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Show Friday, April , According to SSgt. Mark McGregor, NCOIC of the unit, the dogs and handlers pull regular patrols along with their search duties. The drug detection dog is by far the busiest. He said that so far this year there have been 122 searches with 77 finds. The Security Division also operates around-the-cloc-k with three flights and has 11 personnel posted on each flight. MSgt. Kenneth Manning, NCOIC of the Weapons Systems Security Section, explained that all of his people are military because of the combat nature of the job. They maintain constant vigilance over and control access to the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing's aircraft ramp where more than a billion dollars of 6 Fighting Falcons are nested in an area smaller than most shopping mall parking lots. They also provide a walking guard around the Stratotariker Strategic Air Command's KC-13- 5 located on the northeast side of the runway which belongs to the Utah Air National Guard's 151st Air Refueling Group. The rest of the flightline is checked by roving patrols which also act as backup to the posted guards. There are many people who work behind the scenes in the Operations Branch. SSgt. Chuck Raymond is the NCOIC of Quality Control for the squadron. He and SSgt. Russell Dice make sure the Security Police are qualified to perform their duties by giving written, oral and practical annual certification tests. F-1- According to Sergeant Raymond, he tests 50 security personnel per year and Sergeant Dice checks out 170 law enforcement people. Working almost hand in hand with the Quality Control Section is the Training Section. TSgt. William Lovell, NCOIC of the section, and two of his people indoctrinate all newly assigned Security Police on local conditions. They also oversee and instruct some classes in the squadron's weekly training sessions. George Wetzler has one of the largest "headaches" on Hill AFB. He is the base traffic planner. It is his job to make sure that base traffic moves as smoothly as possible. He admits that no matter what kind of traffic plan he sets up there will always be problems. Hill averages two automobile wrecks per day and so far this year has recorded four serious injury accidents. One new traffic plan that is working involves the West Gate. Last year, after careful study by his office, the West Gate traffic flow was changed for the morning hours to eliminate backup on the exit ramp of Interstate 15. Darrell Frazier is chief of the Investigations Section. According to him, he and his partner, David Jones' have a 25 to 30 percent success rate in solving cases on Hill AFB. "We investigatev all cases that are not capital offenses," he said. In order to keep the squadron on the job they must have wheels. Gary Hover is their Vehicle Con--, rfJSyki4 ft sfK"f m&r ; - y 7 V. A1C Ricky Russell of the Law Enforcement Section assists a motorist at the South Gate. Page 29 HILL TOP TIMES 29, 1983 trol Officer and manages a fleet of 22 vehicles. He noted that most of those vehicles are driven at least 60 miles per shift with a lot more engine e than miles. He only has three with less than 100,000 miles. Mr. Hover acts as a liaison between the Security Police and the base Transportation Division. "They do a super job of keeping us rolling," he said. "They assigned mechanics Craig Fickett and John Brontmire full time to our fleet." run-tim- " Administrative Branch All Security Police actions create paperwork. Managing that paperwork is the job of the squadron's Administrative Branch. That branch is responsible for issuing and controlling all base passes and identifications, Securi- ty Police reports and analysis, personnel security clearances, the Resource Protection Program, the Security Education Program, the Industrial Security Program and crime prevention. Boyce McKnight, who has been in Air Force Security Police work for 27 years said that the administrative workload handled by his staff is the largest he has ever seen. His Pass and Identification Section has 57,000 vehicles registered on base and 13,516 of those were registered in 1982. They also issued 22,394 identification credentials in 1982 and signed in a total 27-pers- of 108,491 visitors to the base. In the Reports and Analysis Section, they processed 5,944 parking and military moving violations, 542 government and private owned vehicle accident reports, 195 traffic incident reports and 1,913 incident reports most of which were thefts. The Security Clearance Section processed 6,664 clearances in 1982 while performing quality control on 16,500 civilian clearances and responding to telephone clearance verifications per day. The Resource Protection and Security Education Section was also busy in 1982. They performed annual inspections on more than 270 munitions storage areas, 10 weapons storage areas, 60 funds storage areas and 18 precious metals storage areas. They trained 90 base personnel every 60 days in the handling and safeguarding of classified information. They conducted Program Reviews of all Ogden ALC and Air Base Group organizations and some tenant organizations to check their handling of classified information. How do you process all of that paperwork? Until a couple of years ago, it was all done by hand. Now, thanks to the work of Dwayne Zimmer, the squadron is computerizing its operation. Actually Mr. Zimmer is mnning a pilot program for AFLC to come up with a workable system for managing Security Police information. He noted that the system is still in its design stage now but when complete it will streamline Security Police operations. For instance, it will compile at least 16 reports currently done by hand. It will also store law enforcement data, vehicle registrations, restricted and controlled area badge issue logs, names of persons barred from base, private weapons information and persons restricted from driving on base. Another area of the Administrative Branch is the Crime Prevention Section. SSgt. Richard Morin, base crime prevention manager, runs the Neighborhood Watch Program in base housing and Operation Identification for marking personal property. His other prevention programs consist of education through the Hill Top Times, at newcomers' briefings and through special appearances at local schools. Speaking of crime prevention, the next time the gates are closed when you are trying to get home; the next time you are asked for your identification card before entering the base; the next time you are asked to show your restricted area badge or the next time you are stopped for speeding, remember the 20-3- 0 , iilfcllKlililiiiBIII f - vTTZTW' W 4, ) Gary Hover, squadron vehicle control officer, changes an emergency light on one of the police blue and whites. Security Police are only doing their job, professionally. v. v. w;8wft.:'v h v if "V .: 't- J o 1 w Sgt, Ronald Zermeno of the Law Enforcement tion directs Crystal in a drug search. Sec- Officer Donald Anderton of the Law Enforcement Section directs traffic at the West Gate during the " afternoon rush. |