Month: December 2016

Westport Police Toy Drive

The Westport Police Department Local Union #2080 and Police Benevolent Association will be hosting their annual Holiday Toy Drive, which provides toys for underprivileged children throughout Fairfield County and beyond.  The program has been extremely successful in the past, allowing for thousands of toys to be distributed to children who otherwise would have none.

 

 

Westport Police Officers will accept new, unopened, and unwrapped toys, as well as cash donations, on the following Saturdays and Sundays from 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM:

 

Saturdays, December 10 and 17

Sundays, December 11 and 18

at

ASF Sports & Outdoors, 1560 Post Road East, Westport – Parking Lot

 

In case of inclement weather, please call the Westport Police Department at 203-341-6000 or check with the local news services.  Should the weather not allow a trip to ASF on any one of those days, the donations can be brought to the Westport Police Department as soon as conditions allow.

 

Collection boxes will be set up December 5 through 16 at the following locations:

 

  • Westport Police Department, 50 Jesup Road – 24 hours a day

 

  • Westport Town Hall, 110 Myrtle Avenue – during business hours Mon-Fri 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

 

  • ASF Sports & Outdoors, 1560 Post Road East – during store hours Sundays 11 AM-4:30 PM, Mon/Tues/Weds/Fri 10 AM-6 PM, Thurs 10 AM-7 PM, Saturdays 10 AM-    5:30 PM

 

  • Whole Foods Market Westport, 399 Post Road West –  during store hours 8 AM-10 PM daily

 

  • Renato’s Jewelers, 1765 Post Road East – during store hours M-F 8 AM-3 PM, Sat 9 AM-2 PM, closed Sundays.

 

We ask for your continued support and generosity to help make this year’s drive as successful as in the past.

 

Any questions can be directed to Sgt. Jill Ruggiero at   jruggiero@westportct.gov or 203-341-6000.

 

We thank, in advance, all of our continually generous donors and look forward to seeing you all at ASF Sports & Outdoors!

(Westport Police Press Release)

 

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‘Bridgeport 311’ App Replaces B-Connected App

#BRIDGEPORT, CT – Mayor Joe Ganim today publicly launched the new ‘Bridgeport 311’ mobile app that anyone can download for free to report problems or issues throughout the city.  Bridgeport 311 replaces the former ‘B Connected’ app with a more transparent, efficient, consumer friendly format that more easily allows for anyone from city officials to members of the public to track the progress on problems that have been reported.   The Bridgeport 311 app is downloadable for free at this link: Http://en.seeclickfix.com/Bridgeport and residents or any concerned citizens can report problems ranging from potholes to blight and illegal dumping, noise and health hazards, animal control issues missed trash pickups, graffiti, and many other issues.  The Bridgeport 311 app is also linked to the city of Bridgeport website www.bridgeportct.gov and was created specifically for Bridgeport by the New Haven based firm SeeClickFix, who has developed similar constituent mobile reporting apps for hundreds of municipalities nationwide, including seven cities and towns in Connecticut.

 

“This Bridgeport 311 mobile app and web tool from SeeClickFix will be a powerful tool that enables Bridgeport residents to provide city departments with pictures, videos, specific descriptions, locations and more — valuable information needed to fix problems efficiently,” said Mayor Ganim.  “This is another way in which technology will help our government run more effectively and much more transparently.  In addition, the SeeClickFix platform provides our city government with a centralized issue management system to manage issues from creation to resolution — engaging Bridgeport citizens throughout the process and solving problems in a better, more thorough way.”

 

This partnership not only allows Bridgeport citizens to report problems, but also to view, comment on, and vote to fix problems submitted by their neighbors. Citizens can even create their own “watch areas” to receive notifications about all the issues reported in their community, enabling them to follow the progress of all service requests — not just the ones they report.

 

About SeeClickFix

 

SeeClickFix was founded in 2008 to empower citizens with tools to publicly document quality of life concerns in their neighborhoods. By radically improving the quantity and quality of this data, SeeClickFix was quickly adopted by local governments, who needed a better way to receive information from citizens.

This exchange helped to build one of the largest neighborhood networks in the world — upon which public agencies and public citizens engage to improve communities. Today, SeeClickFix has official partnerships with hundreds of cities, engaging hundreds of thousands of citizens in the resolution of millions of issues.

 

SeeClickFix has worked with government partners to develop municipal management tools on top of this citizen network. As SeeClickFix is adopted into the everyday lives of government users, the benefit of the engaged citizen base continues to grow.

Bridgeport News: Rollover On Fairfield Avenue

7:19pm–#Bridgeport Connecticut– A woman was injured as she came down the I-95 Fairfield Avenue ramp turning left onto Fairfield Avenue towards Fairfield. She some how squeezed her SUV between a lamp post and the utility pole in the picture that is split at the base. Her SUV continued up the embankment when it rolled over. EMS transported her to the hospital She was conscious and alert. You can expect to see this tomorrow night on A&E’s Live PD as well.

 

Stratford News: Drug Arrest

#Stratford Connecticut–On December 6, 2017 investigators from the Narcotics Vice and Intelligence Unit completed an investigation into alleged cocaine sales in local bars. The investigation led to an arrest warrant for Evaristo Castro, age 56 of Bridgeport as well as a search warrant for Castro’s home at 295 Putnam Street (apt 1). Castro was taken into custody during a traffic stop and the search warrant executed immediately thereafter with the assistance of the Bridgeport Police Department.

Seized was an SKS Rifle, approximately $18,749 dollars and 260 grams of cocaine.  Evaristo who is a convicted felon was charged with the below listed crimes.

Sale of Cocaine                        Criminal Possession of a Firearm                             Operating a Drug Factory

Castro is scheduled to appear in Bridgeport Court on December 16, 2016. He was held on a $250,000 dollar bond.

(Stratford Police Press Release)

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