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Vol. 3 No. 3 | Richmond Suburban News | August 2, 2017
Officials, public not happy Sheriff uses SHIELD to keep citizens safe with DPRT review process
provide training for Hanover’s officers. The consultant also suggested HANOVER – Col. David R. Hines, Hines’ department partner with sheriff of Hanover County, is always NYPD. looking for new ways to keep the Hanover remodeled the NYPD citizens of the county safe and secure model to better fit the Hanover comas challenges continue to increase and munity and now is one of the founding expand. members of a network that includes Hines updated other agencies. the Hanover County His department Board of Supervisors has continued and last Wednesday on maintained programs one of the tools he that assist his agency is employing to with partnering with keep citizens better the public to ensure informed and less good communication anxious regarding and seek community local, national and sensitive solutions to international events. crime trends. In addition to “You have to get routine crimes like the community to robbery, assault and buy-in for what you COL. DAVID R. HINES a variety of offenses are doing,” Hines said, being perpetrated in the “whether that’s at a county, Hines and his staff also are community event, a business opening focused on terrorism threats. or if it’s a deputy putting up a mailbox His concerns were heightened for someone who had their mailbox when thousands of spectators from knocked down. That’s what we do.” around the world descended on The Shield program is one of those Hanover County for the time trails of community-based partnerships that the 2015 ICI Bicycle championships. include 142 churches, 144 neighbor“We never thought we’d be in the hoods and 500 businesses. terrorism business,” Hines said. But Hines wanted to reach more The SHIELD program had humble citizens “maybe groups that no conbeginnings when the New York City nection to any of those or who lived in Police Department began a program a neighborhood without a neighborto share information with VIPs and hood watch. We wanted a mechanism large businesses. that would connect to every citizen in Shortly before the bike race, Hines the county.” brought in a retired security expert to see SHIELD, pg. 4
By Jim Ridolphi for The Mechanicsville Local
By Jim Ridolphi for The Hanover Local ASHLAND -- The ire of the public rose almost as fast as the temperature at a Department of Rail and Public Transportation’s Citizens Advisory Committee held last week at Randolph-Macon College. A standing room only crowd braved almost intolerable conditions to express their opposition to proposed routes for a high-speed rail connection between Richmond and Washington, D.C. A capacity crowd packed Birdsong Hall on the R-MC campus and spilled into the hall and third floor of the
Board members set the tone early with indications that they were prepared to eliminate some of the proposed routes from consideration. DRPT project analyst Emily Stock said she thought “That would be helpful.” She outlined the alternatives being considered for the Ashland portion of the project. “We are looking at all different options,” Stock said. They include through town and bypass options, a number of third track plans, and the construction of an underground tunnel through the Town of Ashland. But threading the needle and negotiating a path laden
Jim Ridolphi for The Local
Some groups wore blue, and some groups wore red, but groups of residents who live in proposed routes, both eastern and western and third rail, voiced their opposition at a meeting with a citizens advisory committee established to study the alternative routes. It was standing room only at R-MC’s Birdsong Hall, and soaring temperatures made for tough conditions during the three-hour meeting.
building. The oversized crowd endured sweltering temperatures as the HVAC unit struggled to cool the overfilled room. It was apparent early in the meeting that this gathering was going to be different from the two previous editions where DRPT officials talked and the public listened.
with opposition from residents affected by all of the various alternatives won’t be easy. Ashland Mayor James Foley addressed concerns raised at last month’s meeting regarding an eastern bypass option, a plan officials said was unworkable due to disturbance of see DPRT, pg. 4