Multnomah County Sheriff's Office TriMet Police Annual Report - CY2025 - Flipbook - Page 14
TriMet's Transit Police
South Patrol District
While TriMetʼs Transit Police service model does not currently include Clackamas County law enforcement
personnel, proactive initiatives are underway to establish a formal presence. The Multnomah County
Sheriffʼs Office, TriMet, and some Clackamas County public safety partners are engaged in strategic planning
to expand coverage and optimize emergency response capabilities along transit corridors. Consequently,
existing annual performance metrics do not yet reflect the complete volume of transit-related calls for
service within Clackamas County.
When analyzing public safety data within Clackamas County, the statistical tracking method relies on the
specific unit dispatched to a scene. Because Clackamas County does not currently field dedicated transit
officers, transit-related calls are frequently answered and logged under general municipal or county patrol
codes rather than a dedicated transit designator. Therefore, while the dispatch data captured below reflects
the explicitly coded transit-related calls, the actual operational volume across the county's transit
infrastructure could be significantly higher.
With this tracking context in mind, evaluating the broader tri-county transit network and its emerging
activity patterns in Clackamas County provides a valuable guideline for future resource deployment.
Between 2024 and 2025, explicitly coded dispatched calls in this specific reporting area experienced a 37.7%
decrease, dropping from 183 to 114 annual incidents. While a total volume of 114 calls represents a smaller
tracking baseline compared to Multnomah and Washington counties, the heatmap (Reference: heatmap on
Page 15) demonstrates that system demands remain highly concentrated, clustering tightly around specific
weekend time slots and localized weekday windows.
The highest levels of activity in this reporting area occur exclusively on weekends. Saturday at 4 p.m. shows
a peak of five calls, and Sunday at 5 p.m. registers another matching spike of five calls. Taken together, these
two late-a昀琀ernoon windows account for nearly 10% of the annual call volume for this sector. This suggests
that transit activity in Clackamas County is driven by weekend recreational ridership, community events, or
non-work travel patterns.
Transit Police South Patrol District
2024
2025
% change
Dispatched Calls
183
114
- 37.7%
14
