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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Friday, March 7, 2014 INCIDENTS Golden Gate NRA Interagency Task Force Focuses On Auto Break-ins On February 17th, the park's Problem Solving Unit, a specialized unit that focuses on long term enforcement issues in the park, organized a task force entitled Unified Unbroken. Participating in the operation along with park rangers were personnel from the California Highway Patrol, the Marin County Task Force, the Marin County Attorney's Office, and Sausalito Police Department's investigations division. The mission of the operation was to identify, detect, and arrest people committing vehicle burglaries in the park and surrounding areas. The operation lasted two weeks and resulted in the identification of several suspects who were “shopping” vehicles, the arrest of three people who committed a violent armed robbery, and an ongoing investigation into an assault on three law enforcement rangers, hit and run, felony eluding, possession of narcotics and vehicle burglary. The investigation is being conducted by the US Park Police Criminal Investigations Branch, assisted by the task force. This was the second task force created by the Problem Solving Unit in the last six months. The first task force, entitled Unified Vigilance, resulted in the arrests of four people for vehicle burglary, possession of narcotics, and outstanding felony warrants. [Randy Lavasseur, Deputy Chief, Law Enforcement & Emergency Services] OTHER NEWS The following stories are among those in today's webpage editions of InsideNPS (available to NPS employees only) and the Morning Report (available to all readers): Office of Communications - On February 26th, Director Jarvis hosted his fourth national webchat to answer your questions about current actions and issues. The video and transcription of that webchat are now available online. Colonial NHP - Robert “Bob” L. Turner, 55, dispatch supervisor and administrative assistant at Colonial National Historical Park, passed away suddenly on March 1st at his home in Gloucester, Virginia. Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services - The board of review report on the murder of Ranger Margaret Anderson has been released. The text of the cover memo is included, along with a link to the full report itself. Office of Communications - The Service has awarded more than $525,000 in grants to help preserve threatened Civil War battlefields at Mill Springs, Bentonville, Appomattox and Aldie. To see the full text of these stories, readers should go to one or the other of the following sites: NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index Non-NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/ The Morning Report is produced by the Office of Communications with the support of the Office of the Associate Director for Information Resources. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov). --- ### --- |