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Juvenile Aid Unit

The Juvenile Aid Unit is directly supervised by Sergeant John Catone and is comprised of Investigators, a DARE Officer, and a School Resource Investigator. The JAU has primary responsibility for:

	Coordinating investigations, arrests and/or diversions involving juvenile suspects under sixteen years of age;
	Collecting, maintaining and disseminating information on juvenile records;
	Developing programs to prevent and control juvenile delinquency;
	Assisting officers from other divisions or units with juvenile arrests or diversions;
	Maintaining a liaison with Family Court and other social agencies and coordination of procedural changes that affect the department's juvenile related activities;
	Coordinating missing child investigations of persons less than sixteen years of age;
	Assisting officers of other divisions or units in the investigation of any crime involving a child victim (less than sixteen years old;
	Investigation of all child abuse or neglect cases within the city;
	Registration and maintenance of the bicycle registration file and bicycle locker of the department; and
	Maintaining a liaison with the Saratoga Springs City School District, its student population, and associated intra agency and interagency coordination through the School Resource Officer Program.

The Juvenile Aid Unit Investigators trained in the multi-disciplinary team approach to investigating instances of suspected child physical abuse and/or sexual abuse. An Investigator is also assigned as the School Resource Officer at the Senior High School campus, and a uniformed Police Officer is assigned in JAU to teach DARE to all of the Saratoga Springs School District’s 5^th graders.

The Juvenile Aid Unit is responsible for numerous educational presentations to the public. Presentations range from robbery responses for the public to drug and violence prevention. The unit also does child ID's and fingerprinting under the auspices of Operation Safe Child at numerous locations throughout the year in collaboration with the Saratoga County District Attorney and the Saratoga Springs City School District.

Residents wishing to register their privately owned bicycles may do so by coming to the Juvenile Aid Unit, located within the Police Department at 5 Lake Avenue between 3:00pm and 5:00pm any week day. Registering your bike will assist this department in recovery should it be stolen. There is no charge for this service. Found bicycles that are unclaimed are sold at public auction each spring. The auction location is announced prior to the auction in The Saratogian Newspaper.

Letter from a citizen

On June 8th, the police department received this letter from two aspiring police officer candidates requesting a visit with the police department. Although the department does not normally take members of the public on rides in department vehicles, we often provide scheduled tours of the department by school children and various youth organizations within our community. On June 11th, Aaron and Aiden LeClair visited with Investigator James Bell of the Juvenile Aid Unit, and were treated to a personally guided tour of the police department and one of our marked patrol vehicles. Following the tour, each received a complimentary Junior Officer badge from Investigator Bell.

Group tours for youths can be scheduled by calling Police HQ at 584-1800 Monday through Friday during business hours. Please ask to speak with a member of the Juvenile Aid Unit. Tours may also be scheduled by eMail through Sergeant John Catone at jcatone@saratogapolice.org

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