Woodmoor Public Safety answered 83 dispatches in September, four fewer than in August and the fewest of the four months The Independent has tracked, according to the report the department published on October 5th. Property checks went the other way: vacation checks rose from 540 to 938, and with 1,372 business checks the patrol logged 2,310 in all.
September 2026, by category
| Category | June | July | August | September |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alarm | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
| Animal complaint | 12 | 22 | 19 | 12 |
| Assist | 22 | 16 | 19 | 15 |
| Criminal activity | 7 | 16 | 8 | 5 |
| Fire/fireworks | 1 | 9 | 1 | — |
| Juvenile complaints | — | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| Noise complaint | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Open doors | 18 | 15 | 13 | 13 |
| Other | 2 | — | 1 | 1 |
| Property | 2 | 2 | — | 4 |
| Solicitor complaint | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Suspicious activity | 19 | 10 | 11 | 13 |
| Vehicle/traffic | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| WIA activity | 19 | 9 | 12 | 8 |
| Charted categories, summed | 118 | 109 | 99 | 91 |
| Grand total, as the report states it | 99 | 100 | 87 | 83 |
| Business checks | 1,250 | 1,277 | 1,379 | 1,372 |
| Vacation checks | 768 | 714 | 540 | 938 |
Woodmoor Public Safety is the Woodmoor Improvement Association’s patrol. It lost its police powers in 1995, because Woodmoor is a homeowners association rather than a town, but its officers are trained and armed, patrol around the clock and work closely with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office.
Open doors and property checks
Thirteen dispatches were open doors, the same as in August, and seven of them were at Ascent Church. All but one, at a vacant house, were found by officers checking businesses and churches at night.
Business checks held steady at 1,372. Vacation checks, a daily walk around the house for residents who are away, had fallen all summer, from 768 in June to 540 in August, before rising to 938 in September. The report does not say why. A year earlier the count went only from 763 to 824 between August and September.
Bears, bobcats and barking dogs
Animal complaints fell from 19 to 12. Four were bears, and unlike every bear call in August, none involved trash. On the 1st a resident on Caribou Drive watched on a camera as a mother bear and two cubs looked through the back windows; he lost sight of one cub and worried it had got inside, and an officer walked through the house and found it secure. A dead cub was reported behind a garage on Scrub Oak Way on the 5th, a bear and two cubs lingered around a house on Misty Morning Drive on the 16th before moving east, and a bear reported near Deer Creek Road on the 24th was gone when an officer arrived. On the 20th a resident on South Park Drive saw two bobcats in the woods near his backyard; photographs went to the department and the sighting to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
Six complaints were barking dogs, and one was founded. On the 1st, on Caribou Drive, an officer heard dogs barking without a break, watched three of them at the fence and left a violation notice, the only one in the month’s log. In the other five, either the barking had stopped by the time an officer arrived or the officer heard none. The association’s rules define excessive barking as barking the owner has not stopped before it can be verified. The owner of a loose dog found on the country club’s golf course on the 25th was found while the officer was on the way.
Criminal activity and property
Five calls were logged as criminal activity and four as property, and the most serious were referred to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, which polices unincorporated Woodmoor. On the morning of the 5th two residents reported windows hit overnight by what each described as a metal BB, one on a vehicle and one on a house. One told the officer she had been involved in the effort to stop Buc-ee’s and had received online threats; she was promised drive-by checks of her house for two weeks. Nothing in the report links the two incidents.
That night the owner of a short-term rental reported that a neighbor was harassing his guests. Officers kept the peace until deputies arrived, and after the neighbor repeatedly refused to identify himself, deputies detained him. Two more harassment reports later in the month were referred to the sheriff. And a resident on Kings Deer Lane reported that for several weeks someone had been leaving human feces in the household’s emptied trash can every Tuesday.
Around the neighborhood
Assists were the largest category, at 15: seven medical calls, three fire pages that found no fire, two welfare checks, two jump-starts and one hand-delivered covenants letter. The association’s rules bar all motorized vehicles from its common areas, e-bikes included, and residents twice reported juveniles riding e-bikes there on the 10th; on the second call the officer spoke with the riders’ mother, who said she would see that they stopped. Schools figured in five entries, among them two older men near Bowstring Road and Higby Road handing miniature Bibles to children walking by.
The month’s one noise complaint, about horns at Bowstring Road and New London Road, turned out to be a road crew. The milling machine was sounding short blasts to tell the dump trucks what to do, there being too many trucks to put a radio in each.
Sources & further reading
The Independent’s own coverage: Woodmoor Public Safety’s August: 87 Calls and 1,919 Property Checks, the previous report in this series · Woodmoor Public Safety’s July: 100 Calls and Nearly 2,000 Property Checks, the first, with the patrol’s history since 1971 · Woodmoor, Explained, on why an unincorporated community relies on the county sheriff and a homeowners association · E-Bike Rules in the Tri-Lakes, on the association’s May 27 common-area vehicle rule.
Primary documents: Woodmoor Public Safety Dispatch Summary, September 1–30, 2026, six pages, generated October 5, 2026, and posted with the association’s September report announcement · the June, July and August 2026 dispatch summaries · the August and September 2025 dispatch summaries · the association’s Policies, Procedures, Rules and Regulations, Parts I–IV, amended May 27, 2026, and filed on its governance page · the Woodmoor Public Safety page.
Entities: Woodmoor Public Safety · Woodmoor Improvement Association · El Paso County Sheriff’s Office · Colorado Parks and Wildlife · The Ascent Church.
Methodology
All figures come from Woodmoor Public Safety’s monthly dispatch summaries. The September report was read in full, its category chart and all six pages of its incident log. Category counts were read from the rendered chart, because the text layer separates the bar values from their labels, and the log was tallied entry by entry: its 83 entries match the stated grand total and every category matches the chart. Earlier months were read from the charts in the original reports.
The chart carries a WIA activity bar that is left out of the stated grand total and itemized nowhere in the log. In every month examined, June to September 2026 and August and September 2025, the charted categories exceed the grand total by exactly that figure. The report offers no explanation, and none is inferred here; the totals used are the report’s own. Business and vacation checks are counted separately from dispatches.
Incidents are summarized from the officers’ narrative entries. Locations are given by street or property, identifiers in the log are omitted, and streets are withheld for the harassment and BB reports. Businesses found unsecured are not named. The log identifies officers by first name only, and they are not named here. The covenant rules cited are from the version the association amended on May 27, 2026, read in full. Woodmoor Public Safety was not asked for comment.
