The Lyndhurst Police Department and Public Engines today announced that Lyndhurst PD became the first law enforcement agency in the state of New Jersey to sign a partnership with CrimeReports.com to share neighborhood crime incident information with community members via the Internet.

Under the terms of the partnership, CrimeReports.com allows the Lyndhurst PD to publish local crime incident information to the Internet in near real-time, making raw crime data easily accessible and user-friendly for community members. By using CrimeReports.com, members of the public can easily view crime information from multiple jurisdictions where they both live and work in one convenient, easy-to-use location. The published information is presented through a Google Maps interface where residents can review up-to-date crime activity for any location within each agency’s jurisdiction.

“CrimeReports.com allows us to more easily share crime data with our community members,” said Chief James B. O’Connor, Lyndhurst Chief of Police. “It allows us to form a deeper partnership with our community members as we strive to enhance the quality of life in Lyndhurst.”

Lyndhurst Public Safety Commissioner Robert Giangeruso agrees. “This is another tool our police department can use to assist and inform our residents, I am in full support of this program,” he said.

The basic information that CrimeReports.com provides is:
• Type of incident (preliminary)
• Date of incident
• Block address of incident
• Other pertinent information as deemed necessary by the reporting law enforcement agency

“Lyndhurst PD is leading the way in New Jersey by using CrimeReports.com to get the community involved and solve crime,” said Greg Whisenant, CEO Public Engines. “We look forward to a lasting partnership with Lyndhurst PD, and Lyndhurst citizens are going to benefit from accessing local crime data that previously wasn’t publicly available.”

CrimeReports.com is free to members of the public, and allows users to receive alerts automatically via email if a crime occurs in their immediate neighborhood. It also allows people to view reported crime activity on an easy-to-use map for any location within each agency’s boundaries.

The Lyndhurst Police Department actively responds to complaints of ongoing speeding problems and other traffic infractions occurring within the township.

If you believe there is a speeding or other recurring traffic problem on your street or in your neighborhood, you may submit a request for directed enforcement.

If the nature of your complaint pertains to speeding, the Traffic Bureau may setup its speed trailer in the problem area. This radar-equipped unit gives each passing vehicle a visual readout of its speed and reminds residents of what the actual posted speed limit is. Oftentimes, people simply don’t realize how fast they are going and deployment of the trailer serves to heighten awareness. Use of the trailer also enables the Traffic Bureau to conduct unobtrusive traffic studies to determine if any changes such as additional traffic signals, signs or traffic calming measures are needed. This equipment also contains a counter to measure the volume of traffic in a given area.

HOW TO SUBMIT A REQUEST:
For your convenience, we have made a traffic enforcement request form available online. In order to view it, you will need Adobe Reader software installed on your computer, version 4 or higher.

Print out the form after it is completed and mail or deliver it to the Lyndhurst Police Department, Attention Traffic Bureau.

    • Helping officers and supervisors identify criminals and/or wanted persons quickly and safely.
    • Ensuring an individual’s identity when purchasing a weapon.
    • Capturing fingerprints from witnesses at a crime scene, or from family members, as a part of the “elimination       print process.”

TRAK, Technology to Recover Abducted Kids, is a computer software system that was originally designed to help law enforcement agencies locate and recover abducted children. It has since been used in countless types of cases, assisting law enforcement in the process of communicating important visual information. This system allows any police officer to quickly and efficiently create high-resolution photo bulletins and share them electronically with other law enforcement jurisdictions, the media, and the community, when they deem it appropriate.

The most dreaded type of case is child abduction and serves as the best example of why TRAK works.

The first two to four hours after a child is abducted are crucial. In distressingly simple terms, an abductor can travel a mile a minute. When the agency in charge makes the decision to communicate information, the TRAK system plays a central role. Each TRAK system comes with thousands of pre-loaded law enforcement contacts that can be added to and arranged easily at each agency. With a widely distributed image, five or five hundred miles from the location of the incident, law enforcement possesses a greater likelihood of surrounding and capturing the abductor. Thus, while an abductor may be leaving the original agency's jurisdiction, the TRAK bulletin is alerting other agencies, and the community warning them of the suspect's potential arrival. Prior to TRAK, such alerts were most often in text only and communicated by telephone or Teletype, or via fax with sometimes fuzzy, unrecognizable pictures. In-person delivery proved too time consuming and costly.

TRAK, a tool that allows police officers to create and transmit photo bulletins, can aid in the prevention of many types of crime. The TRAK system comes with thousands of pre-loaded law enforcement contacts called "Targets", to which you can add or alter numbers, depending on your needs. The TRAK system yields high quality, recognizable images so that law enforcement can share information on:

    • Missing children and adults
    • Stolen vehicles
    • Fugitives
    • Many other types of crime