Lt. Jason Foore

Lieutenant Jason Foore has been with the Atlanta Police Department since 2003.  As an officer, he worked in Zone 1 as well as the Planning & Research Unit.  After making Investigator, Jason worked in the Narcotics Unit, Missing Persons Unit and the Homicide Unit over the course of nine years.  Upon being promoted to Sergeant, he went back to Zone 1, then spent two years in the Homeland Security Unit.  In 2019, Jason was promoted to Lieutenant, went to Zone 1 for a third tour of duty, and is currently commander of the Auto Crimes Enforcement Unit.

Lt. Benjamin Vayens

Lieutenant Benjamin Vayens has been employed with the Atlanta Police Department since 2006. He began his career in Zone Three (Southeast Atlanta) and had various assignments within the Zone. He was assigned to the APEX Unit as an officer for a short time before being promoted to Investigator. As an Investigator he worked a variety of investigations involving burglaries, robberies, and aggravated assaults. He was also assigned to the Auto Theft Task Force and Fugitive Unit as an Investigator. Lieutenant Vayens was promoted to Sergeant in 2015 and assigned to Zone One for approximately a year and a half. As a Sergeant, he worked in Homeland Security and the Criminal Intelligence Unit. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 2019 and assigned to Zone Three as a watch commander. He was transferred to the Fugitive Unit and is currently the Fugitive Unit commander.

While our officers above account for the majority of the Riverside Patrol hours, there is a deep pool of officers that can be counted on to serve the Riverside and Whittier Mill Village neighborhoods. Every officer has at least 10 years of experience with the Atlanta Police Department. They come from diverse assignments and backgrounds, and each brings their unique experience to the community patrol. Further, the varying assignments allow a great deal of flexibility in scheduling patrol hours to best meet the needs of Riverside and Whittier Mill Village and the ever-changing crime trends.

Scheduling is targeted to best meet the needs of the community head-on. The Riverside Patrol analyzes crime data for the area and adjusts to be “in the right place, at the right time.”  This strategy has met with success as the patrol has been able to intervene in burglaries that were in progress, narcotics violations, and stolen cars. On numerous occasions, suspicious activity has been addressed and halted because of the Riverside Patrol's presence, and suspected perpetrators have fled the area at high rates of speed upon spotting our officers on patrol.