48°F
weather icon Clear

Proper numbers reduce unneeded phone calls

I have been asked to provide a short list of contact numbers to help eliminate the unneeded calls to the police department. I have compiled a few for you to cut, clip and post in a prominent location:

Boulder City Police nonemergency: 311 or 702-293-9224

Boulder City Municipal Court: 702-293- 9278

Boulder City Justice Court: 702-455-8000

Boulder City city manager’s office: 702-293-9202

Boulder City personnel department: 702-293-9203

Boulder City Public Works Department: 702-293-9200

Boulder City Parks and Recreation Department: 702-293-3320

Boulder City Animal Shelter: 702-293-9283

National Park Service Police Department: 702-293-8998

Hoover Dam Police Department: 888-248-1259

North Las Vegas Police Department: 702-633-9111

Nevada Department of Transportation: 702-385-6500

Nevada traffic conditions: 511

Nevada Department of Wildlife: 775-688-1331

Clark County School Police: 702-799-5411

Metropolitan Police Department: 702-828-3111

Henderson Police Department: 702-267-4913

Nevada Highway Patrol: 702-486-4100, ext. 6

Arizona Department of Public Safety: 928-773-3600

January 12. Trespass: The initial complaint was for a handicapped parking violation and ends with a trespass from the related business at 11:06 a.m. in the 1000 block of Nevada Way.

Suspicious: The caller wants to report a man dragging a mattress across the roadway in the area of U.S. Highway 93 and Saint Jude’s Street.

Thought for the day: The bungee tie-down wasn’t quite good enough for the open road.

January 13. Assist other: Officers are dispatched to assist medical with a call for service where the intoxicated party is refusing to cooperate at 1:00 a.m. in the 1000 block of Industrial Road.

Disturbance: The man agrees to leave but wants someone to produce a missing wheelchair at 2:33 p.m. in the 900 block of Adams Boulevard.

Thought for the day: Medical can handle intoxication; however, the really big dog is another story.

January 14. Suspicious vehicle: Officers are out with an unoccupied vehicle with all the doors open at 3:46 a.m. in the 1300 block of Shenandoah Street.

Private property accident: A man is in the station to file a report after a large truck backed over his racing bicycle at 5:32 p.m. in the 1000 block of Arizona Street.

Thought for the day: Some of those bicycles cost more than a motor vehicle.

January 15. Juvenile disturbance: Officers are out with a group of juveniles that are moving the construction cones and blocking the street.

Assist other: Officers assist in locating the source of the smoke smell at 9:35 p.m. in the 1200 block of Sixth Street.

Thought for the day: The folks firing up their wood stove for the first time this year sure were surprised by all the commotion.

January 16. Suspicious vehicle: Officers catch up with the wrong-way driver who seems quite unaware of the infraction at 4:20 a.m. in the 800 block of Nevada Way.

Fire: Reports of a vehicle fire get the entire crew scrambling at 4:43 a.m. in the area of mile marker 4 on State Route 165.

Thought for the day: That’s one lucky driver considering the wrong way began at Wagon Wheel Drive.

January 17. Vandalism: The caller returns to find his property vandalized in the middle of a remodel at 1:14 p.m. in the 600 block of California Avenue.

Suspicious: The caller states a woman is sound asleep outside and appears intoxicated at 11:47 p.m. in the 500 block of Avenue B.

Thought for the day: It is so awesome that so many places have video surveillance and we have real-time evidence.

January 18. Fight: Officers arrive to find a melee with serious injuries at 12:13 p.m. in the 700 block of Fifth Street.

Drunk: The caller states the intoxicated man is having a bit of a problem staying upright on the bicycle at 8:25 p.m. in the 700 block of Capri Drive.

Thought for the day: Don’t drink and pedal.

Call of the week: Theft: The caller is very concerned about a recent theft that has been caught on surveillance cameras. After a thorough review, the culprits have been noted, the beer will be replaced and will be secured in the future at 6:38 p.m. January 12 in the 1500 block of Sandra Drive.

Tina Ransom is a dispatcher with Boulder City Police Department. She is coordinator of the Boulder City Citizen’s Academy.

MOST READ
LISTEN TO THE TOP FIVE HERE
THE LATEST
Breeding issue tabled …again

It is a can that has been kicked down the road for almost three years – or more like 14 years, depending on how you count. And it got kicked down the road again last week as the city council failed to come to a consensus on the issue of pet breeding in Boulder City.

Put that dog on a leash BC tightens “at-large” law

The most important part of what happens in a city council meeting is not always the vote. Sometimes it is something that seems minor at the time. This week, as the council finally voted unanimously to tighten up Boulder City’s notoriously lax leash law, the important part came long before any discussion about the actual law.

Hoover Dam hosts Capitol Christmas Tree

There are a couple of things that unite most Nevadans: how people often mispronounce that state’s name and for those who have been around a while, their dislike of the Duke men’s basketball team.

BCHS coach ‘unavailable’ for football playoff game

Parents of student athletes playing on Boulder City High School’s football team received a note last Thursday morning from BCHS Principal Amy Wagner informing them that the team’s head coach would be “unavailable” for that night’s playoff game.

Remembering a friend and war hero

Robert Brennan and Richard Gilmore met in eighth grade and became instant friends, the kind of friendship that most kids can only dream of.

Hardy feted by League of Cities

Anyone who has been around the Boulder City political world for any stretch of time already knows that Mayor Joe Hardy is a pretty humble guy and not one to toot his own horn.

Utility director Stubitz takes new job with state

When Utilities Director Joe Stubitz briefed the city council on the status of Boulder City’s Dark Sky initiative, which involves replacing hundreds of street light fixtures with modern versions that aim light onto the ground and not into the sky, it was notable for reasons beyond spending and how soon the program would be finished.