Friday, July 13, 2012
Have a question for a police officer? Ask it here.
If you have questions for the Prince William County Police Department, we'll pass them along to Officer Jonathan Perok and First Sgt. Kim Chinn, public information officers with the department. Questions can be asked anonymously. Submit your questions to us via e-mail at at woodbridge-va@patch.com, by posting a comment on this article, or by sending us a Tweet or a message on our Facebook page. Sign up for daily and weekly newsletters and breaking news alerts from Woodbridge Patch. Learn more here. Question: Why are people, supposedly homeless, allowed to panhandle at major intersections in Prince William County? This is a terrible safety concern. I can remember when the fire departments did this and could not believe they were allowed to…
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Have a question for Prince William County Police? Ask it here.
If you have questions for the Prince William County Police Department, we'll pass them along to Officer Jonathan Perok and First Sgt. Kim Chinn, public information officers with the department. Questions can be asked anonymously. Submit your questions to us via e-mail at lakeridge at patch.com, by posting a comment on this article, or by sending us a Tweet or a message on our Facebook page. ________ Question: Recently signs have been posted on Knightsbridge Road in front of the Westridge Elementary school that read “10 minute parking Mon – Fri." These do not appear to be the quality of most state signs, and they do not carry the tell-tale “Public Notice” on the back identifying the sign as genuine. Are these signs enforced by the PWC …
Friday, June 15, 2012
Have a question for Prince William County Police Department? Ask it here.
If you have questions for the Prince William County Police Department, we'll pass them along to Officer Jonathan Perok and First Sgt. Kim Chinn, public information officers with the department. Questions can be asked anonymously. Submit your questions to us via e-mail at laurenj at patch.com, by posting a comment on this article, or by sending us a Tweet or a message on our Facebook page. Question: For the working middle class, why doesn’t your "parking enforcement" branch have a one warning system? I am fairly new to this area, and commute into D.C. like many others. After getting back to my car, I noticed a parking violation on my windshield. I had a vanity plate instead of my front license plate and was issued a violation because of it…
Monday, June 11, 2012
Have a question for a police officer? Ask it here.
If you have questions for the Prince William County Police Department, we'll pass them along to Officer Jonathan Perok and First Sgt. Kim Chinn, public information officers with the department. Questions can be asked anonymously. Submit your questions to us via e-mail at laurenj at patch.com, by posting a comment on this article, or by sending us a Tweet or a message on our Facebook page. Question: Why can’t the police enforce federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) issues in the county? For example, disabled parking that is on a hill, making it impossible for disabled in wheel chairs to leave the vehicle safely. Regular parking spots that were changed to Disabled Parking spots but no lines were added to make the accessibility …
Friday, May 25, 2012
Have a question for Prince William County Police Department? Ask it here.
If you have questions for the Prince William County Police Department, we'll pass them along to Officer Jonathan Perok and First Sgt. Kim Chinn, public information officers with the department. Questions can be asked anonymously. Submit your questions to us via e-mail at laurenj at patch.com, by posting a comment on this article, or by sending us a Tweet or a message on our Facebook page. ____________ Question: Is there anything that can be done about high school kids parking on our street and using the path to the high school because they don’t want to pay to park? We have no less than a dozen cars on our street every morning. This happens about this time every year and it is crazy. Answer: Unfortunately if the development the students …
Friday, May 11, 2012
Have a question for Prince William County Police Department? Ask it here.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
If you have questions for the Prince William County police department, we'll pass them along to Officer Jonathan Perok and First Sgt. Kim Chinn, public information officers with the department. Questions can be asked anonymously. Submit your questions to us via e-mail at laurenj at patch.com, by posting a comment on this article, or by sending us a Tweet or a message on our Facebook page. ______ Question: Our main concern as parents is that as much as we watch our kids play, there are several drivers (who I would assume reside) in that street that still do not observe the speed limit. We do not have speed bumps and on many occasions, besides the fact that they are going too fast, they do not slow down at all. There was one incident when …
Friday, May 4, 2012
Your questions answered by Prince William County Public Information Officer Jonathan Perok.
If you have questions for the Prince William County police department, we'll pass them along to Officer Jonathan Perok and First Sgt. Kim Chinn, public information officers with the department. Questions can be asked anonymously. Submit your questions to us via e-mail at laurenj at patch.com, by posting a comment on this article, or by sending us a Tweet or a message on our Facebook page. Question: We have a major problem on Pickwick Lane off of Smoketown. We have multiple kids playing anything from baseball, soccer, football, hockey, and riding their bikes, go-carts, motorized cars, and sit down scooters at full force coming down the cul-de-sac. It's a dangerous situation, and one of these days one of them is going to get hurt, as we …
Friday, April 20, 2012
Your questions answered by Prince William County Public Information Officer Jonathan Perok.
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Friday, April 20, 2012
If you have questions for the Prince William County police department, we'll pass them along to Officer Jonathan Perok and First Sgt. Kim Chinn, public information officers with the department. Questions can be asked anonymously. Submit your questions to us via e-mail at laurenj at patch.com, by posting a comment on this article, or by sending us a Tweet or a message on our Facebook page. Question: Can children play in the street? I see kids playing ball, riding skateboards and bikes all the time. I thought skateboarders and bike riders had to follow the same rules of traffic? Skateboarders, laying down on their boards, are the most dangerous. Answer: To answer the first part of your question – according to county code section 13-408a, “…
Monday, April 9, 2012
Have a question for a Prince William County police officer? Ask it here.
This is our first edition of "Ask an Officer." If you have questions for the Prince William County police department, we'll pass them along to Officer Jonathan Perok and First Sgt. Kim Chinn, public information officers with the department. Questions can be asked anonymously. Submit your questions to us via e-mail at laurenj at patch.com, by posting a comment on this article, or by sending us a Tweet or a message on our Facebook page. This week's batch of questions was answered by Officer Jonathan Perok. 1.) What type of follow-up, if any, is done with crime victims? My home was robbed in Oct 2011 and I emailed the officer several times regarding the robbery and I never received a response, nothing since. Any suggestions? Perok: Please …
Michael Stephen
11:46 am on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Actually the ACLU (and other jurisdictions) have found that anti-panhandling laws are illegal, that they are unconstitutional (freedom of speech, right to assemble) and so any jurisdiction that practices the enforcement of such laws is itself in DIRECT violation of FEDERAL MANDATES and of the CONSTITUTION itself. While we may not LIKE panhandlers, this is AMERICA and the CONSTITUTIONS SATNDS. more ›