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The Arvada Police Department

The Arvada Police Department. Overview of the Police Department. Authorized 166 sworn officers 68 professional staff Full service police department Patrol Investigations Animal Management Administrative functions. Overview of the Police Department. Four patrol sectors Adam Baker

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The Arvada Police Department

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  1. The Arvada Police Department

  2. Overview of the Police Department • Authorized 166 sworn officers • 68 professional staff • Full service police department • Patrol • Investigations • Animal Management • Administrative functions

  3. Overview of the Police Department • Four patrol sectors • Adam • Baker • Charlie • Delta • Population: 107,000 • Square miles: 34

  4. The QuestionAnd, maybe the challenge • How does a police department add value to their community through collaboration with the business community, and create a competitive edge that other cities cannot match? • And, how can we achieve things that we could not achieve if we all did things on our own?

  5. Hypothesis • The police department can play a fundamental, behind the scenes role in Economic Develop by: • Creating attractive conditions for business • Addressing crime and disorder issues • Helping employees feel safe at and around their workplace • Demonstrating to business we are serious about the impacts of crime

  6. The police role in economic development (our job is to help you do your job!) • Understanding how the police role aids in economic development • Joint partnership with the business community in addressing problems • Reducing crime to be attractive to business

  7. What Matters Most:Quality of Life Factors • Low crime rate 84.6% • Healthcare facilities 72.2 • Housing costs 68.4 • Housing availability 66.4 • Ratings of public schools 61.2 • Climate 56.3 • Colleges and universities 53.2 • Cultural opportunities 48.7 • Recreational opportunities 48.2 University of North Carolina, School of Government

  8. Survey Says… Source: Jonathan Q. Morgan, The Role of Local Government in Economic Development : Survey Findings from North Carolina, UNC School of Government, 2009.

  9. Place-making • How do you make your community attractive? • Collaboration • Networking • Understanding whole picture • No silos, rather integration • Getting the right people involved

  10. Place-Making • How your police department can help • Go on retention visits • Play a behind the scenes role in cultivating business opportunity • Keep crime low and improve quality of life • Help all employees in department understand their role

  11. “Homegrown” Economic Development • Social capital Arts and culture • Infrastructure B. Quality of life C B A D • Entrepreneurial • culture and support D. Human capital (people) Your Text Here

  12. How does Arvada Do this? • Policing strategy • Collaboration with others in new ways • Partnership with AEDA • By being fluid, networked, and working within and outside our framework • Modeling behavior • Opportunity to solve significant problems

  13. Crime Reduction Strategies • Directed Police Intervention DPI

  14. Directed Police Intervention • What is DPI? • What are our goals? • What does this mean to our community?

  15. What is DPI • Strategy to deploy police resources to a particular problem or problematic area • Provides accountability for our work • Addresses plaguing community problems

  16. What is DPI • Collaboration between police officers, investigators, crime analysts, and members of our community • Evaluation of weekly crime map and target crime

  17. Weekly Crime map review

  18. What are the goals of DPI • Reduce crime and disorder in the City • Improve quality of life • Develop partnership with all aspects of our community • Create sustainable low crime rates in Arvada

  19. What does this mean to our community? • Arvada will be a safe place to live • Improved quality of life • Attractive to business • Reduced crime rate • Knowledge that your police department is taking on crime issues

  20. Directed Police Intervention • Reducing crime in commercial corridor: • Commercial areas between Grandview Avenue and I-70, both sides of Wadsworth By-Pass • Focus for September and October 2007 • Business contacts • Suspicious vehicle and pedestrian contacts • Traffic enforcement

  21. TARGET AREA

  22. BEFORE DPI

  23. AFTER DPI

  24. Sector Command • One commander assigned to each patrol sector • Responsible for the crime and disorder issues in that sector • Must report to police command staff every 3 weeks progress toward results

  25. SCANNING

  26. SCANNING

  27. SCANNING

  28. How does this impact Economic Development?

  29. How to get your police department involved • Start with having a conversation with your chief • Explain goals and strategy • Show where your pain points are • Learn about crime in areas of interest • Invite chief to business meetings • Make chief a member of economic development team

  30. How to get your police department involved • Attend briefings, share goals, tell officers how they can help • Explain how they add value/benefit • Help them understand they’re part of the whole solution • Show success • Get interested officers involved. It will spread

  31. We worked well together. . .

  32. But now it’s ideal. . .

  33. Does this actually work?

  34. View crime activity yourself www.crimereports.com Raidsonline.com

  35. Contact Information Don Wick Arvada Police Department 8101 Ralston Road Arvada, CO 80002 720-898-6665 don@arvada.org

  36. QUESTIONS?

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