Police Service Area 1
 
Name:
Lt. P. Berlin
Telephone Number:
510-238-7149
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In 2003, Police Service Area 1 reported a 41% reduction in homicides, a 12% reduction in assaults (shootings) with a firearm, a 4% reduction in robbery, and a 35% reduction in carjacking.
Beat Officers, Crime Reduction Team Members, and Problem Solving Officers gave significant attention to reducing drug hot spots and blighted properties.
For example, the "Chestnut Street Sweep" combined the efforts of the Police Department, CEDA, Public Works, and Code Enforcement to attack a corner lot used for selling drugs and storing stolen and abandoned cars. Arrests were executed, cars towed, and garbage removed from the lot.
Problem Solving Officers worked approximately fifty projects, ranging from simple evictions to boarding up houses and drug hot spots.
Throughout the year, Police Service Area 1 had the highest number of drug–related arrests in the City. To reduce the number of drug–related violent crimes, burglaries, and robberies, officers emphasized 11550 Health & Safety Code enforcement (Under the Influence of Narcotics) and is working through its second year of a federal Weed and Seed grant to target drug–related violence, prostitution, domestic violence, and blighted properties.
Neighborhood Service Coordinators in cooperation with the Service Delivery System Team conducted more than twenty street clean-ups, improved street lighting, painted addresses on curbs, and repaired sidewalks.
A park located at 25th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way is being renovated as a result of a cooperative effort between community members, City agencies, and the Police Department.
A truancy center has been opened at McClymonds High School.
Crime Reduction Team 1 Members reduced robberies in the West Oakland BART area, continued drug hot–spot enforcement, served numerous "crack house" warrants, and targeted and arrested several known "enforcers."
Lt. P. Berlin