04-24-2014, 09:30 AM
I want to share w/PW that Puna residents have a relatively new option in learning about what's going on in our neighborhoods re: thefts, attacks, etc.
An organization labeled Puna Watch has been resurrected since last November. It's comprised of the different subdivisions' Neighborhood Watch and/or community association representatives. They get together monthly, a different subdivision serving as host each time, and they share what's going on in their subdivisions w/the others.
Madie Green originally started PW years ago but it kinda just faded out, as I heard it. However, Greg Ilagan has resurrected it. Crime reports are presented at the meeting from community police officers in attendance and the program now includes invited speakers such as from Civil Defense, the fire dept. ...you get the idea. IMHO, it's a good thing that these various Comm. Assoc. people actually communicate w/each other and share ideas, potential solutions to problems, etc.
I stumbled upon it at the county website Puna4.com. Ilagan's staff attends each meeting and takes good notes which are written up and put on the website in a timely manner. So you can read online what you missed in the meetings for Feb, March and April...The next meeting is May 1. I don't think you have to be an official NW rep as they are public meetings.
BTW, that's where I learned about theft rings that are operating between the upper and lower Puna subdivisions. I also learned they're using ATVs to get thru where other vehicles cannot pass; they're using trailers and trucks w/no licenses to rip off large household appliances, etc. And this has been going on for several months now. We need to pressure the police dept. to come down on these criminals...and this PunaWatch would be a good venue to do so. Organizations carry more weight than an individual victim.
A too-trusting senior lady I know, living and building a house in Orchidland, hired a P*** M**** and his workers to do some drywall at her place. She left them there working while she did a coupla hours' chores. Came back and found the workers gone, as well as her huge new Honda 5000 push-button generator... gone! And now M**** will not answer her calls....turns out he's an ex-con.
The police officer who took my friend's theft report has not even bothered to check w/the pawn shops. Regular patrol officers are so busy answering calls, how can they devote much of their time to investigating these reports? There needs to be an investigation on a higher level that can put all these individual reports together and do some real legwork on ridding our subdivisions of these creeps.
Meanwhile, hope to see you at a PunaWatch meeting!
An organization labeled Puna Watch has been resurrected since last November. It's comprised of the different subdivisions' Neighborhood Watch and/or community association representatives. They get together monthly, a different subdivision serving as host each time, and they share what's going on in their subdivisions w/the others.
Madie Green originally started PW years ago but it kinda just faded out, as I heard it. However, Greg Ilagan has resurrected it. Crime reports are presented at the meeting from community police officers in attendance and the program now includes invited speakers such as from Civil Defense, the fire dept. ...you get the idea. IMHO, it's a good thing that these various Comm. Assoc. people actually communicate w/each other and share ideas, potential solutions to problems, etc.
I stumbled upon it at the county website Puna4.com. Ilagan's staff attends each meeting and takes good notes which are written up and put on the website in a timely manner. So you can read online what you missed in the meetings for Feb, March and April...The next meeting is May 1. I don't think you have to be an official NW rep as they are public meetings.
BTW, that's where I learned about theft rings that are operating between the upper and lower Puna subdivisions. I also learned they're using ATVs to get thru where other vehicles cannot pass; they're using trailers and trucks w/no licenses to rip off large household appliances, etc. And this has been going on for several months now. We need to pressure the police dept. to come down on these criminals...and this PunaWatch would be a good venue to do so. Organizations carry more weight than an individual victim.
A too-trusting senior lady I know, living and building a house in Orchidland, hired a P*** M**** and his workers to do some drywall at her place. She left them there working while she did a coupla hours' chores. Came back and found the workers gone, as well as her huge new Honda 5000 push-button generator... gone! And now M**** will not answer her calls....turns out he's an ex-con.
The police officer who took my friend's theft report has not even bothered to check w/the pawn shops. Regular patrol officers are so busy answering calls, how can they devote much of their time to investigating these reports? There needs to be an investigation on a higher level that can put all these individual reports together and do some real legwork on ridding our subdivisions of these creeps.
Meanwhile, hope to see you at a PunaWatch meeting!
