Since UCSF police took several steps to reduce burglaries in parking garages on the Parnassus campus, no incidents have occurred since April 15, according to UCSF Police Chief Pamela Roskowski.
In a memo dated April 27 to the campus community, Roskowski reported that since March 14, 36 auto burglaries have occurred in the Millberry Union parking lot and 7 have occurred in the Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) employee lot. Of the auto burglaries occurring in the Millberry parking lot, 44 percent, or 16, occurred between midnight on March 13 to 4 a.m. on March 14. Most victims had property visible from the exterior of the vehicle. Thieves entered by breaking a window or cutting through a convertible soft-top roof.
The crimes have occurred on every day of the week and every level of the Millberry Union garage with the greatest number occurring between noon Saturday to 1 a.m. on Sunday mornings and on E and F levels of the Millberry Union garage and D level of the ACC garage.
Importantly, no auto burglary incidents have been reported or detected since April 15 and no assault, robbery or other personal crimes have been reported in this location.
While UCSF police are unaware of any assaults or robberies in the Parnassus parking garages, any UCSF employee who desires an escort to their vehicle may make a request by calling the UCSF Police Emergency Communications Center at 476-1414 or Medical Center Security and they will be escorted to their vehicle. The Police Department saturation patrols will continue in the immediate-term.
Police action to the crime trend includes:
- • Distributing crime alert bulletins to the UCSF community and posting large
fluorescent green poster-sized safety awareness signs around the garages and
lobbies;
- • Alerting San Francisco police, UCSF Medical Center Security and Campus
Security to the incidents; and
- • Assigning both uniformed and plainclothes police patrols and special enforcement
details during the problem time periods.
UCSF police detectives have actively pursed all investigative leads and have worked closely with the San Francisco Police Park District patrol station, Auto Burglary Detail, Fencing Detail and Crime Scene Investigations Unit since this is part of a larger crime problem.
These police patrol and investigative efforts have yielded five arrests and detention of three suspicious persons. One stolen vehicle has been recovered and miscellaneous stolen property has been recovered. Investigators have tentatively identified two primary suspects and one individual was discovered to be living in a small hidden nook of the F Level MU parking garage. The saturation patrols and investigation will continue during the coming weeks as investigators continue their work.
Links:
UCSF Police
