 an agency whose mission has shifted to crime prevention. Hello, I'm Sergeant Steve Warnicke with Denver Police News. District three in Denver Police, which spans the southeast corridor area from Platte River all the way to Yosemite and from Sixth Avenue all the way down to Bellevue, has had some great successes recently in preventing burglaries. Here to talk about that, Detective Bill Monahan and Sergeant Randy Royal. Guys, thanks for being here. Thanks for having us. Thanks for having us. You guys have had some successes lately. What are you doing differently that we haven't seen? Well, first of all, we're extremely proactive. We have an extremely proactive detective bureau. We don't do the traditional typing behind the desk and trying to solve cases in the office. What we do is we go out in the field. We contact citizens, we contact suspicious parties in the neighborhood, we drive down alleys, we put a lot of operational plans together in order to reduce burglary, and it's been pretty successful so far for us. Let's talk about a couple of the successes in particular. I mean, we had the Lowry area which was getting hit with burglaries. We've had the Broadway corridor. Let's talk about Lowry. What happened in that instance? We had a series of overnight burglaries to residences. We went out several times and did operations in plain clothes to saturate the area and try to locate suspects or a suspect. And we went out there and talked to citizens and people. And in one of the cases, the suspect got in a confrontation with the homeowner and left some physical evidence and were able to identify the suspect that way and get him arrested recently. Another instance where we've had a great deal of success, Broadway corridor. Broadway corridor has seen burglaries from in businesses, residential burglaries. What did you do there that's had an impact? We did an operation, I think it was just two weeks ago where we saturated the area with plain clothes detectives during the overnight hours. And we're out there talking to people gathering information. That's the key to doing police work is talking to people and obtaining information. And while we're out that night, a 911 call came in for a burglary in progress. There was a suspect who had entered into a home whether it was three young woman home. He did so by cutting the screen and forcefully opening a window. We were able to get to that location in a timely fashion and apprehend the suspect who was hiding in a bathroom when we arrived there. That was pretty successful. One thing with the Broadway corridor is they've had a lot of burglaries, both residential and business burglaries. So it's important that we let the citizens know we're out there trying to reduce burglaries at all hours. That operation Bill just talked about started at 10 o'clock at night and we're working 10 o'clock at night till probably noon the next day, trying to get burglaries. Let me ask you detective, Mount Hannah, is it tough to balance caseload? I mean, certainly you do have some desk work that you need to get done. So how do you balance being out and about and making contacts versus still getting the case work done? Is that tough on you? At times it gets difficult but you just have to be able to prioritize. And to all the people in our unit, if we have an active pattern of crimes in an area and we might have some other lower priority cases they might have to wait a couple of days. You have to prioritize if there's really active criminals targeting a certain area, you need to address that. And the best way to do it like Sergeant Ronald said is to get out of the office and talk to people and look for the suspects. Sarge detective, thanks for your time. Thank you. All right, it looks like you may be seeing in addition to uniformed police officers more detectives in your neighborhood. Thanks for watching Denver Police News. I'm Sergeant Warnacky. We'll see you next time.