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Mukilteo Police Department 2022 Annual report

MISSION: The mission of the Mukilteo Police Department is “to provide professional police service for and with the community.”

VISION: To be a model Police Department invested in the growth and safety of our community through innovation and a balanced approach to Law Enforcement.

CORE VALUES

  • Professionalism – With pride we enforce the law with compassion, fairness, and respect for all. We strive for excellence in service by being a highly trained, self-disciplined, and motivated team.
  • Integrity – We hold ourselves accountable to the highest standards of moral and ethical conduct. We hold ourselves to elevated standards of trust, responsibility, and discipline while promoting justice in a fair and impartial manner.
  • Community – We are committed to partnering with the community to ensure public safety and promote a high quality of life. We value open communication and mutual trust.
Our staff and volunteers are the most important part of our organization. They are the force providing essential emergency services, follow up investigations, evidence and records support, and serve as the subject matter experts helping to run an organization that prides itself on establishing and maintaining community partnerships.

The largest division in the police department, the patrol division responds to 911 calls for service. These first responders have maintained their commitment to service and continued to professionally deliver essential and emergency services to our community.

Patrol Division highlights

  • Calls for service (2022) 28,862: This includes all citizen driven calls for service and self-initiated officer incidents.
  • Traffic issues have historically been a top citizen driven call for service. Traffic enforcement has been a priority for our two traffic officers and the officers in the Patrol Division. Traffic emphasis patrols throughout the city as shown through the increased "Radar" speed emphasis patrols and increase in traffic stops. The number of user driven 911 traffic calls for service decreased substantially in 2022.
  • 2022 continues to see a substantial increase in the number of responses to Behavioral/Mental Health Crisis calls for service. In addition to dealing with twice the number of calls for service, officers are spending more time on each incident to de-escalate crisis situations and maintain compliance with new state laws limiting use of force.

Our City Council approved the use of ARPA Funds to start an embedded social worker program. The Police Department partnered with Compass Health to contract a 0.5 FTE staff member dedicated to providing additional support and engagement needed to connect individuals with the most appropriate resources to meet their health and social needs to improve outcomes for the individual, avert additional crises, and decrease the use of emergency resources. The program operated during the second half of 2022. A link to the Social Worker program statistics for 2022 is here.

Embedded Social Worker, Leah Winter, contacting individuals in the community to connect them with services.
Online crime reporting is available for reporting low level crimes to provide flexibility to file police reports

SPECIAL OPERATIONS

  • The division brought onboard a new Detective Sergeant and two new detectives.
  • Detectives were assigned 207 cases for review.
  • Six pre-employment background investigations were conducted, resulting in the successful hiring of two new police officers and one Park Ranger.
  • Added a detective to the Snohomish Multiple Agency Response Team (SMART) - which is the county's independent investigations team that responds to officer involved lethal force incidents. Mukilteo detectives responded to three separate SMART callouts.
  • Certified a new pilot for the department's Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) program.

COMMUNITY SERVICES

The Community Services Division is comprised of the Crime Prevention Officer, School Resource Officer, Animal Control, and Park Rangers.

CRIME PREVENTION

  • Outreach programs continued to expand as we emerged from pandemic restrictions.
  • Staff visited numerous neighborhoods during the National Night Out Against Crime event and will plan to expand the number of neighborhoods to visit for the next event.
  • The Police Department continues to partner with the Mukilteo Police Foundation to increase positive interactions with the youth in our community. Events such as Shop with a Cop, Coffee with a Cop, Chief for a Day, and pop up BBQs were supported and funded by the the Police Foundation.
Officers from Mukilteo, Edmonds, Mountlake Terrace, and Washington State Patrol took over 30 kids holiday shopping during our annual Shop with a Cop event. Shop with a Cop is sponsored by the Mukilteo Police Foundation to encourage positive youth and police interactions.
MPD staff served as honorary baristas during National Coffee with a Cop day. The Coffee with a Cop program encourages productive conversations and engagement with our community.
The Community Police Academy offers an inside look at police operations and procedures for our community members.
Officers raced against teens in go-carts as part of our Police Activities League (PALS) program. PALS is sponsored by the Mukilteo Police Foundation to encourage positive youth and police interactions.
Officer Fabia serves as a "barber" in training during our annual Cuts with Cops event. This event raises awareness for men's health while positively engaging with the community.
Officers from Sergeant Davis' patrol squad brought in 1298 pounds of non-perishable food and much-needed supplies for the Mukilteo Food Bank through their "Cram the Cruiser" food drive event.

COMMUNITY SERVICE OFFICERS

  • Community Service Officers (Animal Control and Park Rangers): Issued 1,542 parking tickets.
  • Staff responded to 263 animal related calls for service.

VICTIM SERVICES COORDINATOR

2022 saw a return to in-office working for our (Domestic Violence) Victim Services Coordinator. The ability to work in person again at the Police Department allowed her to increase her personal connections with victims in our community. Our DV Coordinator accompanied victims to Domestic Violence Protection Order Hearings and assisted our Detectives by supporting victims in interviews. She was again available to assist victims who came to the Police Department seeking help with various issues. Our DV Coordinator was also able to attend many community functions – Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish County’s Hope Within Luncheon, Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish County’s Chocolate Lovers Gala, National Night Out as well as Shop with a Cop with Mukilteo Police Department. A highlight of the year was being an instructor alongside Sgt. Davis and Lynnwood’s Victim Coordinator, Tiffany Krusey, at the Regional Police Skills Refresher Training. Together they taught Trauma Informed Care and incorporated an understanding of these practices in Officer wellness and resiliency. It has been heartwarming to see Mukilteo Police Officers utilize these skills with our community members as well as with each other.

Thank you Mukilteo for your trust and continued support!!