Wellesley Police Stats Show Drop in Arrests, Criminal Complaints

Police received fewer calls, made fewer arrests and issued fewer criminal complaints.

Wellesley Police Stats Show Drop in Arrests, Criminal Complaints

Police received fewer calls, made fewer arrests and issued fewer criminal complaints.

  The Wellesley Police Department recently released some statistics for the last year, reporting some of the police action from 2012 in relation to previous years.  There were fewer burglaries in Wellesley in the last year, 26 compared to 30 in 2011. Of the 2012 incidents, three were in businesses. Police also made fewer arrests and issued fewer criminal complaints in 2012 than in previous years. Criminal complaints being situations in which police file charges but do not arrest a suspect. There were fewer calls made to the department than in 2012, although about the same number as in 2010 and 2009. These service calls could be anything from an arrest to a noise complaint to a medical emergency, the Wellesley Police announcement notes.  …

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Wellesley Police Make 17 Arrests in December

Call stats show that Police made 6 more arrests in December than in November (11). Number of break-ins the same for both months, two each.

[Update: The Wellesley Police recently released a news video on their YouTube channel which illuminates some of the calls with more official information. See the video, right, for more. Feb. 11] On average, people were calling the Wellesley Policewere called about 2,090 times in November (roughly 70 calls per day) and 1,974 in December (about 64 calls a day)--for everything from medical emergencies to break-ins.  According to stats released by the Wellesley Police Department, there were 17 arrests in December and 11 in November. Police also responded to two break-ins in the two months: one commercial and one residential in November, both in December were residential. See the full call stats, and definitions on the Wellesley Police website…

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