Residents of Ripon’s Area Two – the area north of Highway 99 and east of North Ripon Road – will get the chance on Wednesday night to find out from the Ripon Police Department exactly what public safety issues are going on in their neighborhoods.

At 7 p.m. inside of the Emergency Operations Center at the Ripon Police Department – located at 259 N. Wilma Avenue – the community will be welcome to come discuss public safety in each of the city’s four “areas of responsibility” that break the city up into four sections.

While Area Two will be the primary focus of the meeting, residents from the other three sections – Area 1, which covers the area north of Highway 99 and west of N. Ripon Road, Area 3, that covers the area south of Highway 99 and west of Vera Avenue, and Area 4, which covers the area east of Highway 99 and south of Vera Avenue – are welcome to participate to learn about public safety issues from throughout the community.

The AOR system used by the Ripon Police Department allows the agency to cover the community effectively by assigning officers to the different areas for their patrol beats. By sharing Google maps of the community that show a variety of crimes as they occur, the agency can help inform the public about the clustering of certain crimes so that residents of the individual areas can remain vigilant and protect themselves from becoming victims.

Ripon residents can visit the Ripon Police Department’s website at www.riponpd.org to find out the officers that are assigned to their area and the sergeants that oversee each of the officer teams.

Wednesday’s event will be the second of four that the department has planned for the community – one for each area – over the course of 2022.

For additional information about the event, visit the Ripon Police Department’s website or call 209.599.2102.

To contact reporter Jason Campbell email jcampbell@mantecabulletin.com or call 209.249.3544.