Police Service Area 4
 
Name:
Lt. C. Mufarreh
Telephone Number:
510-777-8521
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PSA 4 is comprised of Community Policing Beats 20X, 21X, 21Y, 22X, 22Y, 23X, 24X, 24Y, 25X, and 25Y. These beats roughly encompass the area from the City of Piedmont to Keller Avenue in the Oakland Hills and the area from 23rd Avenue to High Street and from the Estuary to Highway 580.
Personnel assigned to PSA 4 include walking officers, Problem Solving Officers (PSO's), Crime Reduction Team members (CRT's), Community Policing Beat Officers, patrol sergeants, and Neighborhood Services Coordinators (NSC's).
in 2003, PSA 4 personnel focused on problem–oriented policing techniques to respond to emerging crime problems and to target both drug "hot spots" and blighted properties. Over sixty prostitution–related arrests during the last two months of 2003 along with cooperative work with the local Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) greatly improved the feeling of safety in the area.
Neighborhood Services Coordinators Renee Sykes, Ana Martinez, and Debra Ramirez continually worked with each NCPC to identify issues regarding crime and quality of life. The information received from the Neighborhood Services Coordinators and the NCPC's was critical to the development of action plans affecting a variety of community concerns.
These plans were created and coordinated by the area's Problem Solving Officers, Kamillah Jackson and Karla Rush.
Successful examples included the comprehensive plan to address loitering, disorder, crime, and community fear surrounding the Hillcrest Motel. This location had been a haven for crime and greatly diminished the local community's quality of life. Our efforts resulted in the sale and demolition of the property.
The Grace Joy Lodge is another example of a problem centered on a property that was successfully resolved through the cooperative work of City agencies and the community.
The Crime Reduction Team 4 continues to use a variety of innovative enforcement techniques to tackle the problem of open–air drug markets and violent street crime. Undercover sting operations have resulted in the arrests of numerous persons for robbery and grand theft in the Fruitvale district. The Team successfully executed large seizures of narcotics, resulting in the successful prosecution of offenders.