Virtual town hall with Cape Coral police chief Thursday night

On Thursday night, you will have the chance to talk to Cape Coral’s police chief about your safety.

Just like you can get up-to-the-minute updates with school buses in Collier County or when your food order is going to be delivered, you can do the same with police activity in your community in Cape Coral using myneighborhoodupdate.net. Type that into your browser and a map of Cape Coral pops up. Orange pins set on specific properties represent issues like alarms, thefts or trespassing. Violent activity like shootings or robberies are in pink and traffic issues are in yellow.

“Cops are proactive human beings, we want to get out there and prevent things from happening before they do, notice the trends and, say, vehicle burglaries and go proactively police—hide out in that area, catch these guys in the act,” said Master Cpl. Philip Mullen with the Cape Coral Police Department. “There shouldn’t be a gap to bridge is our viewpoint on it; we want to be connected with our citizens all the time, we want them to get to meet us, whether it be Coffee with a Cop, these town hall meetings… it being virtual, unfortunately, a symptom of the COVID-19. And then, hopefully, that’ll change in the future where we can do these in person. I know the chief would rather do these in person than virtually.”

The virtual town hall is Thursday night at 7 p.m., hosted by CCPD police chief Anthony Sizemore. CCPD is encouraging your questions and they want them early.  You can submit them via social media, on their website or during the Facebook Live event.