The SCBA Public Safety Task Force met and invited Dallas Police Department Officers as well as Security Directors from companies within the Corridor to discuss safety issues affecting the area. At the meeting, several safety issues were discussed but most disturbing were the panhandlers that had taken over the intersection of Stemmons Freeway and Oak Lawn. City Council Member Pauline Medrano, numerous concerned citizens and several representatives from companies located in the Corridor contacted the SCBA office and asked for something to be done to clean up that intersection. At the Task Force meeting it was decided with the help of Bill Casey, Trammell Crow Security Director for the INFOMART, Dallas Police Department's Senior Corporal Kevin Janse and ICP Officer Kevin Ellis that a call to TEXDOT would be placed asking them to come in and clean up the area during an all day sweep of that area's panhandlers. Arrests were made, trash cleaned up...all-in-all a huge success. TEXDOT was contacted as they owned the problem site where the panhandlers were conducting their illegal activities.  This all stemmed from numerous phone calls made to SCBA, complaining of the filth that was accumulating down underneath the overpass. Broken liqour bottles, trash, a card table and chairs for the panhandlers to take a break from their illegal activities, food, human waste, and places for the group to sleep, all right underneath the Stemmons Freeway overpass at Oak Lawn.  

(STEMMONS & OAK LAWN- BEFORE CLEAN-UP EFFORTS BY
TEXDOT AND DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT)

(STEMMONS & OAK LAWN- AFTER TEXDOT & DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT
 CONDUCT A SWEEP AND CLEAN-UP)

If you have a site you want cleaned up in the Corridor, just contact the SCBA office at 214-800-8771 and provide us the details of the problem location.  SCBA will then notify the proper authorities in order to get the site cleaned up. Make the call, Make the difference- It works!

The Stemmons Corridor Business Association and the Dallas Police Department have teamed up together and are making available to all companies, hotels and apartment complexes, signs to post in the effort to reduce burglary to motor vehicles and auto thefts in the corridor. The signs indicate that a bait car may be in use in the area and if you steal a bait car you will go to jail. The thieves will never know if the car they are breaking into is a bait car or not. These signs will keep the criminals guessing, which is what we have to do to win the battle against burglary to motor vehicles and auto thefts. For more information on the signs or pricing please contact Brooke Dieterlen at 214-800-8771.

These signs will be available for purchase to post
on your properties and in your parking lots. 

On Tuesday, February 21st, Join the Stemmons Corridor Business Association's Board of Directors and membership at the organization's February Public Safety Meeting.  Featuring Toby Shook, Assistant District Attorney, who will be updating the SCBA membership on the District Attorney's Office issues that affect the Stemmons Corridor and what the D.A.'s office will focus on for 2006. The meeting will be held at the INFOMART, 1950 Stemmons Freeway, from 11:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.

Please register on the SCBA website's under event registration at www.scbadallas.org or call the event registration line at 214-800-8770 x3. Please leave your name, company name, phone number, number of attendees and the names of each attending.  Complimentary lunch will be provided to all pre-registered attendees courtesy of FirstWorthing. For more information, contact Brooke Dieterlen
at 214-800-8771.   

On January 10th, Deputy Chief, Cynthia Villarreal, spoke to SCBA membership and guests on the crime in the Corridor over 2005 and what the Dallas Police Department is working on to reduce crime in the Corridor for 2006. Over 60 people were in attendance representing the stakeholders in the Corridor at the complimentary luncheon which was hosted by Mark Kay Inc. Deputy Chief Villarreal's presentation included top ten lists for the companies in the Corridor that were affected most by Burglary to Motor Vehicles, as well as Auto Thefts.

Don't miss hearing from Assistant District Attorney, Toby Shook at SCBA's February Public Safety Meeting.  For more information on the upcoming event, please contact Brooke Dieterlen at 214-800-8771.