The Arvada Police Department

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

5. 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?

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

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

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

12. 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

13. “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

14. 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

15. Crime Reduction Strategies • Directed Police Intervention DPI

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

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

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

19. Weekly Crime map review

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. TARGET AREA

24. BEFORE DPI

25. AFTER DPI

26. 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

27. SCANNING

28. SCANNING

29. SCANNING

30. How does this impact Economic Development?

33. 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

34. 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

35. We worked well together. . .

36. But now it’s ideal. . .

37. Does this actually work?

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

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

41. QUESTIONS?