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Public Safety Please note that links that are outside of Nashville.gov will open in a new internet browser window. Family Drug Court Implemented (Juvenile
Court)
Juvenile Court Expands Attendance Review Boards (Juvenile
Court) Go to the Juvenile Court web site Mail-In
Ticket Program Expanding Countywide (Circuit Court
Clerk) Starting in 2004, all motorists stopped for moving violations on the county's roads will be given the option of paying their fines or enrolling for driving school classes by mail rather than appearing in court. An exception to that convenience will be a mandatory court appearance for those who feel they have been wrongfully cited and choose to contest the officer's action. A high number of errant drivers have taken advantage of the mail-in plan since it was introduced on a limited basis November 2002, resulting in a 50 percent reduction in court appearance time for patrol officers and allowing them to spend more time in the field. The mail-in program promises to dramatically reduce the court's hourly dockets, making them more manageable. Go to the Circuit Court Clerk web site Training
to Lower Response Times (Fire) Go to the Fire Department web site Recruitment
of Minority Firefighters Enhanced (Fire)
Diversity
Improvements in Fire Promotions (Fire) Fire
Department Gets New Equipment (Fire) Fire
Stations Become Computerized
(Fire) “Learn
Not to Burn” program (Fire) General
Sessions Drug Court Established (General Sessions
Court) GREAT
Camps (Police) The camps last two weeks and utilize classroom time, games and field trips to reinforce the anti-gang/anti-drug messages that the students received during the year. Camp participants are selected based on their exceptional work in the classroom. Go to the Police department web site North
Precinct Opens (Police) Procedure
Implemented to Reduce Caller Intimidation (Police) Citizens who call the Emergency Communications Center to report drug dealing, other crime or quality of life concerns can now specifically request that an officer not come to their home. Although the caller will still be requested to give their name and confirm their telephone number, the responding officer will be given the code “NC” by the dispatcher, which means the caller has requested no police contact. There is an emergency exception to the no contact rule. If a responding officer finds that a serious crime has been or is about to be committed, and that the caller is the only person who may be in possession of vital information about the matter, the officer can request the caller’s telephone number. The officer would then make contact with the caller by phone. Felony
Drug Court cited as model for nation (State Trial Courts) The Drug Court, which was founded by Criminal Court Judge Seth Norman in 1997, is the only one in the nation with a residential treatment facility. Using an intense inpatient treatment facility, heavy supervision and structure, the Drug Court has one of the best recidivism rates in the country. Only 16% to 17% of Drug Court graduates are convicted of another crime. First
to supply automated criminal history to TBI (Multiple Public Safety
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The Juvenile Court successfully implemented a Family Drug Court for the
parents of children who come before the Court with drug and alcohol issues.
The Family Dependency Treatment Court Program participants appear before
a judical officer each week and are subjected to urinalysis screens. During
the first half of FY 2004, a total of 19 families had participated in
the Family Dependency Treatment Court program.
The Juvenile Court has successfully expanded Attendance Review Boards
into Metro Middle and High Schools. The Court's Family Services Division,
in cooperation with Metro Schools, increased the number of Attendance
Review Boards from 7 to 17. The Attendance Review Boards work with youth
having problems with regular school attendance and their intervention
significantly reduces the number of truancy petitions filed at Juvenile
Court.
Following a favorable one-year trial run, Metro's traffic enforcers are
phasing in a countywide mail-in ticket program designed to reduce court
appearance time for both police officers and the motoring public.
Thanks
to the support of Mayor Bill Purcell and the Metro Council, an innovative,
multi-year Paramedic to Firefighter training program continues to maintain
lowered response times of advanced life support emergency medical care
to the citizens of our community. In October 2003 and January 2004, a
total of two additional engine companies were upgraded to paramedic level
service, bringing the three-year total to 9.
In
calendar year 2003, a series of promotions occurred and resulted in the
first female Deputy Chief and an African American female Assistant Fire
Marshal. The fire department continues to make significant progress in
the advancement of minorities and women in high-ranking positions within
the department. 
From
the period of January 2003 to April 2004, the Nashville Fire Department
took delivery of 5 pumpers (fire engines), 9 new ambulances, and 2 hazardous
materials response vehicles. Before the July of 2004 the fire department
expects the delivery of 4 additional pumpers and 2 breathing air support
trucks. The new fire equipment represents just over a $4.47 million investment
by Mayor Bill Purcell and the Metro Council to keep the Fire Department
fleet up to date.
The
Nashville Fire Department is entering the final stages of the multiple
year capital program that will finish placing and networking computers
in all of its 36 fire stations. The new management information system
will soon modernize the data collection and reporting systems within the
department’s fire stations. To assist NFD fire fighters in learning
to use the new technology, a 16 terminal computer lab at the Fire Training
Academy was established.
In
January 2004, the Nashville Fire Department teamed up with Dr. Pedro Garcia
and the Metro School system to re-introduce the “Learn Not To Burn”
program, designed by the National Fire Protection Association over 20
years ago. This ‘train-the-trainer’ concept will educate teachers
to begin introducing an eight step fire-safe lesson that is introduced
over an eight-week period through music, fun-learning activities and information
for parents. This training, in conjunction with several on-going efforts,
has been implemented in order to provide education to decrease fire-fatalities
in residential structures in Nashville and Davidson County.
General
Sessions Court established in October, 2004, a misdemeanant Drug Court
under the direction of Judge Casey Moreland, Division X. The Drug Court
works in partnership with community based providers, the Davidson County
Sheriff's Office and Day Reporting Center, Metropolitan Police Department,
Office of the Public Defender, Office of the District Attorney General
and other divisions of the General Sessions Court. This drug treatment
court is a program where offenders participate in a phased program with
intensive treatment with the goal of making defendants accountable for
their own actions, thus bringing about a behavior change. 
In July 2003, Forty-two middle school students (ages 10-13) graduated
from one of the summer’s police department-sponsored GREAT (Gang
Resistance Education & Training) summer camps. 
On
February 1, 2004, hundreds filled the lobby of the new North Precinct
for its opening. The new facility, located at 2231 26th Avenue North,
is a 23,000 square foot structure that includes the base for the Police
Department's North sector, a community meeting room and a vehicle registration
office. Major Sam Sloss, a 34-year veteran of the police department, commands
the staff of 119 officers who will serve North Nashville and communities
to the northern border of Davidson County including Bordeaux, Joelton
and Goodlettsville.
The
police department has taken steps to help protect citizens from intimidation/retaliation
if they call to report drug activity or other crime taking place in their
neighborhoods.
Davidson
County's felony Drug Court has been cited as a model for the rest of the
nation by the Bush administration’s Office of the National Drug
Control Policy. Congress also has given its stamp of approval on the court
by giving it $1 million.
In
2003, Davidson County became the first county in Tennessee to be able
to provide the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation automated electronic
criminal history. Arrest data from the Metro Police Department is combined
with disposition data from the Criminal Court Clerk and additional data
from the District Attorney General then forwarded to the TBI through the
automated Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS). CJIS is recognized
as one of the most advanced systems in the criminal justice community
because of its ability to integrate with the Police arrest system and
the Sheriff’s jail management system. The system integration, allowing
data to be shared among agencies, was the significant reason that Davidson
County was prepared to be the first to provide the TBI with automated
criminal history.