Silver Spring Police Department community-oriented policing implementation framework
roposal to Create a Police Department You have recently been appointed as the Chief of Police of a newly incorporated city within the State of Florida. The city was chartered to operate under the Council-Manager form of government. The City Commission is comprised of five members, Mayor-Commissioner and four City Commissioners, elected to specific areas at large. The City Commission appoints a professional City Manager who serves as the Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Executive Officer of the City. As the Chief of Police, you are appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the City Manager. The incorporated city consists of fifty (50) square land miles with ten (10) square miles of navigable waterways. The permanent population of the city is one hundred thousand with an additional daily tourist population of approximately twenty-five thousand. The racial make-up of the permanent population is 80% white, 14% black and 6% other. The per-capita income is twenty-seven thousand dollars. The population median age is forty-three. The unemployment rate is 5.6%. Within the city there is a school enrollment of eleven thousand students. Prior to incorporation as a city, the Sheriff's Office provided all police services to the area.
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Silver Spring Police Department
SENIOR CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT
MAYOR-COMMISIONER, JOHN GREGORY
KEITH ROBINSON- CHIEF of POLICE
SENIOR CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT
Total Department Personnel 275
None-sworn
Officer to Citizen Ratio
Base Population 1.86 per 1001
Total with Influx Population 1.85 per 1002
Officers per Square Land Mile
Senior City Police was chartered and its operation put under a form of government i.e. Council-Manager
The appointment of the police chief is done by and reports to the Senior City's mayor
The office of Montgomery County Sherriff is donating the building to be used by the police of the Senior City
Fully- equipped building has been given together with functioning centre of communication, and portable radios for the officers working for us.
The office of the Montgomery County Sherriff has as well donated fully-equipped vehicles to be used by our police, some of which are marked.
Mission Statement
Each and every member of the Silver Spring Police Department is to promote a very safe and secure city by means of effective and professional law enforcement coupled with an impeccable policy of traffic safety awareness.
All the members of the Silver Spring Police Department will treat each and every person with utmost respect and handle all situations in a fair and unbiased manner.
As a very professional organizational unit, we will strive to be resourceful and innovative while protecting all citizens and visitors to in our great city.
Chief of Police
Community Oriented Policing- Silver Spring Police Department Guidelines
Purpose
The main purpose of this document is to effectively outline the entire process that will be used by the Silver Spring Police Department in the implementation of the Community Oriented Policing (C.O.P.S) framework.
Background
Community Oriented Policing (C.O.P.S) is a policing philosophy that was developed specifically to transform the operations of law enforcement agencies. The actual aim was to invrease the total number of officers who are deployed in the U.S. communities, to encourage problem solving as well as interaction within the communities by the police officers, to encourage innovation in the policing process as well as to develop a totally new set of technologies for assisting the police officers in fighting crime as well as consequences of crime (Roth & Ryan,2000). The key concepts that defines this approach are commitment to customer service, an emphasis on finding solutions to chronic problems, empowering the officers to become problem solvers, determination of the actual needs as well as desires of a given community, working in partnership with the general community in finding solutions to issues affecting the community, using all sorts of available resources in fighting of crime and disorder, personalizing the response of police to situations using the "beat" concept, adopting a proactive approach as opposed to a reactive one in the fight against crime and maintenance of order, changing the traditional measures of (police) effectiveness, managing calls for both police services as well as available resources effectively.
Community-based policing
Community-based policing is one of the basic tenets of the Community Oriented Policing (C.O.P.S) philosophy.
Community-based policing is a noted by Trojanovicz and Buqueroux (1990) to be a philosophy and organizational strategy that effectively aims at promoting a partnership which is based on a collaborative effort between the police forces and the community to be able to more efficiently and accurately participate in the identification, prevention as well as solving of problems associated with crime, fear of crime, social and physical disorder as well as neighborhood decay so as to improve the quality of life for all members of the society.This philosophy is enshrined in the Silver Spring Police Department's core ethical values.
