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PUBLIC SAFETY AT FOREFRONT IN CITY OF FORT WAYNE AS LEADERS RECAP 2020 AND LOOK AHEAD TO 2022

January 19, 2021 - Mayor Tom Henry, Police Chief Steve Reed and Fire Chief Eric Lahey today provided a public safety recap of 2020 and highlighted plans for 2021 that are designed to continue making the City of Fort Wayne as safe as possible while a pandemic still challenges our city.

Fort Wayne Police Department Data and Highlights from 2020:

*The FWPD’s 65^th recruit class graduated, putting 17 new officers on the street.

*The FWPD has completed a total of over 41,331 hours of training in 2020.

*Officers responded to over 137,000 calls for service.

*Overall crime went down 13% from 2019.

*Violent crime was up in 2020 with more homicides in 2020 than in 2019. Homicides had a clearance rate of 81% in 2020.

*Over 700 firearms were seized, with the Gang & Violent Crimes Unit seizing 146 of those illegal firearms during their investigations.

*The Gang & Violent Crimes Unit conducted 22 search warrant/raid operations.

*Additional resources were added to the Homicide Unit to address violent crimes.

*The Downtown Bike Patrol received 3 new electric assist bikes to aid in patrol.

*The new Special Operations building was put into service.

*A new Investigative Operations Center was created to assist with homicide investigations, missing persons and any other critical incidents.

*A new explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) robot was received to assist with suspicious packages or known explosives, such as bombs.

2020 TRAIL VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR ANNOUNCED

January 15, 2021 - Mayor Tom Henry presented Adrienne Maurer with the 2020 Trail Volunteer of the Year Award on Thursday. The award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated strong leadership and made exemplary and significant contributions in volunteer time to planning, construction, maintenance, promotion and/or fundraising for the City of Fort Wayne’s trails and greenways network.

QUALITY HONORED AT POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT-TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE CONTINUES

January 15, 2021 - For the 18th year in a row, the City Utilities' Water Pollution Control Plant received the Indiana Water Environmental Association (IWEA) Award for Laboratory Excellence.

The award recognizes the plant lab's quality management and the collection and management of the essential testing data required to meet National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit regulations and monitor the sewage treatment process to operate at the best and highest standards at the sewage treatment plant. Team members include analytical chemists Pat Kohn, Andy Riley and Spencer Roscow.

JONATHAN LEIST NAMED DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF REDEVELOPMENT FOR CITY OF FORT WAYNE'S COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

January 15, 2021 - The City of Fort Wayne's Community Development Division today announced Jonathan Leist as its new Deputy Director of Redevelopment. He will begin his duties on February 2nd.

Leist brings more than 17 years of professional experience to the new position. He served as the Solid Waste District Director of Huntington County, Indiana from 2003 to 2015 and the Town Manager of Culver, Indiana from 2015 to 2021.

LOCAL TRAIL USAGE REACHED RECORD NUMBERS IN 2020

January 13, 2021 - Residents continue to utilize the community’s trails system. Trail counts reached an all-time high in 2020 with 663,426. It’s a 17 percent increase from the previous high count in 2016 and a 45 percent increase from 2019.

The data comes from 14 infrared trail counters that track usage. This year, the City will have six additional infrared trail counters.

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