{"id":409,"date":"2010-02-22T15:08:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T15:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleislandcivic.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2010-02-22T15:08:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T15:08:33","slug":"scpd-inspectors-visit-mica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"SCPD Inspectors Visit MICA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_420\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-420\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/middleislandcivic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/SCPD-Inspectors-fixed3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-420 \" title=\"SCPD Inspectors fixed\" src=\"http:\/\/middleislandcivic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/SCPD-Inspectors-fixed3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"David Ferrara and Dennis Meehan \" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inspector David Ferrara and Deputy Inspector  Dennis Meehan <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two of Suffolk County&#8217;s Finest served as guest speakers at the February MICA meeting.\u00a0 Seventh Precinct Inspector David Ferrara\u00a0 and Deputy Inspector Dennis Meehan of the Sixth Precinct updated members on recent crime trends and community outreach programs in our area.\u00a0 Middle Island straddles two police precincts, with Route 21 (Rocky Point-Yaphank Road) the basic dividing line between the 6th and 7th districts.\u00a0 Both men reported that although overall crime statistics are down, there has been a slight increase in residential burglaries and petit larcenies.\u00a0 Their best advice: lock your cars and keep all tempting electronic items out of view or easy access.\u00a0 The growing heroin epidemic among young people was also noted.\u00a0 And yes, you CAN get a ticket for driving while cell-phone impaired!\u00a0 Open community meetings are a regular event at both precincts, with seasonal ones at the 6th and monthly ones at the 7th.\u00a0 SCPD also offers a citizens police academy and citizen ride-alongs &#8212; MICA members can&#8217;t wait to see Tom Talbot riding shotgun in a squad car!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of Suffolk County&#8217;s Finest served as guest speakers at the February MICA meeting.\u00a0 Seventh Precinct Inspector David Ferrara\u00a0 and Deputy Inspector Dennis Meehan of the Sixth Precinct updated members on recent crime trends and community outreach programs in our area.\u00a0 Middle Island straddles two police precincts, with Route 21 (Rocky Point-Yaphank Road) the basic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}