POLICE BEAT

August 2008

The Town of Indialantic will hold the annual “National Night Out” Tuesday August 5, 2008 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM. “National Night Out” is designed to heighten the awareness of crime in our neighborhoods, strengthen police and fire partnerships with the community and generate support through participation in local anticrime programs and drug prevention. This year the Indialantic Police Department will present free crime prevention and home safety literature.

Residents throughout Indialantic and across the nation are asked to lock their doors, turn on outside lights and spend the evening outside with neighbors and police. Many neighborhoods throughout Indialantic will be hosting a variety of special events such as block parties, cookouts, and visits from police and fire department personnel.

Contact Community Policing Officer Ryan Deschenes at rdeschenes@indialantic.com or 723-7788 for more information.

During the last two months, the Indialantic Police Department has received calls about subjects who claim they work for AT&T going to businesses in town and requesting to see telephone bills or telephone lines. On one occasion, a business was asked what telephone company it used. The concern was that these subjects did not provide identification stating they worked for AT&T before the subjects started asking questions.

The Indialantic Police Department has contacted AT&T, which confirmed that sales representatives from their company have been in town over the past few weeks and have been soliciting businesses and residences in an effort to gain customers or decrease existing customers’ telephone bills. However, these representatives have proper credentials identifying them as employees of AT&T and they must show them when asked for them.

If approached by a solicitor claiming to be a representative of AT&T, ask them for proper identification. If there is any doubt about who they are or why they are at your business or residence please contact the Police Department at 723-7788.