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Crime Prevention Unit

The current Crime Prevention Unit was established in 1987. The unit (C.P.U.) consists of detectives, road patrol officers and a civilian support person. The unit handles vast array of duties.  If you live in an apartment complex, have attended National Night Out, reported suspicious drug related activity, or been a patron of a Saginaw Township business, you have more than likely had involvement with the Crime Prevention Unit without even knowing it.

D/Sergeant Chris Fredenburg supervises the unit and also handles the residential security programs, including Neighborhood Watch and Crime Free Multi Housing.

CPU Detectives investigate property crimes, obtain and execute warrants, conduct covert surveillance of criminal suspects and in areas of increased criminal activity.

Officers Andy Carlson & Jeff Fenton are our School Resource Officers. Officer Carlson works with the high schools in Saginaw Township and Officer Fenton works at White Pine Middle School where they help build a positive relationship between young adults and the police department. Officer Carlson lectures in law classes about search and seizure laws and investigates any crimes that occur at the schools.

Crime Prevention Officers Fredenburg, Nothelfer and Schroeder provide community policing services to area schools, apartment complexes, business districts, and neighborhoods.

CPU wins award

The Crime Prevention Association of Michigan has named the Saginaw Township Police Department’s Crime Prevention Unit the best of its kind in the state for 2009.


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