This type of community policing has proven to be a valuable tool in building community trust and partnership, and often leads to arrests of offenders, as well as repeat tips from callers. Additionally, complainants often get to meet CRT Officers face-to-face and are given their cell phone numbers so the complainant can speak to a CRT member as the crime or problem is occurring. In response to each of these complaints, CRT officers attempt to connect with each complainant personally, hear their concern, learn the issue in detail, formulate a strategy together to combat the problem, and assure them that their complaint is significant and being addressed. CRT’s Community Policing Methods CRT fields a steady number of direct telephone complaints from citizens to the CRT Office. Areas of the City in which CRT works are determined by need. CRT utilizes officers both in uniform and in plain clothes, and both marked police cars and unmarked cars. With the police and the community working together, these collaborative partnerships have jointly identified, prioritized and solved problems. CRT uses a service-focused approach that encourages active citizen participation and enables policing efforts to grow and progress from reactive to proactive to coactive. Composed of five Police Officers and one Police Sergeant, CRT’s goal is to work together with residents to reclaim areas as safe, clean, productive places to live and raise a family. The mission of the Community Response Team (CRT) is to improve quality of life in the City through proactive law enforcement and community policing. The Police and community working together will make the City of Binghamton a better place to live, work and do business. The Community Response Team will saturate high crime areas and make pro-active community policing their focus. The Binghamton Police Department plans to deter crime by increasing police presence both on foot patrol and police vehicle presence in neighborhoods and business areas. Although, there are certain crimes that cannot be prevented, crimes committed against innocent victims in public places and crimes against property can be deterred by proactive police operations and an involved community. The police and community members working together against crime will be a major step in crime deterrence. Involving the community will enhance both police and residents knowledge of the nature and extent of the crime problem in the city. The Binghamton Police Department will make every attempt to involve the community in generating mutual understanding and cooperation between the residents and Police Department of Binghamton. The Department realizes that crime is a problem that affects all segments of our society, and is a concern of everyone.
#BINGHAMTON MSEW REGISTRATION#
#BINGHAMTON MSEW CODE#