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Robert D. Brown, Jr.

Chief of Police

972-780-5038
rdbrown@duncanvillepd.com

Mark LiVigni

Assistant Chief

(972) 780-5035
mlivigni@duncanvillepd.com

Dorian Johnson

Executive Assistant

972-707-3888
djohnson@duncanvillepd.com

Doug Sisk

Crime Prevention Specialist

972-780-5027
dsisk@duncanvillepd.com

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Duncanville Police Department

3 months ago

Just a reminder about your vehicle registration.Does your vehicle registration expire this month? Please read the following information completely and carefully:

▪️ In March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Abbott issued a temporary waiver from the requirement to renew registration. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬.

▪️ If your registration has expired, there is no deadline to renew while the waiver is in effect.

▪️ When this waiver is no longer in effect, TxDMV will make an announcement on TxDMV.gov and our social media channels. You may sign up to receive an email notification of this announcement at public.govdelivery.com/accounts/TXDMV/subscriber/new?topic_id=TXDMV_290.

▪️ Following the announcement that the waiver is no longer in effect, you will have 60 days from the date of the announcement to have your vehicle inspected and complete the registration process. For example, if the announcement is made October 1, you would have 60 days from October 1 to come into compliance.

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

▪️ If you renew your registration during the waiver period, you are still required to pass vehicle inspection first. If you have already obtained a passing vehicle inspection, you may renew your registration online at renew.TxDMV.gov/.

▪️ You may also renew your registration by mail, and, in some counties, in person. Contact your local county tax office directly to determine if in-person or drop-off services are available at any of the office locations in your county.

▪️ Services available in one county are not necessarily available in other counties at this time.

𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

▪️ Law enforcement agencies statewide have been notified of this waiver, however, we are not a law enforcement agency and cannot speak to the policies of individual agencies or the actions of officers, and we cannot provide legal advice if a citation is issued.

𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀?

▪️ Please see www.TxDMV.gov/covid-19 for more information and answers to frequently-asked questions.

🔴 𝙍𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙨 𝘿𝙚𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙧 𝙑𝙚𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚 𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙨. Please contact the Texas Department of Public Safety for assistance with driver licenses, learner permits, identification cards, and all related services: www.dps.texas.gov. ... See MoreSee Less

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Duncanville Police Department

3 months ago

Shout out to the officer who came through and showed my kids some love. They loved the tour of the truck and visit ... See MoreSee Less

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3 months ago

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3 months ago

DUNCANVILLE POLICE SAVE INFANT

Duncanville, TX – August 21, 2020
Just after 5:00 PM on August 17, 2020, Duncanville Police Officers responded to a citizen call of a child left alone and appearing to be asleep in a vehicle on the 900 Block of Gemini Avenue in Duncanville. Upon arrival, Officer Pinilla confirmed an infant was locked in a vehicle alone, in a car seat, and appeared to be crying, sweating, and was covered in vomit. Officer Pinilla, after requesting paramedics over his portable police radio, quickly shattered the vehicle window away from where the infant was seated and secured the nearly one-year-old in his air-conditioned patrol vehicle until paramedics arrived. The mother of the infant was identified and had arrived in the same vehicle from which the infant was saved, along with the infant’s grandmother and two of the infant’s older siblings. All indications seem to point to this being a mistake caused by false assumptions and faulty communication about the infant’s well-being. However, a referral was made regarding the incident to Child Protective Services (CPS) as well as to a Dallas County Grand Jury to determine if civil or criminal accountability stemming from this incident is appropriate.

The Duncanville Police Department is thankful this incident did not result in a more tragic outcome as so many unfortunate incidents of children being left in hot vehicles do. Due to an alert and concerned citizen calling, and due to the definitive, quick actions of Officer Pinilla, both of whom will undoubtedly be regarded as heroes by the rescued infant for the rest of its life, a tragedy was averted.

During the trying times, which we’ve all experienced these last several months, coupled with school-aged children either already having returned to school or who are about to return to some semblance of school, parents and caregivers are stressed. We implore everyone to please slow down, especially those with very young children, and account for those who cannot do for themselves.

