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Communities must encourage day-to-day interaction with police on the street. Dialogues under friendly conditions go a long way toward building trust on both sides. The police will be out patrolling anyway; it is up to the members of the community to make the contact positive.

The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) is the component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community policing by the nations state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources.

Reaching out to the community, taking the time to address conflict and seeking to understand all flow naturally when officers operate with a mindset focused on procedural fairness. Not only do these strategies strengthen community relationships, but they make the job of policing safer and easier in the long run.

Be transparent and accountable. Transparency is essential to positive police-community relationships. When a critical incident occurs, agencies should try to release as much information about it as possible, as soon as possible, so the community will not feel that information is being purposefully withheld from them.

POST programs and services have historically included training in community-based-policing, racial and cultural diversity, racial profiling and discrimination, persons with developmental disabilities or mental illness, and a full spectrum of other training designed to help law enforcement build cooperative

The Blue Pages are a directory ORSP created to help find Unit Administrative Contacts. If youre looking for a Research Administrator in your school, college, institute, or department, and/or you dont have access to eRessearch and do not know how to get started, the Blue Pages are a great place to start.

Police departments are organized in a hierarchical structure, usually with the Chief of Police as its executive leader (in some agencies, the top officials title is Commissioner or Superintendent). Depending on the size of the department, the number of divisions and/or units within an agency will vary.

Building Trust through Transparency Law enforcement agencies should be transparent in their policies and procedures and should provide the community with information on how they operate. This includes providing information on the use of force, how complaints are handled, and how officers are trained.