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Cybercrime Alert - Valentines Day Computer Virus

Valentines Day is coming within two weeks. The Tulsa Police Department Cybercrime Unit would like to alert the Businesses and Citizens of Tulsa to a Valentines Day Email Virus that is being sent out by Cybercrime Criminals.

The method of spreading the virus is by way of a “Greeting Card sent for Valentines Day” to the targeted user. The email message includes a link to download the card. However, if the user clicks the link and accepts the subsequent file download they will actually be letting the “Virus Worm” into their computer.

These malicious files have Valentines Day related romantic names such as “youanme.exe”, “onlyyou.exe”, and “meandyou.exe”. Once it has infected the computer, the worm uses the affected users email to send out spam. To do this, it collects all the email addresses stored on the user’s computer, and sends them an email like the one above in order to trick the other users into downloading the malware strain.

The Tulsa Police Department Cybercrime Unit recommends the following:
1. Do not open any emails that you do not personally recognize the sender.
2. Even if you do recognize the user, be very leery of opening attachments around Valentines Day.
3. Always keep your virus software updated and make sure it runs a scan on a regular basis of your entire computer.
4. Keep your Spyware Software updated and make sure it runs a scan on a regular basis of your entire computer.
5. If you suspect you have become a victim of this scam, immediately update your virus and Spyware software and run a complete scan.

Coming Up On TPD Radio

 

Join Tulsa Police Radio as we discuss how homicides are investigated and our special guest will be a Cold Case Homicide Investigator. Captain Paul Fields will join us to discuss his recent 11 week journey at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. As usual, we will be taking your calls and our regular segments of the weekly most wanted and the hero of the week is definite must hear.

Listen to TPD Radio:  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Tulsa-Police

Bank Robbery Suspect Photos Released

 

On 01-16-2009 at 5:03 p.m., the First Fidelity Bank located at 8120 S. Yale Avenue was robbed by two armed white males. Robbery Detectives have released additional photos that they believe could help solve this case.    

The additional photos show suspect #2's white shoes and the design. The suspect's vehicle is a black Honda Accord, with tinted windows, possibly a 2005.  The chrome around the windows is unique. A brown shoe with tan stripes was left in the bank by the suspects. Detectives believe that the shoe fell out of one of the duffle bags carried by the suspects.  Detectives believe that someone may recognize these items.

Tulsa Police Radio

The Tulsa Police Department is tapping into a new audience with talk radio on the web.

Every other week officers host Tulsa Police Radio highlighting crime concerns and information about the Tulsa Police Department.

Fox 23’s Abbie Alford sat in on the chat today to find out how it’s a useful tool for the community and for police.

The Tulsa Police Blog, soon surveillance video will be posted on YouTube and now the TPD can be found over the airwaves online.

Through blogtalkradio.com, the Tulsa Police Radio show is a 30-minute radio segment on the web that can be listened to anywhere in the nation.

Police say when there’s a crisis people can’t always ask and get the answers so they hope the radio show will help you better understand crime and the police in Tulsa.

"For those of you that are just joining us we do see some people in the chat room we will open your phone calls," says Captain Travis Yates.

  Callers are dialing in online and on the frequency wanting to know about the topic of discussion: How to become a Tulsa Police Officer.

"Maybe I'm a guy or a female or someone who is married and has kids and I am kind of thinking may be I shouldn't be a police officer?" says Officer Leland Ashley.

Tulsa police recruiter Officer Jesse Guardiola is on the air with the answers.

"After your three years of duty then you can start putting in for your specialty units, the detective division that mirror the hours that you and your wife are looking for," says Guardiola.

Like any talk show the hosts or in this case the officers look to each other for feedback and of course there’s the friendly banter.

"We are really wanting to show people that police are more than just a badge in uniform. They are real people, they are dads, moms," says Yates.

Captain Yates says the show is an informal environment that gets answers people want to know.

"It's just very unique to be able to call up a police officer and talk to him about any subject," says Yates.

People can ask the topic of discussion or recent crime.

"We are well ahead of any pace we've ever seen with bank robbers in here in 2009," says Yates.

Each episode Captain Yates, an officer and a guest host will highlight Hero Of The Week, Most Wanted and information about Crime Stoppers.

Tulsa police say a generation the Tulsa Police Department hopes they can tap for help in solving crime.

"Please join us back in two weeks February 5th at 2:00. Thank you very much,” says Yates.

Tulsa Police Radio launched two weeks ago. The topics officers have covered have been traffic safety during winter conditions and how to join the Tulsa Police Department.

The bi-weekly segment can be found by clicking on the “TPD Radio Show” or Tulsa Police Department” link located under “Related Links” on the right side of this page.

People can listen to the show as well on iTunes.

 

Courtesy:  Fox23.com

Thursday Bank Robbery

On 01-22-2009 the Bank of America branch at 5101 South Sheridan Road was robbed by a lone White/Male suspect.  The suspect entered the bank via the north doors at 0909 hours and presented a demand note to the teller.  The note states the suspect has a gun and demanded money.  The teller complied with the suspect's demand and the supect left out the north door.  The money was last seen in a white bag.

The suspect is described as a White/Male in his late thirties to early forties, 507 160-170 pounds wearing wire rim glasses and a black jacket with lighter colored dungaree type pants.  The suspect was seen getting into a dark green Plymouth Voyager type van, not older than three to five years old.  The van is described as having Missouri license plates.

