31,- 23.112.31.523 .2. ?1.5.11: 111- ?11 3,13% 1 121 CW =111 1.11=1 C1110 1?4 131 .1 11" 1" 1111' 3537513113118231 (1111310511131 il?o?fidna 13133 3135/ 3313 - 1'10? i1'1itiaisl1i?ate 11.10111 . 11""1a131?131311m W. I'llo'i? initiaieliDate hiote - initiaisi?ate -. initiaielijate gem??mei Recorded 11111110 Data 1111111 5711324" 60:1 .1. from 112 [011/11 11:. 08/31/11. This bit? '13 Report is in regards to 1113111 request to provide you with recorded audio data that is housed and maintained by the South Bend Police Department as paitoi the nOIrnal course of operati.ons For our pIevious dimissions,? on February 4 201.1 was troubleshooting our Dynamic Instruments Receiding System, which Iecords ail oi" our Police 81. Fiie Radio Channels as well as the majority or telephone lines maintained by the South Bend Police 01' paItI'nent. 0111 recordi mg system had a DVD drive failure and we had lost some backup dot a. Rite: a new drive was installed, 1 i: egan to check the recmding eI:Iuion1ent to make 5111' 13.1 it was. operattsd 1:111 lectly. As part oi my trouble shooting, I listened to each Radio Channel Workstation, or'i elephone Line that we nonnaily record as part 101 maintained documentat 1.011 When checking reciord 1an For telephone line I heard a somersation Brian Young of the investigative Division At the time i. was Checking the Iecording device, I undei the belief there may havoTJeen a {Jr?izil'ern with the reoording system as my records listed this line as the Investigative Ch iet?s telephoner ?1 1e and the conversation Was clearly that of Captain Brian Young. The recorded telephone line of 574245-6031. had originaliy been Investigative Division Chief Rick Bishop?s. Chief Bishop was aware his line was recorded but I do not know if he reiayed this to his replacement, Chief Richmond. Chiei: Richmond kept his 01 191 inal telephone line 01574 235- M73 and had given line 571-2313 603.! to Captain Brian Young, i1owever i was not made aware of this. u1ing my troubleshooting Ithoughti the l?i-JCQIClii 119 system was not recording the correct telephone line due to [.11 obimns we had been having with the 13111 1 not to its' Failure. initially when the recording system was set up; then Chief of Poiice Thomas Faulz had ontered that all incoming telephone lines ansniered by the 'rront Desk, Communications, the Chief of Police's tol Dnhw'1 lines, all Division 1.11112. T?s te lephone lines, and th '1 internal Affairs to enhone lines he recorded. ?11113 reasoning behind this decision was that should anyone recei ive teleohone 1.111114. with in Ifon'an .tion regard ing any c1: Ininal 1:11.113 1.r.1' ahegations of 111is1tr'111d13et 3y 1 11111211. we ?would havo and 0 1.101111 nentation oi lea olive. 111.1. 1 11:1 1 :g?jm 1 14111.21 1111111 11 0111-1 turailJN 1115 11-45-13 19h ??11in 113111311 M. i; 3.111: 11111111: 3:11 13116139 i. 11 1. 517N121) 13109;..- ($211.11. 112111 Young i113 1112131111111111. 2312111 1:2: 1:1 513 11111.1 When i heard the on in CaptainYoung's conversation on February 4th. he indicaiea that". [we [satin to Records. to check further co erision, 1213 Keeper of tho .ifi?i?'s at'i'hiirpoinir -l ?lad?qu? see if there woo more information in regard to this incident. - 5 some date 1 d1soovered a in checking audi recordings on thi As you know, this io rocordings are me ofthe audio, i As 1 reviewed so f3 316315.01105101?1115129 and pariment for a minimum 0 Iago on edit the data stored on this [id we do nothavo 5.1111335 and maintained by our tie Hard Drive 11 information is; housed to a maintained on tho Dynamic! hard-drive. Engiosed 21 Written (ieooripiions of the audio [eoordings proviousiy discus?ed that you had re 133515131119 recordings and any quegiions 5111111121 ef??i 111-3310 cont tact me with vo- rogandinq 111 is claim. requested. I ngPr1?111?11w?1111i"