Van Alstyne police recorded 4,656 calls for service between Aug. 31 and Oct. 1, according to the city's monthly public safety report, included in the packet for Tuesday's City Council meeting.
Officers wrote 51 incident reports and logged 244 hours of training in that period. Dispatchers took 239 calls to 911, handled 4,895 calls for service and fielded 4,084 phone calls overall. The municipal court closed 546 cases, and the records office processed 79 open records requests.
Fire department
The fire department answered 130 incidents between Aug. 29 and Sept. 29. Medical calls made up 100 of them. The rest were nine hazardous situations, six fires, 10 public service calls and five non-emergency calls. Personnel logged 247 training hours.
The report lists two full-time vacancies: a firefighter/paramedic and a driver/engineer.
Among the department's ongoing projects, the report lists rewriting and adding standard operating procedures, including updates to meet new state mandates; meetings on the planned public safety facility; long-term station and staffing planning, including a five-year strategic plan; hydrant testing; Medicare revalidation work with its EMS billing company; and an AFG grant.
It says reimbursement has come in for protective gear bought through Forest Service grants. Firefighters were also visiting the lower-grade schools for Fire Prevention Week.
