Tampa Adult Entertainment: Tampa police tweak crime-fighting plan

October 22, 2009

But with few open air drug markets left in the city, Castor said, the undercover officers have devoted their time to other related investigations.
She cautioned that the move does not mean that the agency will be any less interested in drug-related crimes.
“We are not doing away with any services,” she said. “And if anything, it’s an extension of what we have been doing.”
Key to understanding the tactic, Castor said, is the belief that criminals don’t tend to specialize. Drug offenders also commit strong-armed robberies, burglaries and more, she said.
“It will work,” she said after describing the plan Thursday in a conference room at TPD’s downtown headquarters.
Each district will have four ROC squads, enabling the districts to be covered by these officers for 23 hours a day, 7 days a week, responding when a neighborhood experiences a flare-up in prostitution or traffic problems, for example.

See the full article from “Tampabay.com”



Leave a Reply