PORT ANGELES – Rich Sill has a brand-new junk car ordinance, and he can’t wait not to enforce it.
Sill, Clallam County’s code compliance officer, works by cooperation and collaboration when he can, seldom by confrontation and coercion.
The new, tougher junk vehicle law – which won’t take effect until July 1 – simply gives Sill “another tool in the toolbox,” in his words.
The entire array of legal strategies, he said, is called Community Oriented Policing.
COP, Sill told the Port Angeles Business Association on Tuesday, is proactive rather than reactive.
In traditional police patrolling, “you drive around on the beat and you wait for a call,” Sill told association members meeting in Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 DelGuzzi Drive.
Using COP, he said, officers “are looking for those [troublesome] environments and taking care of them ahead of time.”
The approach, he explained, helps law enforcers deal with trends, not just events.
