The Indian River County Sheriff’s Office Community Service Unit, volunteered selflessly again this year, by providing over 43,500 hours, for the 2010 – 2011 year. Volunteers in Police Service show Florida has a value of $18.40 per volunteer hour, which equates to over $801,000 in savings for the county.
All of the Community Service Unit programs are invaluable to this agency and our community. Their loyalty, dedication and hard work affect so many and does not always get the recognition it deserves.
Listed below are volunteers throughout the agency and the number of hours worked in each division.
Working in Crime Scene and Investigations are: Joan Foster, Phil Weiler, Sally Farace, & Sandy Powell, who contributed 765 hours this year.
Pat Zaborowski, who volunteered in General Services logging in 333 hours.
Records Sharon Napolitano and Mary Beth Maxwell logged in 1,099 hours.
Crime Prevention is utilizing the talents of Mike Molloy, Steve Sackman, Paul Bristol and Phil Walker who contributed about 850 hours.
Over 3,500 volunteer hours were done at the Courthouse: Tom Harvey, Mike LaRouso and Shirley Douglas manned the security at the front door and Clarence Newmon, a volunteer process server, who serves at least 10,000 subpoenas each year.
Jim Aadlund, Nick Coppola, George Douglas, John Makolin, Harvey Niblack, Dennis Rings, Dan Thomas, Dan Walsh, Dave Werner, Mike Wisiewski and Harvey Zavelsky of the Marine Unit have 1,531 hours logged this year.
The Mall Substation is home base for many programs available in our community.
Mall Substation volunteers – Pat Smargiassi, Donna Dobie, Claire Linn, Marie Jeffes, Lucille Lepore, Kathy Martin and Barbara Madell donated 1,071 hours calling on our elderly who have no family nearby.(We Care Program) They make these calls every day of the week. Also with our Mall Office is Pat Daum, who handles all of the data entry.
Victim Advocate Volunteers, Nancy Carl, Sue Carter, Shirley Douglas, Dora Esposito, Doris Hanson, Larry Johnson, Mike Kiefer, Althea Powell Chandler, Pam Runkel, Tamara Snycerski, Bobbi Smick, Wayne Tozzolo, and Stephanie White logged in 944 volunteer hours with additional “On Call” hours totaling over 7150 hours. The Victim Assistance volunteers are fully trained to be first responders and are on an “on call” rotation 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to assist any 911 call as directed by our agency's policy and procedures.
Seniors vs Crime – Spearheaded by Fred Grone who logged 360 hours with Seniors vs Crime – This program, sponsored by the Attorney General’s Office, actively assists in consumer protection investigations.
Our largest group of volunteers is the Patrol or CAP Unit who contributed almost 33,000 hours with:
* Over 37,000 house, area and business checks – while it might appear to some that you are just riding around, you are the eyes and ears of law enforcement and there are no statistics on just how many potential crimes are averted because of your presence.
* Unlocked 4,816 vehicles
* Did 818 Traffic Enforcements – the first thing you hear on the radio after a Traffic Unit is called is “is there a CAP Unit available”
* Did 196 DUI Impoundments, the money goes to Law Enforcement in Indian River County.
* Did 181 School Crossings to fill in for the regular School Crossing guards.
* Wrote 47 illegal parking tickets and issued 1766 illegal parking and fire lane warnings
* Did 304 Transports, 840 Details, 277 VIN Verifications and 102 We Care Checks
This frees up the deputy’s time to do other things.
VOLUNTEERED OVER 1,000 HOURS – Pretty AMAZING when you consider a paid employee works 2,080 hours annually
Special Recognition for those who have donated over 1,000 hours this year. There are three volunteers who have generously donated over 1000 hours for the first time this year –
John Makolin, Dick Lutterman, and Vic Selliman
Also over 1,000 hours are:
Jack Allman
Karl Brandt
Lyle Clark
Dennis Farace
Art Gass
Fred Grone
Tom Harvey who logged 2033 hours between the CAP Unit and the Courthouse.
Peter Jensen
Frank Leone
Jim Precord
Frank Ross
Dave Werner
YEARS OF SERVICE FOR ALL VOLUNTEERS –
OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD goes to:
Sgt. Bill Seese for 20 years of Volunteer Service
5 Years Sally Farace, Lucille Lapore, Lt. Dave Werner
10 Years Sue Carter and Joan Foster
Thank you to our Reserve Unit, represented by Pete Marks, Dave Chandler and R. T. Williams who assisted this agency and our community with 1990 hours. R. T. was with the CAP Unit for almost a year and donated 614 hours of his time before joining the Reserves.