Dive summary:
- Local police departments and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office trained 350 Waste Management drivers to be active in calling authorities when they witness crimes.
- Waste Management runs a program called Waste Watch where their workers are trained and expected to help out in neighborhoods when they see something out of the ordinary.
- All of the drivers were put through a day of training and passed a 20-question test to become certified.
From the article:
The training is part of Waste Management’s company-wide program called Waste Watch that operates much like neighborhood watches throughout the country.
“Because they’re in the neighborhoods twice a week, they know what belongs there,” said Sheriff Ric Bradshaw. “It’s all about getting people to report things that are suspicious.”
Bradshaw’s last proposal in the watch-thy-neighbor vein drew a bit of backlash recently. ...
