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Steps to Community Mobilization
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Reducing Crime and Fear in Your Neighbourhood |
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Crime, especially violent crime, is high and the people in the neighbourhood almost totally depend on the police to maintain control.
Community role
Individuals:
· call police in reaction to crime and disorder issues
· provide information on neighbourhood crimes and disorder issues directly to police
Police act as leaders
Neighbourhood Officers
· identify crime and disorder issues, develop and implement strategies to address these issues, and assess the effectiveness of the strategies
Rapid Response Team and Special Services/Major Project Teams
· Enforcement - large and small scale enforcement projects to remove criminals from the neighbourhoods
· Maintenance - police patrol neighbourhoods to provide an increased presence, to reassure the community, and to keep offenders off the streets
Divisional Primary Response Officers
· Answer calls for police services
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Mobilizing Your Neighbourhood |
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The worst of the violent crime and disorder issues have been addressed by police. Your community is beginning to form partnerships to identify and resolve the on-going crime and disorder issues still present in your neighbourhood.
Community role
Community members begin to organize to discuss crime and disorder issues in their neighbourhoods. Participants include:
· residents
· business owners and employees
· community services providers
· School Boards
· City Departments (e.g. Parks and Recreation, Works, etc.)
· other government agencies
· police
Police become partners
Neighbourhood Officers
· with input from the community, identify crime and disorder issues, develop and implement strategies to address these issues, and monitor the effectiveness of the strategies
Rapid Response Team
· Maintenance - police patrol neighbourhoods to provide an increased presence, to reassure the community, and to keep offenders off the streets
Divisional Primary Response Officers
· Answer calls for police services
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Keeping Your Neighbourhood Safe |
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The community takes control of their neighbourhoods, taking responsibility to identify and solve neighbourhood crime problems and disorder issues; police participate in your neighbourhood as consultants.
Community role
Community members, together, take responsibility for addressing on-going crime and disorder issues. Together, you can:
· work with School Boards to develop an after-school program for youth
· contact the municipal by-law office to deal with construction noise problems
· call the street lighting hotline to report burnt-out lights on neighbourhood streets
· write a letter to your City Councillor requesting bushes be removed from in front of a park entrance as a crime prevention measure
· organize artistic neighbours and youth to cover unsightly graffiti with art
Police become participants
Neighbourhood Officers
· participate in community groups to identify crime and disorder issues, develop and implement strategies to address these issues, and monitor the effectiveness of the strategies
Divisional Primary Response Officers
· Answer calls for police services
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