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SHAKER LIFE | SPRING 2017 43 it’s a matter of finding a way for it to fit into our community and then developing engagement around it,” Lamielle says. Scroll through the posts from the Department’s Facebook page and there’s a mix of photos of officer visits to schools, alerts that inform residents on crime prevention, and requests for crime-solving tips. “With social media, we can reach a much larger and more diverse community,” says Commander John Cole, who oversees the Investigative Bureau. “And it enables us to be much more transparent and far more reachable. In law enforcement, there are sensitive issues that require discretion – certain things we can share and certain things we just can’t. Being a professional as well as progressive agency, we are determined to find that happy medium.” So far, resident response has been largely positive and enables police to interact with residents in ways not previously possible. “We’re humanizing our police officers,” says Uniform Patrol Commander Mike Rowe, “But we’re also throwing in messages that educate our customers because the better educated they are, the less crime we have. They’re more eyes and ears for us.” Facebook Posts > From the SHPD: August 12, 2016: Friday night deals! Patrolman Ward noticed a lemonade stand on the corner of Lomond and Latimore tonight. Obviously he was going to share this great find with some of his friends. We have been told that the girls had to close shop for tonight, so we wonder which one of these two ate all their cookies! Hopefully you can check out their great deals again this weekend! August 27, 2016: As if eating ice cream and meeting new friends wasn’t enough to pull some of our officers away. Learning to play the Djembe drums with Sister Yvetta was an extra cool treat! Thanks for the invitation to the Sutton Road Ice Cream Social! Officers Evans and Cacic had a great time. September 18, 2016: If we were paid by smiles, these kids would make us rich! The Huntington Road block party was a great time for us too! Thanks for having us over! September 21, 2016: On May 28, 2016, we held our first annual Shaker Heights Ribbon Run. The Ribbon Run represents the fight against all forms of cancer, with 100% of all proceeds going to local cancer research. October 2, 2016: Several of our officers joined fellow police officers from neighboring agencies for a “coffee with a cop” event in Shaker Square. We are happy we could join the other officers to meet and talk with local residents! From Residents: I would like to thank the officer who saw my mom struggling to get her footing due to the icy conditions. He got out of his car to help her through the ice... I’m very grateful for that! Thank you! – Mike Weaver, February, 2015 Last night at our casual Friday night block dinner on Ardmore a Shaker policeman Dave Emlaw stopped by with his police dog Boch and spent a wonderful half hour talking to us all about his dog and answering questions about the dog and how they worked together. He was great with the (20 or so) kids….We all loved it. We are so lucky to have such caring professionals in our community. – Shelli Blank Zasa, July 2016


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