Fort Worth Police Department Strategic Plan
2: Community Engagement and Partnerships Fostering trust with fellow members of this community is a vital step towards creating sustained crime reductions. Community engagement is working with stakeholders to collaborate and build trusting relationships, to reduce crime and improve the health of the community. Every employee must understand and commit to work beyond the norms of traditional law enforcement. As a Police Department, we are only one part of the equation to reduce crime and sustain reductions over time. It is imperative that the Department engage its citizens, volunteers, businesses, religious institutions, and a host of others in this diverse community to develop strategies for the economic revitalization of crime ridden/unhealthy neighborhoods. Police can help to eradicate the criminal elements in neighborhoods, but the community must be an active part of maintaining it once we disrupt or eradicate the criminal elements. Continuous community involvement creates sustainable crime reductions, so absent a strong partnership between the Department and the community we cannot achieve our goal of becoming the safest large city in America. Goal 1: Promote positive interactions with the public during every contact with a great attitude, positivity, and guardian mentality. Schedule and participate in neighborhood meetings, special events, volunteer groups, etc. The FWPD promotes ongoing dialogue with city youth. We will further collaborate with the community by sponsoring Youth Committees in each police division. Ideally, youths between the ages of 14 and 18 will comprise youth committees that meet monthly or quarterly at a citywide forumwhere representatives discuss issues of concern and importance from the youth’s perspective. At such Youth Forums, the youth and police officers are the key players and will have exclusive dialogue while other attendees will take a support role. The primary goals are to build positive relationships with youth, provide a forum where the youth feel empowered to speak, and engage in meaningful dialogue regarding police and youth activity. Panels will alternate between youth and police hosted, with some forums mixed. Ideally, each division will have an elected or appointed youth board that will distribute a monthly agenda prior to each meeting. The targeted start date is Fall 2017. Community Engagement and Partnerships consists of the following 5 goals and associated action items:
City Expectation/ FWPD Initiative
Estimated Date of Completion
Responsible Party - Lead
Funding Status
Action Items
FY17
FY18 FY19 FY20 FY21
Create a Community Outreach Team with existing resources by FY18 to assist in educating the community about various public safety initiatives and attending and organizing community events.
Community Programs Captain
No Funding Needed
1.1
FY18
1, 4 / A, B
X
X
APPENDICIES A
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