King Neighborhood bids farewell to a friendly face and respected member of the King community. Officer Ryan Bren, with the City of Portland’s North Precinct will be taking a new assignment with the City of Portland. He has been serving in the King neighborhood, district #630 since September of 2010. At the request of the King Neighborhood Association, Officer Bren started attending monthly neighborhood association meetings in an effort to update, advise and inform neighbors of any concerns affecting the community. In addition to his visits, he regularly reminded neighbors to contact him at anytime and offered “ride-alongs” to anyone interested. He often brought guest speakers to meetings such as gang enforcement officers and Commander of the North Precinct, Jim Ferraris to address special concerns. Recently, Officer Bren and his wife welcomed their first child, a baby boy. The King Neighborhood Association wishes Officer Bren and his family all the best as he embarks on his new assignment!
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North Precinct Commander Addresses King Residents
At the last meeting of the KNA, Portland Police North Precinct Commander James Ferraris came to respond in person to the letter KNA had drafted and sent to the mayor and police chief. In that letter, KNA urged that King be staffed with a 24 hour police presence. Currently, the patrol distict that coincides with the King Neighborhood is not assigned an officer from 1:00 am to 7:00 am. Concerns about response times came after an incident at the end of the summer where a fight broke out, was quieted, flared back up again and shots were fired.
He presented statistics on police response times and numbers of police calls initiated by calls to dispatch as compared to calls that were officer initiated. The ratio of officer initiated calls was said to indicate that officers are adequately covering the area and are not having to be dispatched in for every incident. Since the North Precinct is in this patrol district, PPB relies on officers who transit in and out to provide some coverage. When a patrol district doesn’t have an officer assigned specifically, neighboring distict officers cover them. Crime stats drive where officer patrol and at what times. The average response times were from 3 to 4 minutes.
Read the whole story with the statistics attached in the meeting minutes by clicking here.