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Portland Police Bureau Community Policing Profile Making the Difference Together RECEIVED OCT 21 1992 ..MTV *> RECEIVED CHIEFS OFFICE ^^SI^P^HS^ ^ '* ° ^? HUMAN RESOURCtS Portland Police Bureau Community Policing Profile Making the Difference Together Partnership Empowerment Problem-solving Accountability Service Orientation Message from Chief Tom Potter "We have made our agency more open and more accountable, and through a strengthening partnership with the community we hope to continue that trend." In Portland, the Police Bureau When Mayor IE. Bud Clark To the men and women of the and the community have worked and the Portland City Commission- Bureau, and to the people in our hard together to develop our ers adopted the transition plan in community — thank you! definition of community policing 1990 we knew we had forwarded an and to help make it a success for us. ambitious plan for a department- We have made our agency more wide changeover from traditional to open and more accountable, and community policing methods. The through a strengthening partnership progress made on this plan by the with the community we hope to Bureau and the community has put continue that trend. Portland on the map for developing a progressive police agency. We look forward to sharing our ideas, and learning from others, in our National Community Policing Conference in 1992. Community Policing Profile In 1991, the Portland Police Bureau began its second year of a five-year transition to community policing. The transition plan, adopted the previous year, sets forth an extensive set of goals and objectives touching on every aspect of Bureau functions from patrol to personnel evaluations, from commu- nications to recruitment. The five major goal areas of the transition plan are: partnership, empower- At the open house of the Iris Court Community Contact Office, North Precinct Capt. Charles Moose talks to a young resident of Iris Court. Ongoing projects for kids at Iris Court include camp activities, improvements in playground equipment and bicycle safety talks. ment, problem-solving, accountabil- property and promote individual ity and service orientation. responsibility and community With this transition plan, a commitment." mission statement was adopted This profile highlights the major which reads: "The mission of the activities of community policing for Portland Police Bureau is to work 1991, and outlines the Portland Sgt. Jeanne Bradley, commander of the Sunshine with all citizens to preserve life, Division, helps accept food donations from students vision for community policing for atAlameda School to kickojfthe holiday food drive. maintain human rights, protect the next years to come. Partnership Joining together with Portland's many communities "Community policing simply without working partnerships from could not have moved forward Portland's communities: neighbor- without working partnerships from hoods, businesses, service organiza- Portland's communities...Together, tions, government agencies, social we worked on many critical public service agencies and religious safety issues to try to improve and institutions. Together, we worked maintain our city's h'vabWty." on many critical public safety issues to try to improve and maintain our city's livability from city wide The goal of partnership concerns to precinct-specific issues. encompasses a wide variety of Citywide, two organizations, activities, from participating in one new and one that has been Public Safety Action Committees around for a long time, helped in and the Inter-Bureau Task Force, to reaching the disadvantaged in the working with familiar agencies such community. The challenge of as Neighborhood Crime Prevention reaching out to at-risk youth and or the Bureau of Buildings, to helping them with positive role forging new alliances through the models went to the Greater Portland Community Policing Demonstration Police Activities League, which Projects or the Police Activities held its second annual sports League. quickness camp in 1991 and conducts year-round sports activities At the second annual Greater Portland Police With tightened budgets with the Activities League summer day camp, Lt. Greg Clark passage of Ballot Measure 5 in late to reduce gang and drug activity coaches u camp participant for his next round of flay 1990, the necessity of partnership among the community's youth. football. became even greater to meet More than 50 Police Bureau increasing service requests with employees volunteer their time fewer resources. The police and throughout the year to help with to include becoming the recipient community came together to provide PAL. charity for two downtown music equipment, such as bicycles for the Volunteers from the police and festivals and providing new clothing bike patrol, and to provide services, the community are also the driving to children in need. such as staffing for the new Commu- force that moves the Sunshine Forming citywide partnerships nity Contact Offices sprouting up Division to help feed and clothe to bridge cultural differences is a throughout the city. needy families. Sunshine, which priority for the success of commu- Community policing simply has been helping the community nity policing. In late 1991, the could not have moved forward since 1923, expanded its operations Tactical Operations Division Gang Enforcement Team gained a grant to assist in victim assistance and crime prevention to the Asian communi- ties of Portland. The grant funds three assistants to work with the Asian Gang Detail on outreach, community education, youth gang intervention, victim advocacy and crime analysis for the city's Asian communities. In order to better address crimes that occur because of differences of race, ethnicity or sexual orientation, the Detective Division created the Bias Crime Unit to work with the community to prevent, identify, investigate and track bias crimes. Bias crimes are defined by state law as those crimes motivated by prejudice based on perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability or certain status or affiliations of the victim. The unit works closely with neighborhoods, law enforcement and human rights organizations in defining, reporting and prosecuting Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Wayne Pearson and North Precinct Capt. Charles Moose discuss plans bias crimes. for the new disirict attorney office in the HoUaday District/Lloyd Center. Partnership, cont Joining together with Portland's many communities "A strong partnership and a In addition to city wide priori- policing demonstration project to commitment to change were key ties, individual precincts and work help with the problems of steps to success for the adoption of units worked to form partnerships homelessness and street violence. an Old Town Drug Free Zone specific and important to the The Central Eastside Industrial resolution forwarded to the City neighborhoods and areas they serve. Council and the police worked in Council in 199V In East Precinct, community close cooperation to promote the leaders from the Central Eastside extension of the drug-free zone worked with police in a community ordinance to the inner Eastside and Drug crimes continue to be a to eliminate problems associated major source of crime problems for with abandoned buildings and illegal Portland and most other cities, and transient camping. efforts aimed at curbing these In another partnership, culmi- problems got a boost from a new nating in a fundraising effort by policy and a familiar training. The three business districts, East was Drug and Vice Division, together outfitted with its own bicycles for with the precincts and the Regional bike patrol, allowing officers to Organized Crime and Narcotics Task work even closer with the people Force, created a drug enforcement they serve. The bikes have been policy which outlines responsibilities useful and popular tools for use in for street drug sales and middle- and the downtown, Northwest, Holly- upper-level drug enforcement. wood and Hawthorne business Included within this policy is a goal districts. of demand reduction with commu- Central Precinct was the first to nity involvement. This is the first open its community contact office in step toward creating a regional drug spring 1990, in Old Town, and enforcement policy for the metro- created its community policing politan area. In addition, the demonstration project steering Landlord Training Program committee from leaders in business, continues to serve the community by social service and neighborhoods to training landlords how to spot and work on street drug dealing and prevent drug problems on their street violence. A strong partnership properties. So far this program has East Precinct Officer Chauncey Cur! explains the and a commitment to change were reached 4,000 landlords representing features of new equipmentfor the bicycle detail to the key steps to success for the adoption 65,000 rental units. media and to Eastside business district leaders who raised money for the bikes. of an Old Town Drug Free Zone resolution forwarded to the City Council in 1991. A community policing demon- stration project in a public housing project named Iris Court opened many doors for creating partners for North Precinct. Many strategies created at Iris Court through the involvement of the tenants, the Housing Authority of Portland and the surrounding community were incorporated into other ongoing precinct projects. Through the work of the Holladay District Public Safety Committee, the Lloyd Center/ Holladay District was assigned the first
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