Tag: safety

  • Holiday Safety Tips from Hollywood Park’s Police Lieutenant

    Holiday Safety Tips from Hollywood Park’s Police Lieutenant

    by Executive Lieutenant Vance Chandler, Sacramento Police Department, South Command

    My name is Vance Chandler and I serve as your area police lieutenant, responsible for Police Districts 4A and 4B.

    As your area lieutenant, it is my honor to serve you and your families. My commitment to you is to do my best to keep you all informed and provide any support you may need. I send out frequent emails about our neighborhoods and updates on our police department. If you would like to be added to the email list, please email me at vchandler@pd.cityofsacramento.org

    For a short message from your area captain, who I work directly with, please watch this short 33 second video: Captain Adam Green – South Command

    Practice Safety During the Holidays

    We are in November and the holidays are approaching quickly. Here are some tips to help protect you and your property during this time of the year.  

    Vehicle Safety

    • Don’t leave valuables in your vehicle
    • Don’t leave your vehicle running and unattended
    • Be alert and look around your car before entering it
    • Park in well-lit areas or under lamp posts at night
    • Make sure all of your vehicle doors are locked before you park
    • If your vehicle is equipped with an alarm system, be sure to activate it when you park

    Personal Safety

    • Carry a cell phone with you and report suspicious behavior to our police department. Our non-emergency number is (916) 808-5471. For emergencies, call 911 immediately
    • Be alert and avoid displaying or carrying large sums of money
    • Use a credit card to purchase items and keep a record of all card numbers at home
    • Beware of strangers approaching you. Thieves may try to distract you with the intention of taking your valuables
    • Don’t carry anything in your purse that you can’t afford to lose

    Delivery Safety

    • Schedule deliveries when someone is home to receive the package
    • Use tracking numbers and email/text notifications to closely monitor when packages arrive
    • Have packages delivered to a workplace or apartment lobby where someone can sign for it
    • Connect with neighbors, friends and family members to make arrangements to sign for and receive packages           
    • Be a vigilant neighbor. Report all suspicious activity, including any strangers potentially casing in your neighborhood

    Online Safety

    • Only shop on trusted websites
    • Don’t click links in emails.  Identity thieves are creating emails that look like they are from trusted companies, but clicking links may infect your computer with malware or give the thieves access to passwords
    • Be sure to keep everything including passwords and computer software up to date
    • To keep your bank account safe, use credit or prepaid cards to purchase items

    Some Helpful Links and Resources for You

    Daily Activity Log

    E-notify

    Bike Registration Portal

    Press Releases

    Helicopter Activity

    Interactive Crime Map – By District – Find My Service Area – Mental Health and Firearm Related Statistics

    File a crime report

    Vacation Safety

    Traffic Concerns
    Email: trafficcomplaints@pd.cityofsacramento.org
    Phone: (916) 808-3777

    Sign up – Sacramento Region Emergency Notification System

    Nextdoor

  • Update letter from Freeport Blvd Transportation Safety Committee

    The following is an update letter from the Chair of the Freeport Blvd. Transportation Safety Committee. This content is provided as a replacement for the presentation scheduled for the Cancelled HPNA March General Meeting.

    Greetings, neighbors:

    We hope you are all coping as best as possible with the changes thrust upon us during these unprecedented times. As a silver lining to all of this, it seems at least in my observations, more and more of our neighbors are out walking and vehicle travel has been drastically reduced. It seems as if its a good time to reflect on how our roads might better serve us as not only drivers, but as walkers and bicyclists. The world will be changing in ways we can’t even begin to imagine, but as it does we must do our best to imagine and create the changes we want for our own community.

    With that, we are super happy to release the final version of the Freeport Boulevard Walk Audit Report (click on link here to download). This report includes a description of the May 2019 walk audit and the findings and recommendations of WalkSacramento based on the community input from that event. In addition, the report also includes a summary of the findings from the Freeport Blvd. Transportation Survey. Special thanks goes out to all of you who could attend the walk audit and to all of the FBTSC members that attended meetings and were able to assist in developing and analyzing the survey and reviewing and editing the report.

    A draft of the walk audit report, along with a plethora of letters from many of you, was submitted by the city as part of an grant application to seek funding to study, among other areas, the Freeport Blvd. commercial corridor from Sutterville Road to Blair Avenue to develop a transportation plan focusing on safety, mobility, and access along the corridor.

    We are expecting to hear back about whether the city is awarded the grant sometime this spring. We’ll keep you all posted. Also, as soon as we are all feeling comfortable and safe enough to have public meetings, I hope to present the walk audit report to our neighborhood associations.

    If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

    John Maradik-SymkowickChair,
    Freeport Blvd. Transportation Safety Committee
    Freeport.Trafficsafety@gmail.com