This is the seventh financial institute robbery in 2009.  Anyone with information on the whereabouts of this susepct is asked to call the Robbery Hotline at 918-527-0085 or for a cash reward they may call Crime Stoppers and 596-COPS.

 

Tulsa Police Radio #2

Join us today at 2 p.m. for our live radio show, TPD Radio.  Join your hosts, Tulsa Police Captain Travis Yates and Officer Leland Ashley as they bring on a recruiter to discuss the process of becoming a Tulsa Police Officer. 

We will be taking your calls at: (646) 929-1755 and the chat room will be open.  We look forward to seeing you.

Councilors' goals prioritized

Among the ideas are hiring more police officers and putting live video of council meetings online.
 
By BRIAN BARBER World Staff Writer

Tulsa's City Council has drafted a list of its policy and budget priorities for the next fiscal year that includes hiring more police officers, enforcing code violations more quickly and adding streaming video of meetings on the city's Web site.

Council Policy Administrator Jack Blair surveyed each of the nine councilors about their priorities in nine categories: public safety, economic vitality, citizen engagement, environment, human investment, neighborhood vitality, recreation and culture, transportation and organizational processes.

Then the priorities that were submitted were ranked based on which had the broadest council support.

"It's much like a legislative agenda," Blair said.

In the area of public safety — named the councilors' most-pressing category — the goals include fully implementing the CompStat crime mapping and resource allocation program, hiring more police officers, and implementing an electronic ticketing system.

For economic vitality, the top goal cited was recovering a half-cent of the state sales tax collected within the city's borders to use for Tulsa purposes.

Under citizen engagement, councilors want to integrate the live meeting broadcasts into the city's Web site and also archive them to be viewed later.

In the environment category, councilors would like to see Tulsa develop a uniform trash collection and recycling program. The city now offers different levels of service in different areas.

The top priority cited for human investment was securing a plan and long-term funding for indigent care in Tulsa, particularly at the Oklahoma State University Medical Center.

In the category of neighborhood vitality, councilors highlighted the need to increase code enforcement through a more proactive neighborhood inspections effort and promote infill residential development.

For recreation and culture, councilors want a comprehensive parks system plan pursued so that a vision that could be a reality is developed.

The council also listed the need to market actively the Port of Catoosa as an alternative to more energy intensive modes of transportation and the desire to make Tulsa's public transit system more effective.

To improve organizational processes, councilors want to fund an automated time and attendance system for the city's employees.

By identifying their policy and budget priorities, councilors are essentially informing Mayor Kathy Taylor of what they want the city to pursue and achieve during the next fiscal year, which begins July 1.

Taylor must submit a budget to the council by May 1 for review, revisions and approval before that date.

Brian Barber 581-8322
brian.barber@tulsaworld.com

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20090115_11_A9_Tulsas68683

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Court Seeks End to Black Officers' Suit

By DAVID HARPER, Tulsa World Staff Writer

A federal court is prepared to end its supervision over a 2003 consent decree that resolved a racial- discrimination lawsuit by black officers against the city of Tulsa and soon close the 15-year-old case, a judge wrote in an order issued Friday.

U.S. District Judge Terence Kern referred any matters that are still outstanding to U.S. Chief District Judge Claire Eagan for an eventual final resolution.

The case was filed in January 1994 by then-Officer Roy Johnson, who alleged that the Tulsa Police Department discriminated against him and the other black officers in its ranks.

The suit was made a class action in 1998, opening it up to all of Tulsa's current and former black police officers if they didn't choose to opt out.

Sven Erik Holmes, who was then a federal judge, approved a consent decree in the case in 2003.

The agreement allowed the city to ask the court to terminate the agreement on its fifth anniversary if the city showed that it had "substantially complied" with the settlement of the lawsuit for two years.

Attorney Joel Wohlgemuth, who has represented the city in the case, said Friday that other than a few remaining disputed issues, Tulsa has completed what it was required to do under the consent decree.

He said Kern's order is a "very constructive step" toward wrapping up the case.

Plaintiffs' attorney Louis Bullock would not say whether he thinks the city has done a good job fulfilling its obligations under the decree.

Still, he said he is pleased with Kern's order and said it is a "logical step" in the case.

Neither side had asked Kern to issue such an order, but neither Wohlgemuth nor Bullock was surprised that the judge did so.

"I'm really pleased that the court has initiated this process," Wohlgemuth said.

Bullock wouldn't discuss what issues still must be resolved.

However, Kern's order refers to a document filed in May that dealt, in part, with an officer who thought he deserved to be in Homicide Squad and also with department practice regarding the posting of specialty assignments.

Wohlgemuth said the objections raised by the plaintiffs since the decree was implemented typically have dealt with individual officers' complaints, as opposed to broader systemic allegations.

The city has filed 16 reports through the years documenting its progress in implementing the decree. Those reports have been followed by an independent auditor's generally favorable written evaluations of those steps.

In the May pleading, Bullock claimed that the auditor "has never conducted any meaningful investigation or analysis of whether specialty assignments are, in fact, made on the basis of merit and fitness."

Bullock also claimed in the same pleading that the Dispute Avoidance and Resolution Committee created by the 2003 settlement had "simply abandoned its duties under the decree."

There was no word by the close of business Friday as to when a settlement conference before Eagan might be held.

In federal civil cases, a judge presiding over a case does not handle such behind-closed-doors conferences so as to avoid hearing compromising details that could influence a judicial decision that may be needed if the case is not settled.

Source: Court seeks end to black officers' suit

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