The Arvada Police Department
Overview of the Police Department
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Authorized 166 sworn
officers
68 professional staff
Full service police
department
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Patrol
Investigations
Animal Management
Administrative functions
Overview of the Police Department
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Four patrol sectors
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Adam
Baker
Charlie
Delta
Population: 107,000
Square miles: 34
The Question
And, maybe the challenge
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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?
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Hypothesis
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The police department can play a
fundamental, behind the scenes role in
Economic Develop by:
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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
The police role in economic development
(our job is to help you do your job!)
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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
What Matters Most:
Quality of Life Factors
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Low crime rate
Healthcare facilities
Housing costs
Housing availability
Ratings of public schools
Climate
Colleges and universities
Cultural opportunities
Recreational opportunities
84.6%
72.2
68.4
66.4
61.2
56.3
53.2
48.7
48.2
University of North Carolina, School of Government
Survey Says…
MOST IMPORTANT ROLE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Provide quality services and amenities
Provide strategic leadership/facilitation
Create a positive business climate
Offer incentives to companies
35.9%
31.8
24.9
4.6
n = 217
Source: Jonathan Q. Morgan, The Role of Local Government in Economic
Development : Survey Findings from North Carolina, UNC School of
Government, 2009.
Place-making
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How do you make your community
attractive?
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Collaboration
Networking
Understanding whole picture
No silos, rather integration
Getting the right people involved
Place-Making
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How your police department can help
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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
“Homegrown” Economic Development
Place-making
A. Social capital
Arts and culture
Infrastructure
B. Quality of life
C
Economic
Gardening
C. Entrepreneurial
culture and support
A
D
B
Creativity &
Talent Cultivation
D. Human capital
(people)
How does Arvada Do this?
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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
Crime Reduction Strategies
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Directed Police Intervention
DPI
Directed Police Intervention
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What is DPI?
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What are our goals?
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What does this mean to our community?
What is DPI
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Strategy to deploy
police resources to a
particular problem or
problematic area
Provides
accountability for our
work
Addresses plaguing
community problems
What is DPI
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Collaboration between police officers,
investigators, crime analysts, and members
of our community
Evaluation of weekly crime map and target
crime
Weekly Crime map review
What are the goals of DPI
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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
What does this mean to our
community?
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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
Directed Police Intervention
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Reducing crime in commercial corridor:
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Commercial areas between Grandview Avenue
and I-70, both sides of Wadsworth By-Pass
Focus for September and October 2007
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Business contacts
Suspicious vehicle and pedestrian contacts
Traffic enforcement
TARGET AREA
BEFORE DPI
AFTER DPI
Sector Command
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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
SCANNING
SCANNING
SCANNING
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How does this
impact Economic
Development?
How to get your police department
involved
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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
How to get your police department
involved
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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
We worked well together. . .
AEDA
City Management
Fire
AURA
Police
Business
Community
But now it’s ideal. . .
Various
Organizations
Whole
Community
Collaboration
Cooperation
Does this actually work?
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View crime activity
yourself
www.crimereports.com
Raidsonline.com
Contact Information
Don Wick
Arvada Police Department
8101 Ralston Road
Arvada, CO
80002
720-898-6665
don@arvada.org
QUESTIONS?