My Friendly Exchange of E-mail Letters in March 2022 With Cottonwood Heights (UT) Police Chief Paul Brenneman:

 I was reminded today of the friendly exchange of e-mail letters I had with Cottonwood Heights (UT) Police Chief Paul Brenneman during a multi-month period of 2022 when I lived alone inside  a fully locked  solo-occupancy quadraplex rental apartment unit at 6819 South 1300 East in Cottonwood Heights:

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From: "John McMillan" <mcmillanj@att.net>

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Sent: Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 1:09 PM

Subject: Re: [EXT:]3-29-22 re: crime prevention officers of Utah

March 29, 2022

Dear Cottonwood Heights (UT) Assistant Police Chief Brenneman,

Thank you for your prompt reply note (below) to me on this. 

I am very impressed by the respectful style that city officials here in Cottonwood Heights convey in responding to reports from private citizens and members of the general public such as myself.

If any job vacancy ever develops for a part-time or full-time crime-prevention-research position of employment with the City of Cottonwood Heights, I would welcome the opportunity to apply for that position.

I am a former full-time employee in Austin, Texas, for the Texas Department of Public Safety, and I do not have any criminal-conviction record. I am diligently law-abiding and honest and conscientious. I have a keen interest in helping to prevent and deter crime here in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. I have a professional newspaper-reporting background and a Master's Degree in Journalism that would serve me well in pursuing factual research and writing crime-prevention-theme and crime-deterrence-theme reports for the City of Cottonwood Heights.

One such proposed new report for our friendly city could provide a helpful and easy-to-read list for the general public of each of the municipal ordinances of Cottonwood Heights, county ordinances of Salt Lake County, or state laws of Utah that new residents of or visitors to this city and Utah, respectively, are the most likely to violate because they are either not aware of or do not understand that ordinance or state law.

I recently had a friendly in-person conversation with a female staff member for the Sandy (UT) Police Department inside Sandy Police headquarters who stated to me that she likes the idea of their municipal law-enforcement agency compiling and offering a fact sheet which cites several or more state laws and possibly local-government laws here that visitors and new residents in Sandy might be the most likely to violate because of their being unaware of those laws.

Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan, the youngest son of Murray (UT) native and University of Utah alumnus and longtime University of Texas at Austin Botany professor and botanical researcher Dr. Calvin McMillan. Father was a member of and elder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  during his years as a Utahn.

My date of birth: 4-27-1957. My place of birth: Lincoln, Nebraska.

My solo-occupancy fully-locked rental-apartment-unit home address ever since February 24, 2022:

6819 South 1300 East, Cottonwood Heights, UT 84121.

Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

Home phone: (801) 942-2122.

John Kevin McMillan

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On Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 07:24:01 AM CDT, Paul Brenneman <pbrenneman@ch.utah.gov> wrote:

Mr. McMillian,

I am currently away from the office. I would be happy to have a conversation and answer your questions when I return on Friday. I will reach out then.

Regards,

Paul Brenneman

Sent from my iPhone

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On Mar 29, 2022, at 00:28, John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> wrote:

March 29, 2022

Dear Utah DPS Public Information Official Cameron Roden,

Thank you again for your very recent friendly reply letters to me in regard to a public-safety and law-enforcement issue I had cited to you. As you may recall, I had asked you whether it is legal in Utah for a motorist to drive his motor vehicle with a pet dog on that motorist's lap.

Does your state law-enforcement agency currently employ a full-time or part-time certified peace officer or other staff member who primarily or exclusively promotes crime prevention and crime deterrence here in Utah?

Also, do you know of any other state agency in Utah or any local law-enforcement agency in Utah that currently employs a part-time or full-time crime-prevention (or crime-deterrence) officer or staff member?

I was reminded to pose these questions to you after I spoke on the telephone this Monday morning, March 28, with a polite female support-staff supervisor for the Cottonwood Heights (UT) Police Department who stated her name as "Candy". 

Candy stated to me that she herself is not aware of any specially designated officer for that municipal law-enforcement agency whose duties primarily or exclusively are focused on crime prevention. "They (each of the officers of the Cottonwood Heights Police Department) all do the crime prevention...," Candy added.

Candy also stated to me at about 10:41 a.m. Mountain Time this Monday, March 28, that I myself would need to speak with her department's Assistant Police Chief, Paul Brenneman, for authoritative information in regard to whether there are any officially designated crime-prevention officers currently employed by that municipal law-enforcement agency in Salt Lake County, Utah.

Candy then forwarded my phone call to the telephone-service extension for Assistant Chief Brenneman. I then responded to a recorded-message voice-mail greeting from himself by leaving a polite voice mail message requesting a return phone call from Assistant Chief Brenneman on the above-cited subject.

Utah DPS Official Roden, I hope to hear from you soon about this important crime-deterrence-related issue currently facing numerous law-enforcement agencies in Utah.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

former Texas DPS full-time employee and current Salt Lake County resident John Kevin McMillan. My date of birth: 4-27-1957. My place of birth: Lincoln, Nebraska.

My current home address: 6819 South 1300 East, Cottonwood Heights, UT 84121.

My home phone: (801) 942-2122.

My cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

John Kevin McMillan