The Bremerton Police
Department’s web site is
looking a little different these days, as new Bremerton Police
Chief Steve Strachan continues an effort to reach out to the city’s
residents.
Biographies of Strachan, as well as ones for captains Jim Burchett and Tom Wolfe and lieutenants Pete Fisher and Luis Olan, can now be found online.
Additionally, the department has added a first-ever online tip form to report drug activity. The department says the information can be anonymous but that “it can assist our detectives if we can contact citizens directly to obtain vital details.”
Questions on the form are broken into five parts:
1) Why do you think this is a drug house?
2) Where is the activity occurring?
3) Who is involved?
4) What cars are involved?
5) Any additional comments?
Strachan said the changes were made to both update the web site but also “provide a direct link” for residents to send in questions or comments about the department.
Bremerton Police Sgt. Randy Plumb, in charge of the department’s Special Operations Group, said the new link streamlines information so it can get to an investigating detective as quickly as possible. He also noted that providing the anonymity online may help bring forth new tips of those previously concerned their identities might be revealed.
Those wanting to report drug tips can still go through the department’s phone line: (360) 473-5217.
Bremerton Police Community Resource Specialist Joe Sexton said additional citizen reporting tools and web site features will be coming in the months ahead.
