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Patrol Division Tactical Enforcement Unit Special Reaction Team Animal Control |
The Patrol Division is comprised of 5 teams of patrol officers. Each team is supervised by 2 sergeants and commanded by a Lieutenant who reports to the Captain of Patrol.
PATROL
The Patrol Division responds to the needs of our city in various ways. Most officers are assigned to a geographic area of the city, known as a beat. The beat cop is responsible for all activity in their area for the 8 hour tour. There are officers assigned to work exclusively with this city's island population. There are officers assigned to work at the Portland International Jetport.
Click Here to view a roster of Officers and their assignments.
T.E.U.
The Patrol Division also includes the Tactical Enforcement Unit or T.E.U. This unit is responsible for investigating violations of liquor, tobacco, juvenile, prostitution and vice crimes. They serve as an additional uniformed presence and in a plainclothes function to support Patrol operations.
T.E.U.'s Investigators are also assigned on a regular basis, criminal investigations to investigate. This relieves the workload on the Detective Division.
The T.E.U. acts as a selective enforcement unit in that it responds immediately to unusual occurrences and to situations that may occur in the City that require the rapid deployment of a multitude of officers to a specific need. This need often comes from the citizens themselves. When a new or increasing crime problem is identified and brought to our attention by the citizenry, crime analysis, or our officers, this unit is the one that will usually be called upon to attack that problem with all its resources in order to eradicate or suppress the situation.
The TEU may be reached by calling 874-8528
The department has at its disposal a Special Reaction Team and Hostage Negotiation Unit. Both are groups of highly trained and committed volunteers with expertise in safe crisis resolution. The goal of
the SRT is to contain and control volatile situations so that a peaceful resolution can be attained. Negotiators are used for a variety of situations from barricaded subjects to people in mental health crisis. They are skilled at methods of communication designed to de-escalate problems.
The SRT Team is comprised of volunteers assigned in all areas of the department. Activated by command, this unit comes together to deal with any high risk crisis.
Each officer volunteers for the rigorous selection procedure and is hand picked for their maturity, experience and physical conditioning. They commit themselves to hundreds of training hours with the most highly advanced tools available, honing their skills in safe, crisis resolution.
The unit is equipped with and proficiently trained in the use of the following weapons: H&K MP5 9mm Automatic rifles, Colt M-16 .233 caliber Automatic rifles, Mossberg compact 12 ga. shotguns, Remington 700 .308 caliber counter sniper rifle, S&W Model 4056 .45 caliber sidearm, Deftac distraction devices, and pepper spray foggers.
The Special Reaction Team was formed in 1984 and has evolved from a small unit of 8 individuals to a 27 member team composed of negotiators, paramedics and a counter sniper unit. Over the years the team has been assigned to numerous high-risk incidents that go above and beyond conventional police response. These have included hostage situations, barricaded subjects, suicidal persons and high-risk entries into buildings, all of which usually involve a variety of deadly weapons.
Being an Animal Control Officer in the City of Portland has become a very busy, very complex job. The ACO's in Portland perform the traditional work of a "dog catcher" enforcing city ordinances and state laws regarding the licensing, handling and cleaning up after of canines. But the job is much more that that.
Debra Estrella serves as the City's first line of defense against the occurrence of rabies. As housing in the city moves into areas that were wooded and wild, interaction between people and wild animals increases. While the rabies explosion of 1998 and 1999 appears to have slowed, the ACO's deal with the appearance of animals around houses where residents are concerned.
It's also possible to find the ACO's dealing with snakes, bats, cats, and a whole host of wildlife on a day to day basis. They also deal constantly with the problems of loud dogs and even dangerous dogs.
Being an ACO is demanding and requires great appreciation for animals of all types.