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Curb identity theft, fraud at free shred day

Ardenwald-Johnson Creek NDA Webmaster — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:23:06 +0000

Press release from Milwaukie Police Department:

The Milwaukie Police Department will offer a FREE document shred event on Saturday, June 12, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Citizens are invited to drop off personal documents, statements, and mail at the Public Safety Building at 3200 SE Harrison Street, Milwaukie, Oregon.

Milwaukie Police Cadets will assist citizens with the safe disposal of documents in the parking lot of the Public Safety Building. The shredder truck is being provided by Iron Mountain Inc.

The free shred day event is being offered by the Milwaukie Police Department as part of a crime-prevention effort to reduce identity theft, fraud and related crimes.

(Photo: Milwaukie Police Department)

Dispose your prescription drugs at disposal event (not flush it down the toilet)

Ardenwald-Johnson Creek NDA Webmaster — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:43:33 +0000

The Milwaukie Police Department, in partnership with Providence Milwaukie Hospital and their Community Health in Motion Program, will host a prescription drug turn-in day.

Designed to raise awareness of the abuse of prescription drugs, and to keep potentially dangerous drugs out of landfills and waterways, this event allow citizens to anonymously drop off unneeded or expired prescription drugs for safe disposal.

The event will be held Saturday, April 10, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Milwaukie Public Safety Building, 3200 SE Harrison Street, in Milwaukie.

Subscribe to CodeRed for emergency notifications

Ardenwald-Johnson Creek NDA Webmaster — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:22:43 +0000

If you have not subscribed to CodeRED, Milwaukie’s telephone-based emergency notification system, you may want to add your landline and cellular phone number to the list.

If you already subscribe to CodeRED and your phone number changed before June 2009, you will need to update your phone number in the system.

The automated messaging system will call subscribers to alert any emergency situation present in the area.

Milwaukie Police Department activated CodeRED on Jan. 15th when a shooting suspect was at large in the Island Station Neighborhood.

CodeRED was activated back in June 2007, instructing Ardenwald-Johnson Creek NDA residents to stay indoors and close all windows after ammonia leaked from a nearby cold storage facility.

The CodeRED system is for emergency communications only and will appear as “9999119999″ on the subscriber’s CallerID.

Visit Milwaukie’s CodeRED website for more information and to subscribe. Residents without internet service can call the Milwaukie Police Department at 503-786-7406 during its business hours.

City of Portland residents can visit PublicAlerts.org for emergency communications.