City of Rochester
News Release
(Monday, December 15, 2014) – The Rochester Police Department will hold two community meetings in the Central and Genesee Patrol Sections this week to discuss the Department’s new five-section patrol model and give residents an opportunity to meet the new Section Captains. Additionally, a new date has been set for the Clinton Section meeting, which had been postponed in November due to a police emergency.
These meetings are part of a series of community meetings that will be held in each new patrol section.
The meeting schedule is as follows (all meetings will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m.):
• Central Section: Wednesday, December 17, Public Safety Building auditorium, 185 Exchange Blvd.,
• Genesee Section: Thursday, December 18, Staybridge Hotel Castletown Room, 1000 Genesee Street.
• The new date and place for the Clinton Section meeting is: Wednesday, January 7, Northeast Neighborhood Service Center Community Room, 500 Norton Street, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm.
The new captains and their sections are:
• Captain Wilson Johnson, Clinton Section: Captain Johnson has 32 years of service, including three as Police Captain. He is currently assigned as a patrol captain in the East Division
• Captain Lloyd Cuyler, Goodman Section: Captain Cuyler has 27 years of service, including eight as a police captain. He is currently assigned as a patrol captain in the East Division.
• Captain Raymond Dearcop, Lake Section: Captain Dearcop has 20 years of service, including three as Police Captain. He is currently assigned as a patrol captain in the West Division.
• Captain Peter Leach, Central Section: Captain Leach has 30 years of service, including four as a police captain. He is currently assigned as the Downtown Detail Captain.
• Captain Tony McMullen, Genesee Section: Captain McMullen has 19 years of service, including three as police captain. He is currently assigned as Acting Commander for the West Division.
The RPD is scheduled to implement its new five-section patrol model in March of 2015. The five-section model will replace the two-division model that had been in place since 2004.
The sections are: Lake Section in Northwest; Genesee Section in the Southwest; Goodman Section in the Southeast and Clinton Section in the Northeast. Central Section will patrol Downtown and some of the adjacent neighborhoods.
Visit www.cityofrochester.gov/RPDreorganization to learn more about the plan and follow its progress.
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News Media: For information, contact Press Officer Jessica Alaimo at 428-7135.