{"id":75818,"date":"2023-12-01T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/?p=75818"},"modified":"2025-02-12T12:35:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:35:39","slug":"foundations-sustainable-partnerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/foundations-sustainable-partnerships\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundations for Sustainable Partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Partnerships in public safety are the foundation of successful law enforcement functions.\u00a0Several key ingredients are needed in creating these partnerships. For a partnership to succeed, participants must be willing to create respectful and trusting environments for authentic conversation\u2014everyone involved should be provided the opportunity to share their beliefs about the strengths and challenges of their community. Participants want to be seen, heard, valued, and respected. In addition, public safety leaders must encourage their organization and people to work collaboratively with community partners of all identities and backgrounds. This is the first step to success. The specific needs of municipalities may differ, but there are certain basic principles for successful, sustainable partnerships in public safety, including community engagement, community policing, and collaboration.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #994d00;\"><strong>Community Engagement<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-75828\" src=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lotus-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lotus-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lotus-2.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>The beginning of a successful partnership requires honesty and transparency. An effective gateway for this is the practice of community engagement in which law enforcement creates strategies to build community members\u2019 moral confidence in the police. Events and occasions designed for engagement need to reach all aspects of the community to ensure that there is diverse, fair, and equitable distribution of opportunities to communicate and connect. This helps guide the application of resources toward the needs of everyone in the community, not just a few. Building trust within communities requires the engagement aspect prior to the enactment of formal partnerships. Law enforcement leaders and individual officers can generate informal nonenforcement actions that lead to formal teams. There are several programs and models for engagement, and departments are going beyond what is already available and creating their own.<\/p>\n<p>The Salisbury Police Department in North Carolina has various engagement programs that have led to long-lasting relationships with its community. These relationships have led to partnerships that assist in the agency\u2019s stratified policing model and the overall satisfaction of the community.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-75825\" src=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SNAG-1-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SNAG-1-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SNAG-1.jpg 493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>Salisbury Neighborhood Action Group (S.N.A.G.):<\/strong>\u00a0Once a month, the Salisbury Police Department hosts a S.N.A.G. meeting. Various city leaders, department personnel, business owners, civic organizations, local students, and community members are invited to these meetings to discuss criminal issues, code enforcement issues, and the overall strengths and weaknesses of the city, among other topics. Information is shared with everyone who attends, and potential solutions are discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Salisbury Police Department was awarded the Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Grant.<sup>1<\/sup> As a result of the grant, the community and the agency have partnered for crime reduction and beautification initiatives. A community survey was conducted to determine the greatest needs of the city, and the partners\u2019 action plan is based on the input from the community. The goal is to enhance safety, create a sense of sustainable community networks, and provide resources to as many diverse groups as possible in the West End Neighborhood of Salisbury. Many intervention strategies that are police driven are short term and lack sustainability. The grant leverages the community to keep the momentum of the work going and creates a sense of ownership in the sustainability of the project.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-75836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAFE-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAFE-2.jpg 349w, https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAFE-2-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/>Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN):<\/strong>\u00a0Salisbury Police Department also utilizes PSN, which allows for goal setting and documentation of offender data and implements various community resources providing opportunities for high-risk offenders.<sup>2<\/sup> The project promotes officers actively working with the community and engaging with those who are struggling in the system to resolve issues before they become more significant. The most important component for collaboration in PSN is reentry simulations and the education it gives to resource providers on how difficult it is for someone getting released from prison to reenter society.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-75831\" src=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pic2-NICE-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pic2-NICE-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pic2-NICE.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>Neighborhood Ice Cream Express (N.I.C.E.):<\/strong>\u00a0At the Salisbury Police Department, the N.I.C.E. truck is operated by police officers and travels into various neighborhoods and apartment complexes and attends events to pass out free ice cream and connect with community members. It is an informal engagement opportunity that brings residents and officers together for conversations, which creates a calm and fun atmosphere for fellowship.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLaw enforcement is not capable of solving all societal problems alone.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are additional less formal options for community engagement programs like Coffee with a Cop, which engages community members and officers in a safe environment to get to know one another and informally ask questions and gather feedback.<sup>3<\/sup> No matter which engagement ideas a law enforcement agency utilizes, engagement with community members will increase opportunities for transparency and developing community collaborations. It is paramount that law enforcement takes the time to intentionally cultivate these relationships and assess who they partner with and why.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #994d00;\"><strong>Community Policing<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-75838\" src=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAFE-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAFE-1.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAFE-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAFE-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/>Creating meaningful and trusting partnerships within the community requires that law enforcement and community members understand the difference between community engagement and community policing. Community engagement is based on nonenforcement encounters between law enforcement and community members to create a positive, productive rapport as previously discussed. Engagement is the starting point for developing trust and open communication. However, while it is a positive exchange between the two groups, engagement is only the beginning of creating partnerships. This is where community policing strategies come into play.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services defines community policing as<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>[a] philosophy that promotes organizational strategies that support the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime.