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5." 22 22,22"" SSS^SmT, J22S?22SmZ,"S « <br />are hired, and that it is a Department mandate that ongoing traimng occur. He noted that m <br />Februarv- the Department is scheduled to attend a training session in domestic abuse. <br />JoEllen Hurr asked what additional assistance officers provide victims other than handing them <br />a card with their rights and contact resources. Lt. Cheswick replied that qmte often victims are <br />in the police office'', and that the officer will advise and assist them until they ^ m a position <br />of safety, i.e. they may be transponed if so requested to a safe location, then they are assisted <br />in making the contacts they deem necessary . <br />Lindauist questioned whether Lt. Cheswick felt a shelter in Orono would be of benefit. Lt. <br />Cheswick noted that in some respects it would mean more work for the department, noting that <br />the number of police calls to the shelters in Plymouth and Minnetonka were sigmficant _ <br />Mabusth noted Itat many such calls were due to -suspicious Klivity , <br />a shelter is sensitive to intrusion by the victims’ abusers. This has lead to numbers of false <br />alarm calls She also noted that at one of the shelters located on a cul-de-sac m a middle clas <br />nlighborhood a large number of the calls were made by a single neighbor who was apparently <br />adversely impacted by the activity, car parking, etc. generated by the faculty. <br />Lt. Cheswick noted that in many respects having a shelter in Orono would be helpful, m Aat <br />it would provide a nearby location and an additional option for victims. Schroeder questione <br />liorln^mcidences of domestic abuse the Police Department responded to m a typical year. <br />Lt Cheswick indicated he would have to review the computer records, but that there are nmy <br />i^ffereXL of domestic abuse, and he would have to do some research to present a clear <br />picture. Mabusth showed an overhead with information provtded by the <br />dumber of domestic abuse calls repotted for Orono including its contract ctties. <br />noted that those numbers were somewhat different than City records, and Webber noted that her <br />numbers might be incorrect due to some errors. <br />Schroeder indicated he had received some information from the <br />19 incidents of domestic assault which Lt. Cheswick chatactenzrf as the senom <br />incidents in 1993, as opposed to somewhere in the range of 80 total domestic assault mci <br />Schroeder indicated he woula provide his information to everyone. <br />Schroeder reiterated that the reason for all of this discussion regarding the number of in^^e^w <br />is to somehow establish whether or not a need exists for the proposed shelter in • <br />Peterson asked, of the 78 incidents reponed for 1993, does Lt. Cheswick have a sense of how <br />many actually were referred to or transported to a shelter. Lt. Cheswick suggested the <br />was probably less than 10. Lt. Cheswick also noted that in his experience tte ^eP^em <br />not had a problem gening people into safe housing when it was necessary, be it ^ shelter or <br />motel. He noted that he personally had not experienced the inability to get a vie