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Sorry about the echo, guys.

All right, welcome uh to Middletown Police Department Public Safety Commission meeting uh May 18th uh 2026.

I call the meeting to order at 647.

We are also in WebEx and on tool and in room 208 as we are hybrid.

Uh first is on the agenda is the approval of the minutes at April 2020, April 27, 2026.

So any discussion.

Hearing none, all in favor.

Aye.

Any opposed abstentions, passes.

Next on the agenda's public hearing for matters on the agenda only.

Uh for those who are on WebEx, please use the hand raised function.

There is no one here in 208.

No one has come on online.

So I will close this portion of the public hearing and hand it over to my God.

Deputy Chief.

Davis.

Uh good evening.

Um, some of myself is gonna overlap with uh Chief Albert's as we've been working there, kind of hand in hand with uh the fire department.

Uh for accolades, officer Spencer, I think it was mentioned before he's this Thursday at the Aqua Turf will be receiving the exchange club salute to Connecticut's finance officer of the year award.

Uh that's for all the hard work he's done uh throughout this past year.

Uh as Chief Albert said we had a rollover crash at Mondo.

The family was very appreciated, sent several letters to Officer DeMassa and uh several of our other responding officers.

Uh public patrol and detective unit uh done some amazing work the past couple weeks.

Uh we had a homicide coolie ad.

We had the suspect in the cuffs in custody within two hours of that shooting up in Hartford.

So great work by them.

Also had uh a threatening of a city worker just outside here with the facsimile firearm.

We had that resolved within 20 minutes and had two brothers in custody as well.

Uh, just some incredible work by our officers.

Um overtime balances, replacement overtime was up this past month.

Uh due to what we had a significant training with firearms.

We have a new firearm platform.

So all of our officers, uh, I think next week is our last week of training, so they'll all have new firearms.

We had that homicide investigation.

The CT46 is affecting us.

Presently two officers out on workman's comp or down a total of five officers.

Uh we have reduced trainings and effort to uh drop expenses.

Uh looking forward to getting one officer on the academy for hopefully August or September.

You can see from community reports.

Uh attended the Middlesex County High School Career Fair.

It was in university.

We did uh Dingwall Golf Tournament, 5K Road raise, like fire chiefs at the Kid Health and Safety Fair along with the mental health fair.

Uh St.

Sebastian's Festival went off without a hitch.

And we also participated in the Liberty Bank Table Talks tabletop exercise uh in response to active shooters.

Vincent statistics, uh 5,263 calls for service, up from 4600 March.

Uh definitely had an uptick in the north end quality of life issues that with downtown stakeholders in an effort to discuss issues and pathways to some solutions.

We have designated several officers to ownership patrols, so they designated just to our down to downtown districts.

Uh had six overdose calls and our CIT prices something in prices intervention team has been busy.

Their caseload is also way up.

Uh for accountability update.

Uh, we now have a new system for performance evaluations.

East each officer will be evaluated by his or her commanding officer of the chain of command up to captain's uh all business just waiting on our scheduling clerk and for new business.

We have the information of the cannabis ordinance.

We kind of coincides with uh as if uh an open container uh ordinances that's what kind of minutes uh and we have the one million dollar grant confirmation from the automatic traffic enforcement staging camps.

We don't need uh we don't we voted on that already, correct?

The grant confirmation to receive those funds.

I think it's anybody's remember uh we did, yeah.

is that's what kind of minutes uh and we have the one million dollar grant confirmation from the automatic traffic enforcement staging camps that is it we don't need uh we don't we voted on that already correct the grant confirmation to receive those funds yeah i think it's anybody's remember uh no we did yeah okay i just wanted to make sure all right i think we did all right excellent thank you uh chief davis uh so i'll reopen the matters of the public hearing for anything that is not on the agenda uh i do not see anyone on webex and there is no one here in 208 so i will close the public hearing and entertain a motion to adjourn go ahead linda first and seconded all right yeah thank you all in favor aye any opposed all right we are adjourned at 653 good night everybody be safe have fun you too good night good night maybe