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COMMUNITY POLICING FORUM – Tuesday March 22, 2011

Public Service Announcement

Jeff Halstead, Chief of Police for the Fort Worth Police Department, invites you to a police public awareness forum

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

7:00 PM until 8:00 PM

Trimble Technical High school

1003 W. Cannon St.

This forum will be conducted to:

  • Continue a better verbal dialogue between the community and the police department

  • Maintain a continuous working relationship and address the various concerns of the community

In this meeting, community groups and residents will have the opportunity to hear about the latest projects and programs, ask questions and give feedback to numerous police officials.

Chief of Police Jeff Halstead and other police department representatives will attend the forum.

Because you care about what happens in your neighborhood, please attend. Please invite your neighbors, your COP groups, and your Neighborhood Watch groups. For more information, please contact the Public Relations Office at (817) 392-4215 or (817) 392-4299.

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JURY DUTY SCAM! POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Pass this on to your grown children. This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below). Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book. It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call. Most of us take those summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty that a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced.

The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of this information and bingo; your identity was just stolen.

The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma , Illinois, and Colorado . This (swindle) is particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they are with the court system.

The FBI and the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.
Check it out here: http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm

And it also been verified here as well:
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/identity/juryduty.asp