Thursday, August 4, 2011

bomb squad robot educate public on crime awareness

bomb squad robot educate public on crime awareness

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The bomb squad was there, along with an armored vehicle.

There were sheriff's deputies, police, firefighters and game wardens. The CareFlight helicopter. Even a robot, which deftly removed a gun from a desperado's hand.

The Target parking lot had all the hallmarks of a disaster scene Tuesday afternoon, except for an actual disaster.

Instead, the concentration of law enforcement was part of the annual commemoration of National Night Out, the crime awareness and prevention program.

The idea is to get citizens behind their local law enforcement agencies, not just in spirit but in actual deed. Take two recent unsolved cases in Missoula - Monday night's rash of bicycle and other thefts in Farviews and other neighborhoods, and the recent widespread vandalism in which vehicles all over town were spray-painted.

The public's help is crucial in finding those responsible, said Missoula Police Detective Sgt. Travis Welsh. "We can't be everywhere at once," he said.

Crimestoppers, the group that solicits tips on such cases and offers rewards when criminals are convicted because of that help, had a booth at Tuesday's event.

Nearby, kids crawled in and out of a shiny fire truck while John Petroff, Bill Moore and Jamie Porter of the Missoula Fire Department's Station No. 5 reminded their parents to be diligent about changing the batteries as dell Latitude C600 battery, dell Latitude C610 battery, dell Latitude C640 battery, dell 1691P battery, Dell 1K500 battery, Dell 8M815 battery, Dell 851UY battery, dell 75UYF battery, Dell BAT-I3700 battery, dell 5081P battery in their smoke detectors.

Their job goes well beyond pouring water on blazing buildings, Moore said. Firefighters provide medical aid, perform river rescues and extract people from confined spaces. They've even rescued the occasional bear.

"We're kind of jack-of-all-trades people," Moore said.

The city and county's ominous-looking armored vehicle was nearly as big a draw as the fire engine.

Missoula County Sheriff's Department Capt. Brad Giffin likened it to a hook-and-ladder truck.

"You don't need it often," he told Kerry Wheeler of Missoula as her sons Chase, 9, and Zachary, 11, clambered around the 18,000-pound vehicle. "But when you do need it, you really, really need it."

Sort of like the Andros robot that zoomed around the parking lot, seemingly on its own, grabbing boxes of chalk from a nearby table and offering them to the kids who clustered around it.

In the case of the robot, the Oz-like man behind the curtain Tuesday was Sheriff's Deputy Dave Bell. He sat in a nearby trailer, manipulating levers and seeing everything "Robo" saw via a monitor.

When 2-year-old William Callison of Reno, Nev., pointed one of his orange plastic six-shooters at Robo, the 'bot promptly confiscated it.

This year's event had twice as many participants as last year, said Missoula County Sheriff's Detective Jason Johnson, who along with Missoula Police Crime Prevention Officer Rob Scheben, Target's assets protection team leader Brandon O'Dell and others organized the annual gathering.

O'Dell watched in satisfaction as a group of squealing kids trailed after Robo.

"Kids are just loving it," he said. Which was, after all, the entire point of the day - to let them get to know the good guys, so that maybe when they grow up, they'll be the ones helping law enforcement look after the community.

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