Profiles: Beavercreek

Contact Info:
BEAVERCREEK POLICE DEPARTMENT
1368 Research Park Drive
Beavercreek, OH 45432

Officer John Williams
phone 427-5525
pager 480-3346
fax 427-5526
cell 776-6234
cpfirst@ameritech.net

I am John E. Williams, an OCPA, CPS (Certified Protection Specialist). I am a retired Dayton Police Sergeant and have bee in law enforcement since, Oct 2, 1967 for a total of 34 years. I have been with the Beavercreek PD since May 2, 1994, in my present position as a Crime Prevention Specialist. I have worked crime prevention since 1980 and have been a member of the MVCPA since that time.

As I always inform the public, the motives for committing crime has not changed, but only the manner in which they are committed. Though the traditional crimes as burglary, theft, robbery, rape, are still responsible for the destruction of lives, we as crime prevention practitioners must stay abreast of the "new" crimes plaguing, or those which will plaque our society. It is imperative that "we" continue and expand our training where these crimes are concerned.

The number 1 defense against criminal victimization is AWARENESS. Awareness is not just physical awareness, but, but attitudinal, financial and futuristic. we must be aware of what and how ALL crimes are committed to avoid victimization. It is "our" responsibility to stay knowledgeable and to pass that on the public we serve - this includes citizens of every age and the businesses as well. They will then be aware. But, awareness also includes preventative measures which must be taken - that all falls upon the crime prevention practitioner.

To provide that AWARENESS I have developed numerous crime prevention programs which will make the public aware, and at the same time promote police-citizens partnerships. Why partnerships, because police agencies are effective only to the extent in which the public supports them. Crimes are solved and prevented by the police and community working together. Working in vacuums results in suffocation - we breath life to one another.

CRIME PREVENTION SERVICES: Presentations, Business & residential security risk assessments, Youth Crime Prevention Puppet Show, Bvrck High School youth group (PACT - Positive Actions by Concerned Teens), BIG! Annual National Night Out, Neighborhood Watch groups, Crime Analysis reports, PICAN - Police Informational Citizens Awareness Network, KINDCALL, involvement and organizing of numerous police-community events, AND LOTS MORE !

PRESENTATIONS: Personal Safety; Robbery Prevention (Personal, business and financial), Business presentations incl. Work Place Violence, Shoplifting, Internal Theft, and Fraud. Also, presentations for kids re: strangers, given in elementary school, day cares, and churches. Give presentations to youth and teens which are age relevant. Also have a program for senior citizens.

Give approximately 55 presentations annually. Must continually update these presentations and programs; requires much research. MOST REQUESTED PRESENTATION IS IDENTITY THEFT; MAKE THIS PRESENTATION BOTH TO THE BVRCK COMMUNITY AND OUTSIDE OF BVRCK.

PUPPET SHOW IS GIVEN TO SCHOOLS, AT SPECIAL EVENTS AND WILL BE RECORDED FOR BVRCK ACCESS CABLE 10 IN NEAR FUTURE. "A CITY'S PUBLIC ACCESS CABLE IS A WONDERFUL, EFFECTIVE MEANS IN WHICH TO REACH THE MASSES IN ANY COMMUNITY. also, IT INVOLVES THE CITIZENS IN PRODUCING THESE PROGRAMS WHILE AT THEY SAME TIME TEACHING THEM - ALAS, POLICE-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS WHICH = TRUST. WROTE AND PRODUCED: "STRANGERS: FISHING FOR KIDS" IN 1995, STILL AIRING 3-4 TIMES WEEKLY WITH GREAT PUBLIC FEEDBACK. GET TO PARENTS HEARTS THROUGH THEIR CHILDREN.

Will be writing, producing program for our cable station which will be air by mid year, title: "Identity Theft: Are You the Only You"?

PACT: Youth high school program for freshmen thru senior years. Involved with Bvcrk CPU. Get members involved in community and police. Encouraged to identify community problems (incl. the influential community in their lives, their school). Must then come up with and implement solutions to the identified problems. This can be done in numerous ways: via newspapers, school papers, posters, radio, TV, Bvrck cable or in any way in which they deem as appropriate. I AM ONLY THEIR MENTOR - THEY MUST DO ALL THE ABOVE. The members are also the puppeteers for the puppet show.

Youth Safety Crime Prevention Puppet Show: Variety of youth safety & security programs set to music and comedy. Puppets are muppet sized with Officer Ollie as the star. Ollie is dressed in a real (tailored uniform shirt, badge, etc. Groups, schools, churches, etc., can request the puppet show.

PICAN: Computerized telephone informational system. Citizens can get information on a variety of services provided by our PD; from weekly crime updates, neighborhood watch, teen issues, KINDCALL to CLIP which allows criminals to be reported, as America Most Wanted. I obtained the software via a Block Grant in 1998 and developed the PICAN program, their are 31 separate sites and sub sites contained within PICAN. PICAN cannot be purchased, it is just what I called the program which I developed. PHONE # for PICAN is 431-2345. Since 1998 their have been approximately 2,200 called made into PICAN. Thought still operational, no crime updates can be obtained, I have written a script and in the process of filming a documentary on PICAN; 14 BPD personnel are being used in the film. I will be airing in mid January 2002. The script is written in a fashion as one is being taken on a tour of PICAN, which will be approximately 35-40 minutes in length.

As I say when teaching BASIC CRIME PREVENTION for OCPA, you as future crime prevention practitioners you must - THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX.

This profile is a sampling of what I am attempting to provide the Beavercreek City and Beavercreek Township citizens and businesses. But, as criminal MOS change - so will I.