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Show Report shows police calls up considerably over 1985 in 1985. The worst intersections for accidents ac-cidents are 100 E. Center with 16 accidents; 100 E. 200 South and the Pleasant Grove High School parking lot tied for second with 10 each; Center St. and State Road 89; and 100 E. and State Road 89 and State Road and Main St. tied for fourth place. Lindon had 66 accidents. Twenty-one Twenty-one of these were injury accidents. The police made seven DUI arrests out of the total number of accidents in Lindon. The total property damage was $180,325. The worst intersections for accidents ac-cidents were 600 N. State Road and 100 S. and Geneva Road. Lindon had 80 accidents in 1985. Part I crimes were down a little : last year and Part II crimes were up ! itie, according to the 1986 report just released by the Pleasant Grove police Department. The statistics cover both Pleasant . (jrove and Lindon as the two cities are under the jurisdiction of the pleasant Grove Police Dept. Police Chief Mike Ferre said that calls for police department services were up a lot over the previous year . He said the department gets bogged down with too much to do. "We can't do the preventive measures because offices have to go : straight from call to call," the chief ' stated. He added that they could use ; at least one more police officer. The department began using ' computers midway through the year. Although it was time con- Suming to make the switch-over, it : has proved to be a valuable asset to : the department. They now can retrieve much information on in-1 in-1 dividuals and vehicles on their own : without having to get it from other ; agencies. This makes it much quicker for them to get a response to ; the officers. '- There were 590 Part I crimes in : 1986 and 46 per cent of them were i cleared. In 1985 there were 593 and i 54 per cent were cleared. : A breakdown of the Part I crimes I showed that there was one attempted at-tempted murder; four rapes, all were cleared and three arrests were : made; one robbery; 56 assaults, 82 i per cent were cleared and 25 arrests were made; 429 larcenies, 123 : arrests and 45 per cent cleared; 79 i burglaries, 41 per cent cleared and 12 arrests made; 17 vehicle thefts, 41 ; per cent cleared and four arrests : made; and three arsons, 33 per cent cleared and 2 arrests. ! November was the high month for burglaries with February not far i behind. The least number of i burglaries were in July. The value of items taken in burglaries were $54,395. There were 902 Part II crimes. There were 782 the year before. Sherri Atwood, computer specialist for the department, said that much of the difference in numbers between bet-ween these two years is in the items included this year which were not included in 1985. Some of the statistics on Part II crimes include 34 sex offenses (does not include rape) in which 76 per cent were cleared. They made 14 adult arrests and four juvenile arrests. There were 33 sex offenses the year before. The department recorded 168 cases of criminal mischief. Of these 43 per cent were cleared and 24 juvenile arrests were made and six adult arrests. In 1985 there were 185 offenses and 39 per cent were ' cleared. Family offenses includes family fights, child abuse, wife abuse, runaways, etc. The department handled 145 cases and 100 per cent of them were cleared. They arrested 11 juveniles and 11 adults. The year before there were 76 cases reported but they did not keep a record on runaways that year. There are always a large number of runaways, Mrs. Atwood said. The department made 29 DUI arrests. Twenty-seven were males and two were females. In 1985 there were 31 DUI arrests. Pleasant Grove recorded 291 auto accidents and 40 of these were injury accidents. Two were DUI accidents in which there were injuries. Police made 12 arrests as a result of accidents. Seven of these were DUI's and five were for various other reasons, such as suspended license, etc. The total property damage amount was $387,875. Pleasant Grove had 267 accidents |