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1972-05-17 Iowa City Press-Citizen Article: ""Highway Patrol Learns Lesson in 'Prevention'"" Page 2

"Highway Patrol Learns Lesson in 'Prevention' cont. 

P-C 5/17/72 p.2 (of 2)

Patrol 
From Page 1A

never attacked an officer individually before and they didn't do it last week."
He said he was able to carry on brief discussions with some of the young people."I asked them, 'how do you correlate the peace and love that you say are your aims with all this destruction of privately owned property?'"
Demonstrators smashed windows in at least 39 Iowa City business places May 4. 
The Highway Patrol colonel said he was very pleased with the outcome of an experiment in cooperative law enforcement that was conducted because of the demonstrations.
Robert Holetz, an assistant to Public Safety Commissioner Michael Sellers, explained that lawmen from the Iowa City police department, the nearby Coralville police, Johnson county sheriff's deputies, University of Iowa security officers and the patrol set up a command center two months ago to cope with the possibility of spring demonstrations. 
He said officials of those governmental units had signed a formal agreement now on file with the secretary of state that established an Emergency Operations Board. 
"If the governor assigns Department of Public Safety personnel to Iowa City in large numbers," Holetz said "the Public Safety Commissioner or his designee (Miller) is in charge of law enforcement."
Holetz pointed out the arrangement in effect last week marked the first time the patrol was in complete command of officers from many different agencies. 
The patrol assigned 200 officers - half the state trooper complement- to Iowa City during the demonstrations. And the move will prove costly, in an administrative sense. 
The demonstrations "will screw up our operations for quite some time," Miller said. "It's going to take us at least one month to get untangled."
He explained many of the officers missed days off and worked long hours. Miller noted that no overtime is paid but it will be at least one month before the patrolmen are able to use up the days off to which they're entitled and schedules return to normal.

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"Highway Patrol Learns Lesson in 'Prevention' cont. P-C 5/17/72 p.2 (of 2) Patrol From Page 1A never attacked an officer individually before and they didn't do it last week." He said he was able to carry on brief discussions with some of the young people."I asked them, 'how do you correlate the peace and love that you say are your aims with all this destruction of privately owned property?'" Demonstrators smashed windows in at least 39 Iowa City business places May 4. The Highway Patrol colonel said he was very pleased with the outcome of an experiment in cooperative law enforcement that was conducted because of the demonstrations. Robert Holetz, an assistant to Public Safety Commissioner Michael Sellers, explained that lawmen from the Iowa City police department, the nearby Coralville police, Johnson county sheriff's deputies, University of Iowa security officers and the patrol set up a command center two months ago to cope with the possibility of spring demonstrations. He said officials of those governmental units had signed a formal agreement now on file with the secretary of state that established an Emergency Operations Board. "If the governor assigns Department of Public Safety personnel to Iowa City in large numbers," Holetz said "the Public Safety Commissioner or his designee (Miller) is in charge of law enforcement." Holetz pointed out the arrangement in effect last week marked the first time the patrol was in complete command of officers from many different agencies. The patrol assigned 200 officers - half the state trooper complement- to Iowa City during the demonstrations. And the move will prove costly, in an administrative sense. The demonstrations "will screw up our operations for quite some time," Miller said. "It's going to take us at least one month to get untangled." He explained many of the officers missed days off and worked long hours. Miller noted that no overtime is paid but it will be at least one month before the patrolmen are able to use up the days off to which they're entitled and schedules return to normal.