Henrico Police will no longer respond to certain shoplifting, panhandling and noise calls
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Henrico Police will no longer send patrol units to certain calls for service that you may call into emergency dispatch, Henrico Police Chief Eric English announced Monday in a video posted on YouTube. Those calls include certain:
- Animal calls
- Loud parties or noise complaints
- Medical emergencies
- Service calls
- Shoplifting
- Abandoned vehicles
- Marijuana use
- Juvenile problems
- Panhandling
"We understand these changes may take some time to get used to. This will be a learning curve for not only you, our community members, but also for our patrol units and dispatchers in the Department of Emergency Communications," English said. "Each call will be assessed on a call-by-call basis... Our division could see a decrease of nearly 5,000 calls, which would again allow our patrol units to respond to other calls in a more efficient and timely manner."
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