2022 Police Annual Report

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 2022, this highly productive unit seized seventy-four (74) firearms, eight (8) vehicles and over $16,913.00 in United States currency. The unit conducted twenty-two (22) undercover operations, seventeen (17) search warrants, and assisted other officers, and agencies, on over three hundred occasions. 250

INVESTIGATIONS CASES ASSIGNED

2000

1,761

1,711

1,501

1,478

1,469

1500

INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION ACTIVITIES

206

200

2021 2022

171

1000

150

93

100

500

70

50

31

25

24

0

17

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

12

7

3

3

0

FELONY MISDEMEANOR TRAFFIC

WARRANT

JUVENILE MV CITATION

JUVENILE INCIDENTS Juvenile related calls for service, resulting in a contact or an arrest, saw a 23% increase from 2021 and was at the second lowest in five years. Specifically juvenile arrests saw a 28% decrease and is the lowest in five years. The D.A.R.E. program continued to reach over 900 students in 2022, fully returning to normal function after the previous two years of reduced attendance due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021.

OPIATE CALLS FOR SERVICE

In 2022, members of the patrol division administered NARCAN to five (5) 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.

25

23

20

OPIATE DEATH OPIATE OVERDOSE

184

2022 2021 2020 2019 2018

ARREST CONTACT

16

18

15

139

25

11

10

10

208

8

39

6

238

5

64

3

3

3

3

255

61

0

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

*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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