Woodmoor Public Safety’s July: 100 Calls and Nearly 2,000 Property Checks

Woodmoor Public Safety answered 100 dispatches in July, according to the monthly report circulated on August 8th by Chief Darrin Abbink. Animal complaints led the list. But the numbers that dwarf everything else are the ones nobody calls in: 1,277 business checks and 714 vacation checks, walked one property at a time.

On Patrol Since 1971

Woodmoor Public Safety has patrolled the community since the improvement association stood up a security force in 1971. It operated as the Woodmoor Police Department from 1972 to 1994 and has carried its present name since October 1995, when Woodmoor’s standing as a homeowners association rather than a town placed it outside the state’s peace-officer system. Officers patrol seven days a week, around the clock, and work closely with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office; the department’s stated goal is the lowest crime rate in the county.

That shapes how the month’s entries close. Officers respond, document and hand off: to the sheriff’s office or Colorado Parks and Wildlife where a matter calls for enforcement powers, and to a violation notice where the issue is a covenant. A great many of July’s calls end exactly there — a gate closed, an owner contacted, a warning given, an agency notified.

Animals Led the Month

Twenty-two animal complaints made the largest single category, and they split between dogs and wildlife. Barking-dog calls recur through the log and a striking number are closed as unfounded — an officer stages in a cul-de-sac for ten minutes, hears nothing, and clears. One dispute escalated beyond the dog: on July 15th a resident on Walters Point reported a sign taped to their front door, using vulgar language and referring to an ongoing barking-dog complaint. It was logged as harassment and photographed.

The wildlife calls are the seasonal ones. On July 27th a homeowner on Sherwood Glen North reported a mother bear and two cubs in a backyard tree, and said they were the same bears that had been in the same tree two weeks earlier; Colorado Parks and Wildlife was notified and the animals had moved on before the officer arrived. Two days earlier, a bear had torn up trash left in a driveway on Fawnwood Road — where, the reporting party noted, the bins had been out for three or four days. The association’s own guidance asks residents to keep trash secured until collection morning, for that reason.

Fifteen Doors Left Open

Fifteen dispatches were open doors or windows, most of them found by officers on foot patrol rather than reported by anyone — an unlocked upstairs door at a commercial building at ten to one in the morning, secured on the spot. This is the category that most directly reflects what the 1,277 business checks and 714 vacation checks are for. Between them those two routines account for nearly two thousand walk-arounds in a single month, roughly twenty times the dispatch count, and they are the reason the report’s headline number understates the work.

Vacation checks are a resident-requested service: an officer walks the property once a day, looks for unlocked doors, vandalism and accumulating newspapers, and moves delivered packages out of sight.

Fireworks, and the Water

Nine calls fell under fire and fireworks, clustered on the Fourth of July and around it, and the pattern is consistent: fireworks reported, officers dispatched, nothing found. On July 4th complaints came in from Harness Road and from the intersection of Saint Andrews Drive and Lake Woodmoor Drive; units responded to both and located neither residue nor any sign of the source. The one fire call that produced something was on July 30th, when a grill fire on Harness Road drew an Active Alert and the fire department arrived before the WPS officer did.

Sixteen calls were logged as criminal activity, and trespassing accounts for most of them — much of it on the water. Officers turned a boater off Woodmoor Lake on July 1st, informed a group of anglers of the fishing restrictions later in the month, and on July 31st found three people fishing in the beaver pond at Woodmoor Water and Sanitation, gone on arrival. None of it produced an arrest, which is consistent with what the department is: the boater was a short-term-rental guest and was given a warning.

Body-worn camera footage is noted as available on a large share of the month’s entries.

Sources & further reading

The Independent’s own coverage: Woodmoor, Explained — why Woodmoor is not a town, how the improvement association governs it, and which districts supply its water, fire and schools.

Primary document: Woodmoor Public Safety Dispatch Summary, 1–31 July 2026 — eight pages, comprising the category chart and the full incident log, generated August 8, 2026.

Entities: Woodmoor Public Safety, including its history, services and staff · Woodmoor Improvement Association.

Methodology

All figures are taken from the Woodmoor Public Safety dispatch summary for July 2026, read in full — both the category chart and all eight pages of the incident log. The chart’s category counts were read from the rendered chart rather than from extracted text, because the text layer scrambles the axis labels and would not reliably match a number to a category.

One arithmetic note. The thirteen charted categories sum to 109, against the report’s stated grand total of 100. The nine WIA activity entries appear in the chart but are not itemized anywhere in the incident log, which would account for the difference; the report does not explain it, and no attempt is made to reconcile it here. The grand total above is the report’s own. Business checks and vacation checks are counted separately from dispatches and are not part of either figure.

Incidents are summarized from the officers’ own narrative entries. Locations are given as the report gives them, by street rather than address. The incident log identifies officers by first name only. Six of the seven — Darrin, Chad, Karl, Chris, Collin and Art — match the association’s published roster; one, Reece, does not appear on it, so no officer below the chief is named here. Background on the department’s history, powers and services comes from the association’s own website. Woodmoor Public Safety was not asked for comment.