Silver Spring Police Department
KEITH ROBINSON-CHIEF of POLICE
SILVER SPRING'S STATISTICS
Senior Population
100,000
80% White,14% African-American and 6% Others
Student population
11,000
Daily Tourist Influx
25,000
Employment Rate
5.6%
Per capita Income
$27,000
Median Age
Years
Navigable waterways cover
Sq. Miles
Land Miles
50 Sq. Miles
Silver Spring Police Department
KEITH ROBINSON-CHIEF of POLICE
SILVER SPRING POLICE DEPARTMENT STATISTICS
Calls handles
175,000
Supplemental Reports
21,3000
Original Reports
41,000
Traffic Citations
63,099
Criminal arrests (
With DUI included-501 DUI Arrests)
9,128
Total Burglary and Robbery alarms
5,318
Crime watch meetings attended
Code of Ethics
Integrity
At Silver Spring Police Department, the personal as well as professional lives of the staff must always reflect the high level of integrity of the Department.The Department is highly committed to the preservation of the constitutional law as well as general orders. Equality and honesty must be practiced at all times in all aspects of our work.An outstanding conduct allows respect to flourish between us and the community.
Quality
At Silver Spring Police Department, we are alwys in pursuit of the highest levels of standards. We always strive to meet as well as exceed the common expectation of our community and peers. We emphasize on staff education, training as well as practicing within the broad knowledge of the constitutional law. This way we shall succeed in providing a safe and secure environment to our communities.
Service
At the Silver Spring Police Department, our main goal is to improve the quality of life within our community of jurisdiction. We achieve this by effectively reducing crime within our city and its environment. We shall however, remain a committed team in the fight against crime and disorder. Customer satisfaction however will be the benchmark for gauging our success.
Respect
In our quest for a secure and well protected society, Silver Spring Police Department is guided by a policy of professional and completely unbiased behavior via the execution of our core values and principles. Each and every member of the Silver Spring Police Department is committed in ensuring that each and every citizen is treated impartially and fairly.
Silver Spring Police Department
KEITH ROBINSON-CHIEF of POLICE
SILVER SPRING POLICE DEPARTMENT CONTRACTUAL SERVICE
(an interlocal Agreement with Montgomery County)
Emergency Response
Barricaded suspects/subjects
Hostage Negotiation and rescue
Hazardous Devices such as bombs
This resolution is to be adopted on 12th October,2012
John Gregory
Keith Robinson
Mayor/Commission
Police Chief
Workplace policy
Work place policy
Complaint process as well as Procedures (for complaints of Sexual Harassment)
In order to accommodate the rather sensitive and unique nature of complaints related to sexual harassment at the workplace, a separate process has been created at the Silver Spring Police Department for the primary resolution of these kinds of complaints. The aim is to resolve them as early as possible. These procedures are contained in this book. The application of these procedures is voluntary. In order to effectively address other forms of harassment and discrimination, there is a need for the employee to use the existing procedures for grievances as contained in the Personnel Rules as well as Memoranda of Understanding.
During the formal and informal complaint process indicated below, there is a need for every effort to be made in protecting the privacy of the persons involved in the particular complaints. This is as long as such as move would not in any way compromises the safety as well as promptness of a thorough investigation.The verbal as well as written document shall in this case be restricted to the persons responsible for the receiving, responding and investigating the complaint. All complaints that relate to criminal behavior shall be appropriately referred to the relevant law enforcement agency.
The complaint procedure
1. Protest as well as objection to the Harassment
2. Seeking of advice/consultation as well as assistance froma supervisor, department Head, manager, HR Director as well as Employee Assistant Program representative
3. Filing of a written complaint
4. Receiving as well as investigating the complaints
5. Resolution of the complaint-if a complaint is substantiated, then necessary disciplianary or legal actions to be taken is not sustained then the Human resource director should conduct a review as well as assessment with the complaint as well as accused on an individual basis.
Silver Spring Police Department
Affirmative Action or Equal Opportunity Employer
The Silver Spring Police Department is committed to the Silver Spring Affirmative Action Plan and is made up of a workforce that is very reflective of the community which it offers its services. Additionally, the Department engages in an ongoing and active recruitment of female and minority candidates via the targeting by the recruitment teams of members of the Department who are
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