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Keeping Roseville Safe We need our residents to keep an eye out for suspicious behavior and
crime as it happens. Then call us so we can do our part. Collectively,
By Roseville Police Chief Troy Bergstrom this partnership is what keeps our city as safe as it is.
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Fall Speaker Series Presenter, Nov. 13 at 6:30 PM
Dedicated Team of Professionals
Our police department staffing is doing very well across all of our divi-
Hello to our neighbors at the Club at Westpark! It’s been a few years
since I was asked to pen an article for your neighborhood newsletter. I sions and units. We regularly hire officers and staff to keep our 155 of-
was asked to ponder this question, “What’s been happening that has ficers and 72 professional staff positions filled.
It helps to have a dedicated team of officers and professional staff work-
helped Roseville become a safer city?”
ing together every day to make Roseville safe.
As we all know, our city has continued to grow -- from our residents, to Real Time Crime Center (RTCC)
the number of businesses, retail shops, hotels, and more -- our city keeps
growing. So as a police department, how do we keep pace with a grow- New to our Department over the past few years has been the addition of
our Real Time Crime Center. The RTCC makes use of technology re-
ing city and still keep crime down? And it is down.
sources and camera systems to help our
Very low violent crime with over 155,000 people officers respond to and investigate
As I write this article in late August, violent crime (which is always low crimes. RTCC responds to almost 400
for our city) has seen double percentage digit drops in every category calls for service a year with our officers.
except robbery, where most of our robberies are tied to retail theft. Bur- RTCC helps them do so safer and allows
glary and motor vehicle theft are also down considerably while our only for a more effective use of our staff.
crime increases this year are in the areas of theft and retail theft.
If you’d like to learn more about what the
So how do we keep our city safe? Real Time Crime Center does in keeping
The first core element to keeping our city safe is right in our Mission Roseville safe, I’ll be out at The Club on
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Statement: “We are dedicated to providing outstanding service while November 13 at 6:30 PM for a presenta-
working in partnership with our community to keep Roseville safe.” We tion during the Fall Speaker Series event.
can’t do it alone. Working together is key to our city’s safety. I hope to see you there!

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