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Len 3 joint presentation
1. Law Enforcement Track:
Holistic Approaches to Combating
Prescription Drug Abuse
Captain Hank Dial – Captain, Huntington Police
Department, Huntington WV
Tim White – Regional Prevention Coordinator with
Prestera Center
2. Disclosures
•  Hank Dial has disclosed no relevant, real or apparent personal
or professional financial relationships.
•  Tim White has disclosed no relevant, real or apparent personal
or professional financial relationships.
3. Learning Objectives
1.  State
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2.  Demonstrate
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3.  Examine
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4. Introduction to the Issues
•  In 2007 we were forced to admit traditional law enforcement
methods were not working
•  Crime rates were rising
•  Public perception was at a low point
•  Drugs were taking over our City
•  Our approach had to change
5. Holistic Approaches Used in
Huntington
W&S
Smokin’Aces
DMI
Bright New Day
Demolition
Sunoco
EOD
R2R
6. Weed And Seed (2008 - 2010)
In 2008, the city of Huntington was one of 16 cities in the
country to be awarded a "Weed and Seed" designation. This
designation enabled the implementation of a crime reduction
strategy to an area of Huntington known for high crime.
This initiative provides funding for weeding (police operations)
and seeding (development and planning, community outreach),
strategy implementation. These strategies involve collaborations
between citizens, police, city officials, faith community, local
businesses and social support organizations to identify and solve
crime problems.
7. Weed & Seed Target Area
Contains about 20% of Huntington’s population
Weed and Seed area responsible for
1.  60% of murders
2.  77% of prostitution arrests
3.  44% of adult drug crimes
10. Accomplishments
  28% reduction in violent crime
  35% reduction in drug offenses
  201 violent and drug offenders tried, 156 convicted
  85% consider the neighborhood safe during the day (75% before W&S),
54% consider neighborhood safe at night ( 26% before W&S)
  Vandalism replaced murder/shootings as one of the top three crime
problems in the area as identified by the community
14. DMI (Drug Market Intervention)
Although the Weed & Seed program reduced
criminal activity in area of Huntington. A very
concentrated part of the Weed & Seed area was
still being plagued by high rates of violent and
drug crime.
This area represented 33% of all drug
offenses in the City of Huntington.
15. DMI (2009 – 2011)
DMI is a strategic problem-solving initiative
aimed at permanently closing down open-air
drug markets, that we duplicated from High
Point, NC.
The strategy targets individual drug markets
using focused deterrence with transformational
elements. The most violent offenders are targeted
and prosecuted as examples.
16. DMI
The strategy then targets low-level offenders and stages an
intervention with families and community leaders.
Law enforcement mobilizes community residents, leaders,
and family members of low-level drug dealers to voice
their intolerance for this criminal behavior and to create
opportunity and support for the offenders.
Offenders are given the option to straighten up or face
lengthy prison sentences and are provided assistance in
locating employment, housing, transportation, health care,
and access to other social services.
17. DMI Steps to Success
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Step 1 – Crime Mapping
Step 2 – Survey
Step 3 – Incident Review
Step 4 – Undercover Operation
Step 5 – Mobilize the Community
Step 6 – Contact with Offender’s Family
Step 7 – Call-In / Notification
Step 8 – Enforcement
Step 9 – Follow Up
18. DMI Target Area
Our DMI target area was a two block by four
block area in the Fairfield West Neighborhood.
19. DMI Results
Violent Crime decreased by 65%
Crime overall has decreased over 60%
At the end of the DMI strategy this area
represented 5% of all drug offenses in the City
of Huntington.
22. Sunoco “Gas Station”
The Sunoco was recognized in the community as
a symbol of everything that had gone wrong in
the Fairfield neighborhood.
It was a highly visible hub of drug sales and
other criminal activity in both the Weed and Seed
and DMI areas.
23. Sunoco Closure
Federal Food Stamp Case
Abderahmane Eloirzazi's
guilty plea includes
$127,000 in restitution
and the property was
turned over to the City of
Huntington.
25. EOD (Equal Opportunity
Destroyer)
The manufacturing, trafficking, selling, possessing and using of illegally
diverted prescription medications has been a major problem for the residents in
the Southern District of West Virginia.
In 2011 506 overdose calls were reported in the Southern District of WV.
The Cabell/Wayne County area had 285 of those overdose calls, which is
56% of all overdoses in the Southern District.
This is not only a public health problem, but the number one crime problem in
the area. In collaboration with the U.S. Attorney's Office, federal, state, and
other local law enforcement agencies the Huntington Police Department has
implemented an education and prevention program targeting a wide
demography (middle school, high school, college, and adults).
28. R2R (River to Rail) 2012 – Present
Lessons learned from Weed & Seed and DMI
Defined area based on crimes data, defined
benchmarks for success
Working closely with Steering Committee made
up of community members, business owners,
government agencies, and other invested parties
30. R2R Undercover Drug Operations
Date Location Notes
1/26/2013 320 W 5th St 1 arrest, crack
2/25/2013 922 9th Street W 2 arrests, guns, heroin
2/26/2013 11th St W Coaches Inn 2 arrests, pills
4/3/2013 2200 1/2 Washington Ave 2 arrests, pills, heroin
5/2/2013 1608 Madison 1 arrests pills
8/2/2013 522 14th St W Apt 1 & 2 2 arrests pills, heroin
8/15/2013 2504 1/2 Madison 4 arrests, heroin, guns
9/3/2013 1802 Jefferson Ave 1 arrests, guns, crack, pills
9/6/2013 924 Jackson Ave
1 arrests, guns, pills, crack,
heroin
10/18/2013 Int a shipment headed for area 700 pills
11/15/2013 746 Washington Ave
2 arrests, pills, CE - Do Not
Occupy
12/31/2013 1416 Jefferson 4 arrests, over 1lb heroin
31. R2R Directed Patrols
Directed Patrol Activity from January – April 2013
Activity Result
Vehicle Citations 170
Arrest 38
Heroin 242 grams
Crack/Cocaine 71.4 grams
Firearms 8
Currency $18,221
Illegally Diverted Prescription
Medications
522.5 du
32. Code Enforcement
Citation Category Entire City River to Rail
% Issued in River to
Rail
953.02 High Weeds / Combustibles 690 52 8%
951.05 Rubbish/Garbage 261 15 6%
951.10 Dumping 5 0 0%
534.04 Junk Storage 621 48 8%
302.01 Sanitation 52 4 8%
905.11 Obstructing Sidewalk 4 0 0%
301.03 Vacant Structures and Land 52 6 12%
905.14 Obstructing Drainage Ditches 7 1 14%
302.08 Unlicensed Vehicles 4 0 0%
1109.01 Decaying Substance 1 0 0%
Other 29 18 62%
Total 1726 144 8%
Total citations resolved 1058 131 12%
# in Compliance that were resolved 803 84 10%
% in Compliance 76% 64%
33. Community Engagement
West Huntington Organization
Old Central City Association
Sports Camp
Faith Based Org.
Defending Childhood Initiative (Central City
Elementary)
36. Non Law Enforcement -
Environmental
Environmental – PATH, Code Enforcement, Sidewalks,
Abandoned Buildings (West Middle)
37. Accomplishments
  Overall, Violent and Property crimes have all decreased since starting this
new philosophy
  Overall Decrease – 22% Reduction
  Violent Decrease – 30% Reduction
  Property Decrease – 15% Reduction
  Increased community buy-in
  Multi-jurisdictional partnerships with other law enforcement agencies