Research shows that even on what would be considered a mild day with an outside temperature of 70 degrees, temperatures inside closed vehicles can become dangerously hot. Because radiation from the sun is absorbed inside a closed vehicle and is trapped, a baking effect occurs and causes the inside temperature to rise dramatically. During that mild, sunny 70-degree day, it only takes about a half-hour for the temperature inside a closed vehicle to reach 104 degrees. After an hour, it can reach 113 degrees. When outside temperatures range from 80 to 100 degrees, the internal temperature of a vehicle can reach a scorching 130 to 172 degrees.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), children dying from heatstroke in a vehicle, either because they were left or became trapped, happens too often and can be averted. Nationally, just over 50 young children have perished in this manner each of the last two calendar years.
HEATSTROKE FACTS
The majority of hot vehicle deaths — 54% — happen because someone forgets a child in a vehicle. How does this happen? Families who lost a child in such a manner once pondered the same question at one point, but then the tragedy happened to them. According to Jan Null, Department of Meteorology & Climate Science, San Jose State University, who has been tracking vehicular heatstroke deaths since 1998, some grim statistics regarding these types of tragedies from which we can all learn include:
• About 46% of the time when a child was forgotten, the caregiver meant to drop the child off at a daycare or preschool
• Thursdays and Fridays — the end of the workweek — have had the highest deaths
• Nearly 75% of children who are forgotten, and die, are under 2 years of age
TIPS FOR KEEPING CHILDREN SAFE
Check for Baby: Parents and caregivers, get in the habit of always looking inside your vehicle before locking the doors. Remember: Park. Look. Lock. And always ask yourself, "Where's Baby?"
Link to Duncanville Police Department Video: youtu.be/7J3tUhRaavc

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Duncanville Police Department

3 months ago

Just wanted to provide an update on National Night Out (NNO) event on October 6, 2020. This year we will not be hosting a city-wide event at the Duncanville Recreation Center. Due to COVID-19 the area is to small and enclosed to have the number of citizens attend to do so safely.

So, this year’s plan is to recommend neighborhoods gather in small groups (keeping the safety guidelines in mind – wearing of face coverings, social distancing, and small groups). If your neighborhood is interested, please complete the NNO registration form to and return it to Officer Sisk by September 25, 2020. We will then make arrangements for the Police Department, Fire Department, other city services and city officials to make their round to do their best to attend each gathering.

We also recommend that each location have hand sanitizer available and not have potluck style food due to the possibility of cross contamination. Suggest like prepackaged individual snack type items.

If you have any questions please contact Officer Doug Sisk (972) 780-5027 or dsisk@duncanvillepd.com. ... See MoreSee Less

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3 months ago

DUNCANVILLE POLICE IMPLEMENT CRIME AWARENESS FOR CITIZENS

Duncanville, TX – August 17, 2020

Duncanville residents will now be able to utilize a crime mapping tool to be more informed about reported crime within the City of Duncanville. This tool, CrimeMapping.com, interfaces with the Duncanville Police Department’s Records Management System (RMS) to map, list and chart general crime as reported. The Duncanville Police Department is excited to announce this tool to its citizens as a means to enhance their ability to access general crime data efficiently. Although this tool is anticipated to allow for more information-sharing about generalized crime to our citizens, it does not provide sensitive information about each reported crime due to victims’ privacy issues as well as issues pertaining to investigation integrity.

CrimeMapping.com can be accessed from any computer or mobile device either directly at www.CrimeMapping.com, or via a link on the City of Duncanville’s website. The desired data of each individual, based on his/her parameters, includes sharp map visuals and icons which clearly depict reported crimes in areas of interest (work, home, schools or daycare facilities).

The www.CrimeMapping.com website also allows users the ability to set individualized crime alerts around specific addresses by setting up automatic notifications pertinent to the area and/or reported crime(s) selected. A short instructional video, which can be found towards the bottom of the homepage at www.CrimeMapping.com, provides a detailed overview of the site’s features. ... See MoreSee Less

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4 months ago

This month, many years ago, I made the difficult decision to end an abusive and toxic relationship. After making that decision, things go a lot harder before they go easier! Thanks for the many angels who helped me along the way. I share the following letter that I wrote to the Duncanville Police Departement today (sent to Chief Brown). Below is a slightly edited version for FaceBook.

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Chief Brown,
I am not sure how long you have been in your position or in the Duncanville Police Department, but I wanted to say thank you as a person whose life was impacted positively by the Duncanville Police Department many years ago. Please share this with your team, as you see appropriate, as I imagine some of your current officers were involved and even those who weren't should know that people like me appreciate the work that you do every single day.

In 2003, I graduated from college in Nashville, and soon after, moved to Dallas for my first real full-time job. I worked on the business side of healthcare as a consultant, installing software to help hospitals collect money from insurance companies more fully and more quickly. As I settled in, after purchasing my first home in Duncanville (211 Azalea Lane), I became involved in some community activities, getting to know my neighbors, and participating actively in a church. Through this last affiliation, I became involved with a young man who, to be kind, was a wolf in sheep's clothing. In 2004, we were married, and by 2006, I found myself in an emotionally abusive relationship [details removed for this post]. I was alone (no family in TX and finding that my mutual affiliations with my soon-to-be ex-husband exposed me to further risk, I had to be very careful and introverted).

