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Show Vol. 7 No. 7 A LOADER Serving the Clearfield area is Wednesday, January 18, 1978 Clearfield Police Department has all the necessary equipment, according to Investigations Officer, R. Ben Martinez. Ben, who oversees the Technical Service Unit in the Department, says that most Clearfield residents are not aware of how well equipped the Department is. We have all the modern equipment needed in police work. Unlike other small cities, the only time we call on the Sheriffs Department is for deputy coroner in suicide or murder cases, said Ben. One piece of equipment Ben is particularly proud of is the Video Tape camera. The camera is a vital tool in such public service areas as traffic surveys, as film can be replayed instantly. There are future plans to use the camera in narcotic cases, according to Ben. Under the new police chief, Dareen Green, I have a free hand to make changes to meet the needs here." said brought into action to destroy beer confiscated by the Clearfield Police Department. Ben. Among the changes he has is an MO file which will enable a police officer to come up with the names of several suspects by identifying the methods used in a case. Another innovation is the film records keeping system. A complete and itemized file is kept of all pictures taken by the department. A Ben develops and prints photographs taken by the department. He also has the equipment for taking foot prints and tire prints at the scene of a crime as well as removing identifying fingerprints. Recently a case was solved when a single fingerprint was found and s, identified from several tithing envelopes stolen from an LDS Ward. We have the same thing (crime) any big city does and more than other cities our size due to Freeport, Hill Field, and Job Corps, said Ben. He said that all command officers in the department have papers and are on call 24 hours a day. Ben graduated from Police Acadamies in Utah and Arizona. He attended Weber State and served three years in the Navy and three years in the Army, where he received the Army Commendation Medal for undercover narcotics investigation. Ben was a patrolman with Clearfield P.D. from 1971 to 1973. He returned to Clearfield last October to work in Technical Services. At first I missed the excitment of being on patrol, but after putting together a few cases back here in the lab, it gets he said. However, he interesting, admitted to going with the officers on patrol as often as possible. With officers like Ben Martinez and the Technical Services unit, its no suprise that Clearfield P.D. has one of the highest rates for closing cases in the Intermountain well-equipp- West. Stephenson given Chamber honors . Golden Stephenson, Clearfield Chamber of Commerce nominee for the Total Citizen award, was honored at a banquet held at the Hotel Utah last Friday. Tribute was paid to Mr. Stephenson and nominees from throughout the state by the State Chamber of Commerce. Man charged in sexual abuse Jose M. Hernandez, 426 North Main, Layton, has been charged in Clearfield City with forcible sexual abuse in a case which occurred in Clearfield last November involving two teenage girls. Hernandez, age 29, will appear in Clearfield City Court Feb. 22 for a preliminary hearing. Bail was set at $1500. SGT. RIC RENDON watches as Officer Ben Martinez stokes the fire that burned $8000 worth of contraband drugs. BEN MARTINEZ shows casts of tire and foot prints used to solve a recent series of construction site robberies. OFFICER $8000 in drugs burned The only thing missing was the hot dogs when Clearfield P.D. built a bon fire Thursday at the City shops. Fuel for the fire consisted of an estimated $8,000 worth of marijuana, LDS and other confiscated drugs. Also destroyed were approximately 16 cases of beer and several bottles of wine and hard liquor. The contraband items destroyed were a part of the over 700 items from 101 cases handled by the department. t Dr. Dean Penrod from the Davis County School District, appeared in Tuesdays City Council meeting to ask for the cities permission to continue soil analysis on the Steed property where the proposed new Steed Memorial Park and the new school site will be located. Dr. Penrod told the council that the school district is impressed with the site and thinks it is a good location. He said however that recent soil analysis on the property has determined that it will cost the school district an additional $50,000 to build on the site, if in fact it is feasable to put a school building there at all. He said he hopes the council will give the school board consideration in the increase in building costs, when considering the cost of the land to the board. Dr. Penrod was granted permission by the council to continue with the Boil analysis. The council asked the mayor to call an executive meeting with the school board to discuss further negotiations. The school board has 14 acres in Syracuse that are being considered as an alternate site for a school building. Borrows Bleachers Kay Litman and Kay Fairbanks from the Junior League of Ogden approached the council with a request to borrow four sets of park bleachers to be used for a tennis tournament hosted by the League Jan. 27 to Feb. 6 in Ogden. Over 2,000 spectators are expected for the tournament. The request was granted with the provision that the League will be liable for the bleachers. Meadow Park Richard Thurgood approached the council on behalf of Dale Smedley, contractor for Meadow Park Subdivision, to request building permits for phase 4. Council refused on the grounds the cement work and a six foot chain link fence Smedley had agreed upon in a contract one month ago have not been installed. Mr. Thurgood told the council that weather conditions have not per-mitted the work to be completed. The council felt however that Smedley has had adequate time and favorable weather conditions to get the work done. In other council action, the tot lot on Birch Street was appraised at $650 by Stephenson Realty. The city will put it up for bid. The council rezoned the Bernice Barlow property, located at the end of Center St. on the north side, from R-- 4 to C-The council set Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m. for a public hearing to rezone the Higley property on 1450 S. from R-- 2 to C-- 3 and Feb. 14 at 8 p.m. for a public hearing to rezone the Miya property for Greenhill Acres from A-- l to R-- i 2. OFFICER MARTINEZ looks at the large collection of contraband destroyed by the department. guns that will be |