I am posting the link to the Cheshire Police Department Monthly Reports for July. I want to thank the Cheshire Town Managers Office and Police Chief Michael Cruess for keeping the reports up to date. I know it has been a difficult time for our town and our emergency response teams. But they all did a great job considering the circumstances.

I know many of you are worried. But let me tell you again, Cheshire is a safe town. The Police cannot be everywhere. We cannot expect them to. All of us in this town have to get involved. We have to look out for each other. We have to be the eyes and ears. If you see something you think is out of the ordinary, contact the police. Don’t feel embarrassed about it. The police will respond.

I read in one of the local papers that Cheshire Police Home Security Checks in Cheshire have increased from one or two a month to over two a day. Apparently the CPD is also going to distribute a walk-through pamphlet designed to make sure your home is secure.

But as always, the best defense is a good offense. And that offense is yourself and your neighbors looking out for each other.

I remember several years ago, there was this ad for a dummy man that you could purchase. I can’t remember the name of this product, but a consumer could dress the dummy man up to look like a security guard or a biker or whatever. The “man” could be placed in your car, i.e. if you were a woman driving alone, you were supposed to put the”man” in your car trunk, and then after work, especially if you worked nights, take the “man” out of your trunk and place him in your car to make it look like you always had a passenger. I don’t think this product went over too well because, frankly I could see problems right from the beginning. I imagined a woman or even a man for that matter, putting this dummy into the trunk of one’s car and some idiot calling the police thinking it was a dead body. That probably happened more than you want to think that is probably why I don’t see this product advertised anymore.

I also remember the advertisement stating that you could sit the dummy near a window of your home when you were going on vacation and people would think someone was home. Oh, come on, how stupid was that idea!! I would think that if someone was casing your home, after a few days of “watching” this dummy and noticing it was not moving, could be another major problem. I always wanted to find out how many of these dummies they actually conned people into buying.

Ok, well enough of that and now onto the monthly reports.

P. S. The jury duty saga continues. That will be in the next post. Stay tuned!!

Here is the Police Monthly Report: Click Here (PDF)

FINALLY: I did get the answer of what happened in the matter of the 45 year old man found dead in his car in April. Read the reports to find out.