In August of 2006, I formally filed for divorce, kicked him out if my home, and changed the locks. His manipulation and abuse escalated immediately and he developed an obsession with stalking and threatening me.

This person followed me around, broke into my home, waited for me at home or work (after I changed jobs and started working for a hospital in Grapevine), and started a smear campaign against me among my newfound friends and church-goers. It was scary. He threatened to kill me. His father, a retired police officer in another town "mentioned" to me ... [details removed for this post]. I lived in fear. I would come home from work to find booby-traps set up in my own home, the home I bought on my own before I ever met my nemesis. I would try to take a car trip out of town, to see family or friends, and I would find him at the very same gas station, hours away. I regularly slept on friend's couches, friend's parents' couches, or wherever I felt a little safer at night, especially when I would find my home disturbed or occupied when I arrived home from work.

It was a very tough time in many ways, as you can only imagine. As a person of faith with a strong conviction for living a life of purpose, I prayed to my Heavenly Father each day, that I was prepared to die if it was His will, but that if I had more to do in life to please protect me and allow me another day to live.

I filed for civil restraining orders more than once, but due to my still being married for almost a year (as he refused to sign the divorce decree and even sought spousal support!), I couldn't sell my home, rent it out or flee as quickly as I wished.

During that dark time of my life, I regularly called the Duncanville PD, to report him trying to break down my front door or trying to break in through the windows in the middle of the night. I also called because I could see his car parked somewhere nearby (I would have to drive loops through my neighborhood, as he was frequently parked somewhere else while lurking about on foot). I would call because I thought I heard something in the night! I literally lived in fear that he would surprise me at any time (which he frequently did [details removed for this post]). He was always quick to run off or drive away before the police showed up.

Always, the police came within minutes. The dispatchers knew my scared voice and never minimized my requests. The police officers were also so kind to me and treated me with such respect and true concern. I felt a little like I was on a ridiculous reality TV show, relying on law enforcement to help me manage my disastrous personal life. But, no one ever treated me like that. Each time, they called me by name, asked if I was okay, offered to (and frequently did) stick around in their cars out in front of my house for hours following a call. One night, after a particularly alarming visit by my ex, an officer told me that the police department had already put me on a daily check, where at the beginning and end of their shifts and at other times, officers would drive by my house, to deter any unwanted visitors and to make sure they didn't see anything suspicious. I felt like I had a whole family of bigger siblings (in unforms and with firearms) on the ready, looking out for me. God answered my prayers of safety and peace in a few ways, but especially through the angelic service of the Duncanville Police Department officers.

I can't imagine what it is like to be a police officer and to face the unknown each and every time you respond to a call, pull a car over, or stop to check on something that seems suspicious. But, I can imagine how different my life would be if I didn't feel the support and safety that the police could offer me at a time when, as a citizen, I relied on it as a lifeline! I am certain that without the constant and speedy response from the police department, the outcome could have been much, much worse for me.

Thank you so much for your service. Thank you for the nights you don't get to be home with your families because you are watching out for lonely scared 20-something women being hunted in the dark. Thank you for the personal risks you take to uphold the law. Thank you to those who lose their lives or their ability to support their families due to altercations with criminals. Thank you for the emotional trauma that you must endure so frequently. Thank you for your sincere concern for the real people who need you. Thank you from me.

(Fast forward, I met a wonderful single dad and when I became a mom to his son when we married in 2008, I enjoyed the blessings of surviving that dark period of my life in order to be a mother to a sweet boy. Eventually, we relocated to GA to be closer to grandparents, siblings, and cousins for the kids. I had 2 more kids, and now we are expecting one more in March! I still work in healthcare, helping hospitals keep their doors open. At this turbulent time in our country, I am so grateful for my life and my opportunities. Yes, I have some PTSD. But, I survived and try to make a difference in the world, too!)

Sincerely,
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Duncanville Police Department

4 months ago

🗣 Crime Watch Meeting

Due to the on going pandemic with COVID-19 we have not been able to interact and visit with Duncanville citizens face to face in awhile. Starting next week, Officer Doug Sisk will be sending out Zoom Meeting invites to different Neighborhoods to do some virtual Crime Watch Meetings. We want to stay connected to our citizens and help with any ideas, concerns or question you may have. We will send out invites through Nextdoor to individual neighborhoods starting next week to invite you to attend. If you have questions or concerns you would like us to address during the 40 min Zoom meeting email them to Officer Sisk at dsisk@duncanvillepd.com. ... See MoreSee Less

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