Southmoreland Neighborhood Association

Southmoreland Security Patrol

We need to raise an additional $1,000 monthly to maintain our program, please contribute monthly and quarterly to our security program. Your monthly and quarterly sunscription checks can be sent to our P.O. box address here.

We're proud to have the KCPD SWAT Team call Southmoreland their second home. We hire off-duty KCPD SWAT officers to patrol Southmoreland for 16 hours per week (four 4-hour shifts). Below are the latest results. Please consider contributing quarterly to our patrol - they're making Southmoreland a safer place!

For emergencies always dial 911, and always report ALL crimes to the KCPD. The KCPD only schedules patroling activity according to the history of events that are called-in!

To report safety issues, suspicious activity and to alert the neighborhood and security patrol of a crime (after you have called it in) please click here.

Security Patrol Results

Activity	June 07	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan 08	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	June	July
City Arrests	6	5	17	20	5	12	10	9	18	24	19	14	19	5
Felony Arrests	2	-	1	1	1	1	3	-	1	2	4	1	5	6
Narcotics arrests	2	-	1	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	2	1	-	2
Recovered guns	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
Car Checks*	22	22	29	24	34	36	25	18	25	24	29	11	19	31
Pedestrian checks**	8	6	6	9	10	7	9	9	7	9	11	7	9	8
Residence checks***	-	5	1	9	12	20	21	22	15	18	5	1	1	1
Calls for service	15	10	23	22	14	20	8	17	17	16	11	17	13	18
Traffic tickets	10	5	15	10	25	22	4	7	1	12	12	8	7	13
*A car check is a car stop when a car or someone inside is acting suspicious.
Pedestriam checks are the same as a car check, except a pedestrian is stopped. *Residence checks are made because a person is wanted, or with the intent to arrest, or to investigate an arrest. - Dec 07 Results are reported from 12-10 to 1-6-08. - Jan 08 results are 1/6/08 to 1/31/08. Note that much of the time in Jan was focused on auto breakin problem on 46th Street and 41st & Oak areas.

Recent Highights

Tues 1/22/08 : At 2339 hours PO Hewitt and Sgt. Crump were conducting surveillance in the neighborhood. They heard a dispatched call for service regarding a suspicious subject prowling vehicles in a parking lot near 41st and McGee. A short time later they located the suspect in the 4300 block of McGee. When they attempted to conduct a ped check on this suspect, he fled on foot between the houses. They chased him almost two blocks and caught him behind 4335 Oak. The suspect resisted arrest, but was taken into custody.

Week of 11/19/07: Officer Truman was working off-duty for the neighborhood when he heard a dispatched call for service regarding car prowlers in the 4000 block of Locust. He immediately responded to the area and observed a suspicious black male prowling around parked cars. As soon as the suspect noticed the police car he fled on foot between the houses. Officer Truman engaged in a foot pursuit of the suspect and was able to catch him. Officer Truman located the vehicle which the suspect had broken out a wing window in, and then used a screw driver to “pop” the steering column, getting ready to steal it. Officer Truman was then able to track down the owner of the car who was obviously unaware that someone was trying to steal her car. Officer Truman no doubt prevented a stolen auto from occurring and because of his good police work the suspect was booked for felony tampering.

THANK YOU for your financial support...

If you like this program please consider a quarterly subscription: You can mail your quarterly security patrol subscription 4 times a year to Southmoreland Neighborhood Association, P.O. Box 01027, Kansas City, MO 64171. Write security patrol on the memo line.

These organizations, iun additionan to Rockhill residents, are actively contributing to our security patrol, in alphabetical order:

All Souls Unitarian Church
Kansas City Art Institute
Rockhill Manor
Quadrangle Development/Holiday Inn
QuikTrip Corporation
Weindling, Dan /Terra Management