It's back-to-school time in Illinois.

With students in full swing, some of those high schoolers are getting their driver's licenses for the first time and a local law enforcement agency generally takes notice of the excited first-time, independent drivers.

Lincoln Police Chief Joe Meister says they deal with traffic complaints around the time school gets out in the community.

Unrelated but still on the radar of law enforcement right now in Lincoln is property crimes. Chief Meister explains they are seeing a lot of crimes at businesses. He notes they get both forced entry and crimes of opportunity.

Chief Meister gives props to his detectives who he says have extensive experience in law enforcement and doing detective work. He credits them for helping curb the drug problems in the community.

Chief Meister recently told Regional Radio about a new downtown security initiative they are undertaking as well as a new program to register home security cameras to aid in criminal investigations. We'll hear more from the Chief on those initiatives in the weeks ahead on Regional Radio.