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Overtime shift officers would seek out and enforce underage consumption/possession violations. In regards to procuring or providing alcohol to minors' violations. Our department has had very good success in plain clothes surveillance details at our liquor stores. Officers observe unusual activity that has lead to a good number of arrests both for procuring for minors and underage possession of alcohol. In the past, these details were also funded partially by Safe & Sober and partially by the City. Without additional funding this enforcement activity is likely to be curtailed. The goals of this component are to reduce the number of juveniles on the streets after curfew and thereby reduce the number of crimes committed by some of these youths. Another goal is to detect and cite more juvenile alcohol offenders and give more of a perception of the likelihood of arrest for such violations. Finally, the last goal would be to stop some of the source of the alcohol for the youth and to publicize those arrests in an effort to even further reduce these violation. i h rh rim R i n P r ! The third component is Neighborhood Crime Reduction Patrol. As previously mentioned, this activity would work in correlation with the juvenile curfew activities and would attempt to identify and apprehend people responsible for thetis, tampering with motor vehicle, vandalism, and damage to property. Currently we have a large number of these types of crimes in the neighborhoods close to the center of the City. This activity would target specific neighborhoods within the City. These areas would be targeted by 1) crime reports in the neighborhoods and 2) by contact with citizens who do not wish to report the crime, but want officers to be aware of the problems in their neighborhoods (much of this type of information is obtained through other COP activity). Another aspect of this component would be to spend more time being seen in the targeted neighborhoods. Officers would spend more time in the neighborhoods talking to residents and obtaining useful information to help with the apprehension of the lawbreakers. Many of our rural residential areas and rural developments do not have a problem with the types of problems that this activity is designed to address. This project would again operate primarily during the warm weather months but would also be used when incidents rise in a specific areas any time of the year and would not be limited to the above stated crimes only. The goal in this component is to reduce the number of crimes (listed above) in the neighborhoods having high incidents of these crimes and to apprehend the offenders. We believe that it is more likely that the crimes will be reduced significantly with the curfew enforcement than with the apprehension of the offenders. Business Center Concentrated Patrol The fourth component is Business Center Concentrated Patrols. The area covered by this activity would include two primary areas of the City. One is the new mall area and the adjoining mall and business areas located on northbound Highway 169. The second would concentrate on the business district located on east Highway 10.