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Sector 1 Lieutenant's Message

I am Lt. Mark Covington and welcome to our police sector web pages, this devoted to Sector 1.  This is the busiest of all our patrol areas, and poses a lot of challenges in administration, particularly from the unique businesses and diverse residential areas it covers.  We staff the sector at a minimum of 1 patrol officer on a 24/7 basis, and because of some of the lengthy calls we must handle, this sector is the first to be backfilled from cover units.  Of course, the sector receives plenty of additional support from traffic officers, other cover units, detectives, supervisors, and administrators.

Our greatest challenge is protecting the downtown core businesses from petty thieves, shoplifters, and vandals.  Fortunately, personal and violent crime is not particularly an issue.  Some of the things we're working on in our sector meetings include improving the lighting under the Macy's parking lot, institution of a zero tolerance on truancy from Las Lomas High and Del Oro High Schools, and special downtown business crime suppression patrols during the holidays and other busy times.  For all those efforts, we are holding the line on our crime statistics, year after year, even with the increasing numbers of shoplift-related arrest rates from the upscale Broadway businesses.

I have overall charge of police operations and policies on the sector, and I am on duty from Friday through Monday from 5:00 PM to 3:00 AM.  Please feel free to contact me directly with any long term concerns or police issues in that area.