Township presentation of annual police report

By Dana Cassdei

Throughout 2025 the Bloomfield Township police department saw increases in many areas – new hires, community involvement, calls for service and certain types of crime – and police chief James Gallagher discussed all of the details at the board of trustees meeting on Monday, July 13.

Within the 2025 annual report, Gallagher went over the data about the three different types of crimes they keep track of. Part A crimes are the most serious offenses such as robberies, stalking, assault, and fraud and ID theft. And while in the previous year there was a decrease in this type of crime, the number of Part A crimes went up in 2025, totaling just 790 crimes for the year with 236 instances of fraud ID/theft. There were also 101 cases of retail fraud and almost 100 of larceny.

“I do hope the numbers in A crimes trends back down next year, “ he said. 

Increases also occurred with Part B and Part C crimes too, with the former totaling 283 crimes in 2025. Part B crimes are typically misdemeanors that carry a penalty of less than one year in prison, and range from a hit and run accident to liquor law violations and driving while under the influence. 

Part C crimes are very often calls for service (CFS), a record of police service or activity, and range from a phone call into dispatch requesting police assistance or a police officer affecting a traffic stop, to when an alarm company calls to report an alarm has been tripped within Bloomfield Township. 

Crashes increased in both the total number of crashes for the year and a rise in injury causing crashes, at 14.4 percent and 30.1 percent, respectively. 

The police department expects to have a fully staffed traffic unit, which was recently reinstated, by this fall. 

In total, Bloomfield Township police responded to 27,067 calls for service, an 8.7 percent increase from 2024’s total of 24,905 calls. There were 999 arrests made from those calls and 3,099 traffic stops included in the CFS numbers. 

“I wish I could tell you what the increase was from or why. Some of it is because we have more proactive policing going on with our traffic stops and new officers,” Gallagher said. “As we get new officers and they become more proactive on the road they generate calls for service with their proactive policing and calls for service in neighborhoods.”

The increase in staff has led to more proactive policing and a landmark year for the department’s development. Not only were 10 new officers sworn in and three new dispatchers hired, but the police department also introduced their first Chaplain Program. This program – lead by officer Angela Carlson – offers spiritual and emotional support to staff and the township during times of crisis, and complements their existing Peer Support Team and co-responder program. 

Per accreditation the police department tracks all use of force cases, which Bloomfield Township has always done. A few years ago the addition of reporting any time township police pull a firearm or point a firearm at an individual, or a taser, counts as a response to resistance and was put in the police department’s annual report. 

“This is good for us so that we can track and train and know the data on that,” he said. “It’s pretty amazing when you look at our total calls for service at 27,067 only 24 of them required any response to resistance. That number is very low, which means the training that we’re doing and the deescalation techniques… and that our community responds well to the police.”

While 27,000 calls for service is significant, Bloomfield Township dispatch saw nearly double that throughout the year.

Throughout the year dispatch received 51,538 non-emergency calls, 17,360 911 calls, and 670 texts to 911. The dispatch unit is staffed by one supervisor and 14 dispatchers who are distributed over four shifts. Agencies dispatched include Bloomfield Township Police, Bloomfield Township Fire, Franklin Village Police and Franklin/Bingham Farms Fire.

“Supervisor [Mike] McCready is always coming down during busy times and can see how hard they’re working,” Gallagher said.

The police department continued to be heavily involved within Bloomfield Township throughout the year with three types of community-care taking services. Those are vacation house check-ins, school security checks, and vehicle lockouts. Bloomfield Township is one of the few police departments in the area that still assists on vehicle lockouts.

Other community involvement includes all they do outside of the police department. Some highlights from 2025 include providing CPL and AED/CPR training at the Regional Youth Police Academy that the township hosted, captain Bryan Pizzuti's win at "Dancing with the Stars,” a successful holiday gift card drive for local families in need, and their Cards with Cops visit to children at Corewell Health's Pediatric Center.

The entire report can be found at https://www.bloomfieldtwp.org/police/police-annual-reports/.