The Waterbury Police Activity League and Safe Kids Greater Waterbury are having a Safety Day.  Please join us for a fun and educational day including free popcorn and prizes.

The event will take place:

Date: Saturday May 9th, 2009
Time: 10:00am- 2:00pm
Place: PAL Recreation Center
64 Division St
Waterbury, CT
 

Meet public safety personnel and equipment including:

• Waterbury Police Department Mobile Command Post
• Buckle up DOT
• 911 Simulator - Campion Ambulance
• AMR Ambulance
• Smoke House Waterbury Fire Department
• Poison Control
• Waterbury Elks
• Water Safety - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• AmeriChoice - Husky Program
• Moon Walk

The Waterbury Police Department Open House was a great success.  The event, which was hosted by the Waterbury Police Activity League, took place at 64 Division Street.  Guest had the opportunity to meet with representatives from various divisions within the Waterbury Police Department.  Demonstrations by ERT(SWAT), K-9 officers, and the Forensics Lab took place during the event. Follow the link to view photographs of the event.

The Waterbury Crime Stoppers Ziti Dinner is an annual event to raise funds for the program. Crime Stoppers offers cash rewards up to $1,000 to anonymous individuals that provide information that leads to an arrest. The Ziti Dinner helps to raise the funds to provide these rewards. To report a crime please call 755-1234 or text TIP719 plus your information to CRIMES (274637). To see pictures of this year’s event please click the link below.

Annual Crime Stoppers ZITI Dinner

Waterbury police conducted their second reverse prostitution sting in a month in the Hillside neighborhood.

Friday night into Saturday morning, two female officers posed as prostitutes in Hillside which has the reputation as the spot to pick up prostitutes.

The sting nabbed 39 men, including 11 from out of town, one teenager and two New York residents. All of the men were charged with soliciting a prostitute from a motor vehicle. And all of their cars were towed and impounded.

Last month, 27 men and one woman were arrested in a similar undercover sting.

Police spokesman Lt. Christopher Corbett said there will be more stings.

"We will continue to strictly enforce prostitution laws in Waterbury, not just going after the prostitutes themselves, but the men who solicit them," Corbett said Saturday.

Waterbury police are searching for a man they say exposed himself to three young girls and tried to convince a fourth to enter his car.

Edgardo Lopez, 29, of 45 Bergin Circle, faces a slew of charges stemming from four separate incidents.

Last Friday, a 10-year-old girl was walking on Radcliffe Avenue in the city's East End when a man in a dark-colored car called to her. The girl, a student at nearby Chase School, walked to the car, where police say the man exposed himself to her.

The next day, police said, the same man in the same car was on Overton Avenue, also in the city's East End, when he tried to convince another 10-year-old girl to get in his car. The girl refused.

This week, detectives in unmarked cars conducted surveillance near Chase School.