VIDEO: NIPAS at barricaded subject incident with Rand Road closure on Rand Road near Geneva Drive.
Palatine police responded about 10:30 AM Tuesday responded to a report of a man with a gun, 1300 North Geneva Drive Palatine, IL. Palatine police report criminal charges are expected against a 31-year-old man who barricaded himself, with a handgun, inside an apartment on the 1300 block of North Geneva Drive near Rand Road just west of Route 53 Tuesday.
A woman called 9-1-1 about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday and told the Northwest Central Dispatch Systems dispatcher she had escaped from the apartment after being beaten by her boyfriend, who also had a gun, according to a Palatine Police Department news release. When police arrived, the man barricaded himself inside the apartment.
During negotiation with the man, police shut down Rand Road in both directions near the Windsor Court Condominium complex. The closure was a precaution for passing motorists that could otherwise be hit if stray gunfire occurred during the incident.
Palatine police negotiated with the man for more than three hours, then called the Northern Illinois Police Alarm System (NIPAS) for assistance. Shortly after a large number of police members from NIPAS special teams arrived, the man surrendered without incident.
Police recovered a loaded, .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun from the scene, according to Palatine police.
Police have not released the identity of the man, but reported he is a felon who has previously been deported.
The incident caused some delays in afternoon school bus arrivals in the area.
Rand Road was re-opened at 2:45 p.m. Westbound traffic was forced off at the frontage road just west of Route 53 and was backed up to about Hintz Road.
IMPORTANT ALERT …
Cardinal Note: As of June 5, 2013 — up to and including the date of this article — police incidents related to the above police agency are not reported in real time or within a prompt time period. Police protecting their realm of investigation and police activity, have chosen to use secret military-grade encrypted radios to withhold their police communications, which were previously open to the public and news media via monitoring of public safety scanning radios — with no known negative results locally.
The delayed knowledge or entirely blacked out knowledge resulting from encrypted police communications may protect certain police operations and investigations, but it also puts the public at risk in situations such as when armed and dangerous offenders are at large and when other similar situations occur, such as when desperate offenders of property crimes are eluding police. In other cases, the delayed or blacked out information inhibits or prohibits the possibility of the public providing early witness accounts before a criminal trail goes cold. Citizens are much more likely to recognize or recall suspicious or criminal activity if they are aware of the criminal incident within minutes or hours of its occurrence. The most serious incident involving dire results would be a trail that is allowed to go cold in the case of child abduction.
The lack of real time information from public police dispatch also weakens an effective neighborhood watch program mostly working to prevent property loss, but also working to prevent possible violent crimes.
Lack of real time information from police dispatch also delays public awareness or eliminates public awareness of general hazards and traffic or other situations in every day living in an otherwise economically thriving community.
Police have alternate ways to transmit tactical, operational or investigative information, while still keeping their main public dispatch channels open for the best balance of public safety and police safety.
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