one case, pets were left without food and water during a long trip arriving in Bozeman in very poor shape; resulting in cruelty charges and seizure of the animals. In another case a dog that had been living on its own on the streets of Bozeman for 7 months was captured and then adopted to a responsible and caring home. At the same time, the amazing population growth of Gallatin County has caused an overall increase in animal complaints. While our animal control officers do their best to handle this increase; many of these complaints came in during weekends and off hours, when patrol officers step up and do their best to provide assistance.
IF YOU HAVE AN ANIMAL COMPLAINT:
* Have detailed description of the location or address
* Have detailed description of problem animal and what the problem is
* Anticipate giving your name, address and phone number. This is necessary if the ACO has to issue a citation to the pet owner.
* License plates of dog owners who leave the area after an offense can be helpful, including a good description of the owner
* Call 582-2000. If an ACO is not available, either the call will be forwarded for handling at a later time (non-emergency, on-going problems) or a patrol officer will respond to handle the emergency.