Port of Port Townsend’s new security pair on guard during nighttime hours
Published 5:16 am Tuesday, September 4, 2007
PORT TOWNSEND – They are the Port of Port Townsend’s eyes and ears after dark.
Patrolmen Kevin Adams and Pete Parrish, the port’s two-month-old security unit, have quickly learned that Port Townsend Boat Haven, Hudson Point Marina and Jefferson County International Airport are much different places at night.
“We’re a work in progress,” Parrish said.
The port’s first security team patrols port properties by foot, bike and car, walking up to five miles a night.
When all other port employees are off duty, Parrish, 55, and Adams, 34, are working the graveyard shift from 8:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m.
While making their normal rounds, they have already come across a stolen sailboat, interrupted a person checking doors as if to attempt burglary, discovered a crab-boat fire that reignited after the vessel was hauled out at the boat yard, stopped a broken water hose that was flooding a marine trades business, and spotted several unlocked businesses.
