2023/06/14 Council Agenda Packet

Stay Out of Drug Areas Declaration of Sergeant Chris Bennett June 2023 I, Chris Bennett, certify or declare under the penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Washington that the following is true and correct: I am a Sergeant with the Everett Police Department. My current assignment is Sergeant of the Anti - Crime Team (ACT). ACT focuses on problem locations in the city with the goal of reducing crime, including narcotics related crimes, proactively. I have been a commissioned police officer since 2006. In my time with the Everett Police Department I have been involved in uniform and undercover proactive narcotics investigations. I have spent my career working patrol and spent roughly three and a half years working in ACT as an officer. I have been a Master Police Officer responsible for training new officers and was promoted to Sergeant in October of 2016. I began supervising the Anti -Crime Team in the spring of 2021. I have made or been involved in hundreds of narcotics arrests in the City of Everett, including Stay out of Drug Areas ("SODA") Order violations. I have attended numerous hours of training related to narcotics investigations. In preparing this document I consulted with Ofc A. Kravchun, Ofc O. Kravchun, Ofc M. McCourt and Officer B. Hoelzel; all of whom are current ACT officers. I know they have extensive knowledge of narcotics activity throughout the city. I also had the Everett Police Department Crime Analysis Unit evaluate the drug arrest and complaints of drug activity for a two-year time frame (Jan. 2021— Dec. 2022). I included the following maps that display drug related incidents and arrests as a reference, separated by year. 1