Ahead of March's Southside state of Emergency Commissioner of Police Chester Williams confirmed that the cops would abandon fixed checkpoints in hotspot neighborhoods. It's a decision that was made in light of the fact that those static checkpoints seemed to be providing a safe haven for criminals. And as we moved into the nationwide state of emergency, checkpoints have gone mobile, literally. Yesterday Superintendent Alejandro Cowo told us how.
Supt. Alejandro Cowo, OC, CIB
"We have checkpoints in the two main entrances to the city. The one by Manattee Lookout, we have also crossing Haulover Bridge and we have at the four miles on the George Price Highway. There are also mobile static patrols meaning that they are patrolling any area and they just slowly come out of the vehicle and set up a checkpoint and they conduct a checkpoint there for maybe 20-25 minutes and then they move around the city. It does not have to be a stagnant checkpoint, they are always moving around within the city."
"All the stagnant checkpoints and static checkpoints all of them have visible cones to indicate that this is a police checkpoint in that area. I haven't seen where police officers are standing on the street corner stopping vehicles. I haven't seen any one of them, but I know that each mobile is equipped with three or four cones where the police officers stop at any junction and they place the cones and they stop to conduct their checkpoints there."
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