Business Owners Help the Police to Help You
       
        Lets say that some suspicious characters are hanging out around your business at night when you are not there and the business is closed.  Perhaps they are loitering in your parking lot - not doing anything criminal, but from the trained eye of a patrolman he knows they are up to no good.  In order for the officer to confront these people on your property, he must get permission from you.  It's 2am in the morning and the officer is reluctant to make the call.  So he leaves the area to take another call.  The next day a robbery report is filed, your store was broken into overnight and the interior was trashed.  Could this have been handled differently?  You Bet!  If you had filled out a no treaspass agreement, the officer could have immediately began questioning these people without having to get your permission.  Every store owner should have one on file.  It costs nothing, helps the police to do a better job, and helps keep your property safe.  Download the form here. 

PROBLEM NEIGHBOR?

ESP (Enhanced Safety Properties Program) is a nationwide program, this is being adopted by the Portland Police Department.  It is in response to neighbors that encounter residential properties that are mismanaged, resulting in obnoxious behaviors, criminal activity and liveability problems.  If your business is located next to this type of residential property, you can do something about it.  The program requires the owner to attend land-lord training.  Several other tools can be employed by the assistance team.  Contact Havilah Ferschweiler (see below)

KNOW YOUR NRT TEAM

All businesses in North Portland are automatically a member of their local Neighborhood Association.  As part of the Community Policing effort, we have a Neighborhood Response Team (NRT) that are officers from North Precinct assigned to certain geographical areas. Their primary focus is to work with their specific neighborhood associations, community members, block captains (Block Watch) and crime prevention coordinators to help with problems that are too large and complex for a single patrol officer or neighborhood association to address alone.  As an automatic member of your neighborhood association, this is a great place to not only network with some of your customers but to share problems that jointly affect you and where your business is located.  Your NRT officer is listed below in the "Roster"

North Precinct Roster

Commander	James C. Ferraris
Captain	Keith Morse
Lieutenant Day Shift	Rachel Andrew
Lieutenant Afternoon Shift	Dave Hendrie
Lieutenant Night Shift	John Smith
Detectives & Neighborhood Response Teams	Sergeant Robert King  rking@portlandpolice.org
Detectives
Detective Jeff Bender jbender@portlandpolice.org	Arbor Lodge, Boise, Humboldt, Overlook, Portsmouth, University Park neighborhoods
Detective Mike Malanaphy  mmalanaphy@portlandpolice.org	Bridgeton, Cathedral Park, Hayden Island, Kenton, Linnton, St. Johns neighborhoods
Neighborhood Response Team Officers
NRT Officer Jack Gillentine  wgillentine@portlandpolice.org 503 823 0743	Bridgeton, Cathedral Park, Hayden Island, Linnton, Portsmouth, St. Johns, Univerisity Park neighborhoods
NRT Officer Steve Jacquot  sjacquot@portlandpolice.org 503 823 2121	Arbor Lodge, Columbia, Kenton, Overlook, Piedmont neighborhoods
NRT Officer Eric Zajac  ezajac@portlandpolice.org	Argay, Parkrose, Sumner, Wilkes, Enchanced Safety Properties Program, Portland Pollce Explorers Program
Crime Prevention Coordinators
Angela Wagnon  angela.wagnon@ci.portland.or.us	Cathedral Park, Linnton, Portsmouth, St. Johns and University Park neighborhoods
Mark Wells  mark.wells@ci.portland.or.us	Arbor Lodge, Bridgeton, Kenton, Overlook, Hayden Island, Piedmont, neighborhoods

                     

OTHER CONTACTS 

On Line Crime Reporting      www.portlandonline.com/police/cor

Non Emergency    503 823 3333

North Portland Precinct    503 823 5700

Portland & Multnomah County Information   503 823 4000 

Noise Control Office - (Development Services Bureau) 503-823 7350

Nuisance / code violations - (Development Services Bureau)  503 823 7306

Parking Enforcement - blocked driveways, loading zones, illegal parking - 503 823 5195

Graffiti Hotline - 503 823 4824.  See Links page for email address to send pictures 

Illegal Dumping.  ON PUBLIC PROPERTY  in the greater METRO area, call 503-234-3000 ask for RID (Regional Illegal Dumping patrol).  They will take away any dumped material.  For PRIVATE property they will investigate to determine if they can who dumped the debris.

Abandoned Auto hotline  503 823 7309

Multnomah County Animal Services   503 988 7387