ANNUAL REPORT 2004

For your review and reference we present the 2004 Annual Report for the Village of Beverly Hills Department of Public Safety. Generally, total Calls-for-Service increased by 10.2% over 2003 requests (5,449 from 4,946). A broad overview and discussion of the past year's activities follows.

Part A - Index Crimes are represented by Murder, Forcible Sexual Offenses, Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Home Invasion, Larceny, Auto Theft and Arson. For 2004, these crimes remained unchanged from 2003 incidents (129 vs 129). Robbery reports increased from 1 to 3, while Aggrivated Assault decreased from 4 to 2. Larcenies decreased by one from 104 to 103; Stolen Vehicles decreased from 7 to 2. Home Invasions were up from 12 to 18 reports. Statistics for these eight categories are reported to the FBI through the State of Michigan and are scheduled to ve published nationally in August 2005.

Part A - Non Index crimes are represented by Assaults, Kidnapping, Vandalism, Weapons Offenses, Forgery/Fraud/Embezzlement, other Sex Offenses, Narcotics, etc. For 2004, these crimes were virtually unchanged from 2003 incidents (135 from 130). While assaults and narcotics decreased, there were increases in fraud and vandalism reports.

Part B crimes saw an increase in 2004 of 22.7% from 2003 incidents (227 from 185). There were increases in OUIL cases (from 52 to 65); other liquor law violations dropped from 18 to 6 cases. Disorderly reports increased from 73 to 88 and Obstructing/Resisting Officers cases went from 4 to 3. Overall, arrests were down by 9% (335 from 368).

Total traffic accidents in the Village were up marginally by 2.6% from 2003 crashes (350 from 341), with property damage crashes increasing (320 from 312) and personal injury crashes increasing for the year (30 from 29). There were no fatal crashes in the Village in 2004.

Fire emergency calls decreased 8% in 2004 (104 from 113). There were no civilian fire fatalities this year in the Village. Emergency Medical Calls-for-Service increased in 2004 by 19% over 2003 requests (372 from 313).

Thank you for this opportunity to communicate this information and for your support of the Public Safety Department and its personnel over the past year.

The complete 2004 Annual Report is available in pdf format.

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