20 Year Service Award Recipient
Congratulations to Sgt Larry Brown for 20 years of dedicated service to LPSO and the Citizens of Lafayette Parish.
Sgt Brown is a supervisor within the LPSO Criminal Divison.
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Shenandoah Neighborhood Watch Appreciates Deputies
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Dear Sheriff Neustrom
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Dear Sheriff Neustrom:
I would like to start off by thanking the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Department for their assistance in the planning and implementation of our Neighborhood Watch program. As you may already be aware, our neighborhood is not within the city limits of any smaller municipality, and is simply part of rural Lafayette Parish. Our neighborhood had increasing problems with thefts and criminal damage to property, and simply used the Lafayette Parish Sheriff s Department as a means of reporting the incidents.
After much frustration, our neighborhood decided it was time to take action and put a stop to our neighborhood problems. Sergeant Tom Stith with the Community Services Unit has been more than helpful and cooperative in assisting with getting the Neighborhood Watch up and running, and keeping it maintained.
Sergeant Stith and Deputy Elisa Foster came to our first Neighborhood Watch meeting armed with flyers, pamphlets, and a well of information which they shared with us. They gave us instruction on personal safety, securing our homes, monitoring the neighborhood and keeping ourselves safe in doing so, and dealing with certain situations that may arise, as well as how to work with the Sheriffs Department in resolving our problems, including a pro-active approach at deterring crime.
Our neighborhood also had a block party several months after starting our program, at which Sergeant Stith, his lovely wife, and Deputy Darrell Doucet attended. Sergeant Stith and Deputy Doucet presented some of our Neighborhood Watch Block Captains with the signs we had ordered and that were delivered to the Sheriff s Department, and made sure to get to know
the neighbors, listen to their concerns, and generally let the neighborhood know that the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Department is backing us in our endeavor.
I also wanted to add that Sergeant Stith and his wife attended the block party on their own personal time and we are very thankful to them for their presence and for Sergeant Stith's respectable work ethic. He is an asset to the Sheriff's Department, Actually, Sergeant Tom Stith, Deputy Darrell Doucet, and Deputy Elisa Foster, are all assets to your Department.
I initially had some doubts about the Neighborhood Watch program and its effectiveness. However, after just a few weeks, our neighborhood was seeing a decrease in criminal and mischievous activity, and after just a few months, the neighborhood is relatively quiet.
When the Shenandoah Neighborhood Watch began, our neighborhood was having approximately 3 to 4 incidents (give or take a few) per week. Our neighborhood now has zero incidents per week with just an occasional problem reported. It appears that with a little pro¬active involvement, we are able to deter problems in our neighborhood.
Again, I thank the Lafayette Parish Sheriff s Department, Sergeant Tom Stith, Deputy Darrell Doucet, and Deputy Elisa Foster, as well as all of the patrolling deputies, in helping to continue to make our neighborhood a safe haven for our families!
With kind regards, I remain
Very truly yours,
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Marguerite Fitzgerald, Shenandoah Neighborhood Watch Coordinator
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Press Releases
Neustrom Honors Deputies of the Quarter
Thursday, April 11, 2002
The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Michael W. Neustrom would like to recognize the following outstanding Deputies who are being honored as Deputy of the Quarter within their respective Divisions.
Administration
Deputy Kathy Piccione – Civil Seizure and Sales, is a seven-year veteran of the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office. She has efficiently and professionally handled massive amounts of paperwork for seizures and sales, spending extra hours on weekends and in the evenings to complete these tasks. Piccione “continues to make herself available whenever called upon for assistance in other sections of the division and is a great asset to the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office.”
Corrections
Sergeant Walter Sampy, a 17-year veteran of the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office, currently serves as the Food Production Supervisor for the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center. Sgt Sampy always projects a positive attitude. He is a professional chef with over 40 years of culinary experience, and routinely accomplishes the difficult task of teaching inmate workers with little or no experience. He has successfully molded inmate workers into bakers, cooks, pantry/inventory control workers as well as modified diet cooks. This teaching is done while coordinating other food service tasks – serving almost one million meals/year – and while battling diabetes (he receives dialysis 3 days/week after his eight hour shift).
Enforcement
Deputy Mark Brasseaux, is a 12-year veteran, and is currently assigned to the Criminal Warrants section of the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office. Earlier this year, Deputy Brasseaux’s outstanding display of investigative skills, interrogative skills and observatory skills” enabled him to clear several outstanding arrest warrants, and an armed robbery by locating and arresting both suspects. The weapon, ski mask and coveralls used in the robbery were also recovered. From the time the warrants were signed, to the time both suspects were apprehended was approximately two and ˝ hours.
Donna Delahoussaye
Media Relations/Project Coordinator
Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office
337-236-5814
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