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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 2017
Baldwin: A local
contractor who grew
up in Warrenton
Glad to serve
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Astoria Police Department Sgt. Brian Aydt and Officer Jair Macareno respond to a call along the Astoria Riverwalk last weekend.
Police: Three patrol officers departed this year
cer present, he or she will still
show up, Aydt said.
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Walk, these two officers on the
bridge represented the depart-
ment’s entire patrol force on
duty at the time.
The Astoria Police Depart-
ment, accustomed to operat-
ing with a small staff, is hand-
cuffed a bit tighter this year
after recently losing a quarter
of its patrol force. As a result,
the department has taken steps
to maintain consistency in
how it patrols the city as tour-
ists flock to the region this
summer.
700 to 1
The department at full
staff has 12 officers on patrol
in addition to a chief, deputy
chief and two detectives. But
three patrol officers left the
agency earlier this year.
Now the ratio of Astoria
residents to police officers —
including chiefs and deputies
— is more the 700 to 1. That
is a little less than double the
national average, according to
the department’s statistics.
Officers in recent weeks
have had to work mandatory
overtime, and one detective
has switched to full-time patrol
duties until replacements are
hired. Deputy Police Chief
Eric Halverson will take on
some detective and occasional
patrol duties.
Police Chief Brad Johnston
acknowledged in April that the
Screening
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Officer Macareno checks on the welfare of a dog that was re-
ported to be unattended in a vehicle in downtown Astoria last
Saturday. The dog was deemed to not be in any distress after
a follow-up inspection an hour later during the officer’s patrol.
department would have a dif-
ficult time until replacements
are hired, which will most cer-
tainly not happen until next
year.
In the meantime, patrol
officers will not reduce the
number of calls to which they
respond. In some situations,
they alter how they respond.
“If you want us to come
out, we’ll come out,” Aydt
said. “It’s just a matter of
prioritizing.”
‘People skills’
Witness-interviewing tech-
niques may be the most visi-
ble challenge for officers, Aydt
said. Witnesses often express
their emotions and opinions
about certain cases to an offi-
cer. But since they will be
short on time, Astoria Police
may need to focus such con-
versations solely on facts.
The practice, while tempo-
rarily necessary, is not ideal.
In a small town where offi-
cers may rely on witnesses
for multiple cases, developing
relationships through in-depth
conversation is valuable, Aydt
said.
“It takes a lot of people
skills,” he said.
When officers receive
calls about minor issues, they
may try to cut commute time
by calling the reporting party
instead of driving to their loca-
tion. If the matter still can’t
be resolved or the caller still
would like to have the offi-
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Candidates for the three
vacancies have undergone
testing and interviews since
the Police Department began
accepting applications in
April. The department is con-
ducting background checks on
seven finalists.
About 50 percent of candi-
dates typically fail background
checks, while others may turn
down a potential job offer,
Halverson said. He is, how-
ever, fairly confident that one
or two candidates will emerge.
When the checks conclude,
the new hires will get one
year of instruction at the state
Department of Public Safety
Standards and Training before
being slowly worked into the
patrol rotation.
Meanwhile, other agen-
cies — usually the Clatsop
County Sheriff’s Office — can
respond to a call within city
limits if a situation is ongoing
and Astoria officers are occu-
pied elsewhere. Other than
in these situations, though, it
would be difficult for other
agencies to assist. Officers
from outside Astoria may not
have a full grasp of city laws
and regulations.
“There’s not really a magic
way to bring those people from
outside to fill the void,” Halv-
erson said.
Dog: Gabe was named
in honor of a former
Warrenton Police officer
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He zeroed in on a chair set
in front of a long table fac-
ing the commissioners. After
a few passes back and forth,
he decided, yes, something
deeply fascinating was hid-
den under the chair’s seat.
Wirt snapped on a pair of
bright blue gloves, reached in
and pulled out a small packet.
“Yes! Good boy! Who’s
a good boy! Good boy!”
Wirt enthused in the heli-
um-pitched voice he swears
Gabe loves.
The demonstration was
“the fruition of where we
wanted to go” as a depart-
ment, said Police Chief
Mathew Workman. He is
confident Gabe will soon
begin to “make a dent” in the
city’s drug problems.
He replaces another Gabe
— Gabe 1.0. The Police
Department had been on the
lookout for another dog and
were able to purchase the cur-
rent Gabe thanks to donations
from the community, includ-
ing donations from one boy’s
grandparents in Pennsylvania
and a very generous contribu-
tion from local Lylla Gaebel.
Area businesses donated the
materials necessary to build
a kennel for him at Officer
Wirt’s house.
Gabe was named in honor
of Gaebel’s late husband, Jim
Gaebel, who worked for the
Warrenton Police Depart-
ment between 1997 and
2007.
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Dyer said he had planned
to vote for Mitchell but then
thought about what Mitch-
ell already does for the
community.
“It’d be real difficult to
replace him,” he said.
Newton, meanwhile, said
his personal choice would
have been to appoint Bald-
win, but he wanted to con-
sider the community’s
desires. He looked to the
endorsement letters the city
received after the candidates
were announced at the end of
May. There were seven let-
ters, plus one from a non-
resident, endorsing Mitch-
ell; six endorsing LeChurch;
and only one endorsing
Baldwin.
When Mitchell with-
drew, however, all four com-
missioners voted to appoint
Baldwin.
After the meeting, Bald-
win, a local contractor who
grew up in Warrenton, said
he is glad to get to serve the
city again.
He has no particular “ax to
grind,” he said, but he hopes
to hold the city accountable to
promises it made in the past.
He is thinking particularly of
the rising water and sewer
rates. The increases may not
be as necessary when War-
renton regains one of its big-
gest customers, Pacific Coast
Seafood, he said. The sea-
food company is expected to
move back into the area this
year after rebuilding from a
fire that destroyed its War-
renton plant in 2013.
Baldwin had pushed to
make the mayoral office
an elected position and
ran unsuccessfully against
Kujala in Warrenton’s first
mayoral election in 2014.
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