Photos: ‘Picnic at the Precinct’ party in West Seattle

Besides meeting local police (that’s Southwest Precinct commander Capt. Steve Paulsen at right, above), there are dozens of other reasons to come on over to the Picnic at the Precinct street party before it wraps up at 4 – including a bouncy house for kids, live music/dancing, ice cream and hot dogs.

The party’s on SW Webster west of Delridge.

3:59 PM: It’s just wrapped up – but in the meantime, we’ve seen Mayor McGinn, Police Chief John Diaz, city tech boss Bill Schrier (a West Seattleite), the Southwest Precinct lieutenants who so often help us get information, and lots of cool people who stopped by our table to say hi. The mayor posed with West Seattle Blockwatch Captains Network honchos Deb Greer (left) and Karen Berge (right):

Here’s Lt. Alan Williams chatting with West Seattle Crime Prevention Council president Richard Miller (the council resumes meetings next month):

Someone you’ll also see at those meetings is Crime Prevention Coordinator Mark Solomon, who had lots of pamphlets and stickers to hand out today:

The city Department of Neighborhoods represented, too – that’s district coordinator Steve Louie at left in the next photo, with Community Police Team Officer Jon Kiehn:

P.S. In case you wondered – the precinct picnics around the city are presented by the nonprofit Seattle Police Foundation, which among other things also launched a campaign to save the budget-cut-threatened, West Seattle-based SPD Mounted Patrol Unit. Several of its horses visited, including Harvest – who posed with SPD Chief John Diaz:

And though this just might be the warmest day of the summer – the heat was on in the hot-dog “kitchen”:

Crime-fighting equipment was on display too – including the always-popular bomb robot.

3 Replies to "Photos: 'Picnic at the Precinct' party in West Seattle"

  • cool August 20, 2011 (10:02 pm)

    Good job SPD! We appreciate you!

  • A August 21, 2011 (8:31 am)

    I’m bummed that we missed it this year. We had a great time last year. Our son loved the bomb robots last year.

  • SJD August 22, 2011 (12:37 am)

    Thumbs up SPD.

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