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Show Police report indicates busy past year for department; 4369 cases investigated The annual police report for J966, submitted this week by Chief Ashley Graham, indicates to some extent, the activity requiring re-quiring police attention during: the year, with total incidents numbering 4,369. While space :t not permit the complete ie report there was a total of n, 245 Class 1, or major criminal complaints for the year. Most of these complaints, a total of s" 189, were under $50 in value, h. r-onnrt indicates. other cases to bring the total to-tal to 733. Non criminal cases number 2,850. Under traffic accidents, were listed, 138 property damage; 39 personal injury; two, fatal; 39, non-investigated; 28, under $50; 19 private property. Listed under police service were 479 aid to persons and agencies; 164, escorts and shuttles; shut-tles; 113 lost and found; 617, animal control; 114 attempt to locate; 35 others including checks, false alarms, etc. Under this category also came 75 family and neighborhood neighbor-hood troubles Investigated; 207 character references given; 43 autos abandoned; 49 bicycles and numerous other cases under un-der legal action, departmental administration confidential ser-fice ser-fice and referals to other departments. There w ere 115 traffic citations ci-tations to juveniles and 426 to adults, the report states, making mak-ing a total of 541 for the year. Speeding headed citations for adults with 128 listed. Driver license came a close second with 126 listed. There were 22 for parking; 18, stop sign; 11, failure to yield; 11, failure to control; 6, safety inspection sticker; 3, improper changing of lanes; one each, excessive noiseand faulty equipment; two improper backing; 9, registration registra-tion and others to bring the total to-tal to over four hundred. The two highest incidences for which citations were issued is-sued to juveniles were for speeding, 29, and licenses, 44. The number of persons taken ta-ken into custody, not necessarily neces-sarily arrested or referred to juvenile court during the year, was listed at 377. ui- T Complains listed Complaints on crimnal class No. 2 (minor) numbered 733. These are listed in 24 classifications classifi-cations from 156 on juvenile delinquency to one for vagrancy; va-grancy; two for offense against children and family; three each for fraud, stolen property; 102, vandalism; 46, prowlers; 25, drunkenness; 19, disorderly conduct; seven, forgery; seven, auto theft; 14, sex offenses; 11 driving under influence and |