2021 Police Annual Report_v5 (1)

TRU ARRESTS The Orland Park Police Department’s Investigations Division increased to a six (6) person Targeted Response Unit, commonly referred to as TRU. The unit’s primary responsibility is to focus on proactive measures. The chart below illustrates a breakdown of arrests performed by TRU. In 2021, this highly productive unit seized thirty-eight (38) firearms, four (4) vehicles and over $6,600 in United States currency. The unit conducted thirty-two (32) undercover operations, nine (9) search warrants and assisted other officers, and agencies on over three hundred occasions. 250

INVESTIGATIONS CASES ASSIGNED

2000

1,909

1,761

1,711

1,501

1,478

1500

INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION ACTIVITIES

206

200

2021 2020

150

1000

142

109

100

86

500

70

49

50

31

23 25

20

12

7

0

0

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

FELONY MISDEMEANOR TRAFFIC

WARRANT

JUVENILE MV CITATION

OPIATE CALLS FOR SERVICE

JUVENILE INCIDENTS Juvenile related calls for service resulting in a contact or an arrest saw a 34% decrease from 2020 and was at the lowest in five years. The D.A.R.E. program returned to normal function reaching over 900 students in 2021, after suffering a reduction in attendance due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

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In 2021, members of the patrol division administered NARCAN to three (3) subjects in respiratory depression from an overdose of opioids. The individuals survived due to the dispensing of the lifesaving medication to reverse the effects of opioids.

16

15

15

OPIATE DEATH OPIATE OVERDOSE

15

139

2021 2020 2019 2018 2017

ARREST CONTACT

10

10

25

208

8

39

6

238

5

64

4

255

3

3

3

61

315

0

87

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

*A contact involves the issuance of a municipal violation citation, a diversion to an alternative to court program or a release to parent/guardian situation (curfew, runaway, etc.)

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