2022 Police Annual Report

AXON BODY WORN CAMERAS AND IN-CAR CAMERAS

FBI AND DEA TASK FORCE OVERVIEW

The Orland Park Police Department has one member assigned to the FBI’s Safe Streets Task Force (SRA-1). In 2021 SRA-1 made eight (8) arrests, executed four (4) search warrants, recovered three (3) weapons, made seven (7) drug seizures, and recovered three (3) missing/abducted children. Our continued relationship with the FBI has also allowed us to supercede the limitations in Cook County and coordinate with the FBI to take four (4) firearms cases into the federal courts. The Orland Park Police Department has one member assigned to the D.E.A Task Force. In 2022, this Task Force seized 30 kg of Cocaine, 25 kg of Fentanyl, four hundred fifty (450) pounds of Methamphetamine, 50 kg of Black Tar Heroin and over $500,000.00 of United States Currency.

In May of 2022, the Orland Park Police Department deployed body worn cameras and squad car mounted cameras to all sworn law enforcement personnel and all vehicles in the fleet. This comes two years ahead of the state mandates in the SAFE-T Act, exemplifying the Orland Park Police continue to set the example. With the cost of nearly $1 million, the police have outfitted, trained and deployed this equipment in the field for daily use. The immense amount of storage required to maintain this data and the demands of a huge uptick in FOIA requests have taxed the agency beyond their initial scope, however we have continued to exceed expectations. Since the issuance of the Body Worn Cameras nearly every officer has seen the benefit of wearing them. Not only do they assist officers with recalling specific details of incidents, but also it has directly resulted in not a single sustained citizen complaint on an officer for all of 2022. Additionally, after some of the major incidents, Administration is able to review the footage from several officers in order to build a more detailed and thorough debriefing of the incident. The members of the Orland Park Police Department are happy to have this resource available to them.

CAMERAS

2

$3,918,592

$2,550,368

1

$500,000

2020

2021

2022

2022 30kg

NARCOTICS SEIZED Cocaine-52.5 kg

25kg

Fentanyl-10kg, 398 pills

450lbs

Methamphetamine-8lbs

50kg

Black Tar Heroin-1kg

10

FIREARMS SEIZED

784

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