<\/em><sup>4<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Partnerships between law enforcement and the community require the initial interactions that allow for conversations that build into relationships. It is at that point that community collaborations and partnerships commence and move forward. Including people from all aspects of the community will help agencies understand where resources are needed and give the community a voice in crime-reduction strategies. The International Association of Chiefs of Police released training key #706, which describes how community collaboration fits into the recommendations by the President\u2019s Task Force on 21st Century Policing:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Law enforcement agencies should collaborate with community members to develop policies and strategies in communities and neighborhoods disproportionately affected by crime for deploying resources that aim to reduce crime by improving relationships, greater community engagement, and cooperation.<\/em><sup>5<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-75839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CEASEFIRE-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>Cease Fire:<\/strong>\u00a0An example of a community-police public safety partnership is the Cease Fire program. Introduced in 2019 in Salisbury, the Cease Fire program began as a local initiative to encourage Salisbury youth and, in some cases, adults to stop gun-related assaults during the summer months. The program utilizes data and analytics to address gun violence and gun crime in specific communities, in partnership with community stakeholders, the Salisbury Police Department, and the Salisbury-Rowan branch of the NAACP. Team members of Cease Fire work as de-escalators amid potentially violent situations between related groups in the community. Currently, Cease Fire now engages the community year-round.<\/p>\n<p>Other examples of such crime-reduction initiatives include community watch programs, crime prevention through environmental design divisions, and business and residential security surveys with follow-up action plans.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #994d00;\"><strong>Multidisciplinary Collaboration<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Finally, in addition to collaborating with community members, public safety leaders should also always try to seek out other professional resources for partnership. The inclusion of or partnership with mental health professionals and social workers can yield benefits for law enforcement and the community. For example, for effective crime reduction, there is often a need to address the needs of those experiencing homelessness and\/or addiction and the root causes of these challenges. Also, officers and staff can benefit from various mental health resources for mental wellness checkups or support following traumatic incidents.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-75826 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAFE-4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAFE-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAFE-4.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Substance Abuse Family Education (S.A.F.E.):<\/strong>\u00a0In 2017, in response to an overdose death in the Town of Mocksville, North Carolina, the Mocksville Police Department, local civic leaders, the district attorney\u2019s office, Daymark Recovery Services, and the Mt. Zion Community Church partnered to create the S.A.F.E. team. The S.A.F.E. team members are certified in life coaching and as smart recovery facilitators. The team works with addicts in the judicial system with the goal of getting them the life resources they and their families need. The team also provides public presentations to the community to educate them about addiction and what resources are available should they or their loved ones ever require services.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #994d00;\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<table class=\" alignright\" style=\"width: 420px; background-color: #102c4e; border-color: #f5f6f8; border-style: solid;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"623\"><big><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">IACP RESOURCES<\/span><\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square; color: #ffffff;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theiacp.org\/resources\/iacp-national-policy-summit-on-community-police-relations-advancing-a-culture-of-cohesion\" class=\"broken_link\">Advancing a Culture of Cohesion and Community Trust<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff; font-size: 14pt;\">theIACP.org<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square; color: #ffffff;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/multidisciplinary-environments-power-collaboration\/\">Multidisciplinary Environments and the Power of Collaboration<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/community-capacity-building\/\">Community Capacity Building and Partnerships in Action<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>As the saying goes, \u201cIt takes a village.\u201d With that in mind, law enforcement leadership must rely on a committed ideology of community policing. Law enforcement is not capable of solving all societal problems alone; however, partnerships between public safety and their communities can have monumental impacts on crime reduction and community relations. The relationships between individual law enforcement entities and individual communities are complicated. Law enforcement, community members, stakeholders, and other community resource groups must be willing to make changes together and trust one another to create successful partnerships for the safety of their communities.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Webdings;\">&#x1f6e1;<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pullout pullout--wide alignleft\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-57411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Black-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Black-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Black-716x1024.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Black-768x1098.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Black-1074x1536.jpg 1074w, https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Black.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><big>Lieutenant <strong>Koula Black<\/strong> began her law enforcement career in 2007 with Ohio\u2019s Medway Drug Enforcement Agency; she currently serves as an organizational development lieutenant with the Salisbury, North Carolina, Police Department, where she oversees community policing initiatives; community engagement; peer support; officer development; recruitment and retention; and diversity, equity, and inclusion.<\/big><\/p>\n<p><\/aside>\n<p><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>The City of Salisbury, North Carolina, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/salisburync.gov\/Government\/Police\/Crime-Prevention\/BCJI-Grant\/rss\/884\">Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation (BCJI) Grant<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>The City of Salisbury, North Carolina, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/salisburync.gov\/Government\/Police\/Crime-Prevention\/Project-Safe-Rowan\">Project SAFE Rowan<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><sup>3<\/sup>Coffee with a Cop <a href=\"https:\/\/coffeewithacop.com\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>4<\/sup>U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office), <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.cops.usdoj.gov\/resourcecenter\/RIC\/Publications\/cops-p157-pub.pdf\"><em>Community Policing Defined<\/em><\/a> (Washington, DC: COPS Office, 2014), 1.<\/p>\n<p><sup>5<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/cops.usdoj.gov\/\"><em>Final Report of the President\u2019s Task Force on 21st Century Policing<\/em><\/a> (Washington, DC: COPS Office, 2015), 20; International Association of Chiefs of Policing (IACP), \u201c21st Century Policing: Pillars One and Two,\u201d Training Key #706 (Alexandria, VA: IACP, 2015), 3.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Please cite as<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Koula Black, \u201cFoundations for Sustainable Partnerships,\u201d <em>Police Chief<\/em> 90, no. 12 (December 2023): 48\u201350.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partnerships in public safety are the foundation of successful law enforcement functions.\u00a0Several key ingredients are needed in creating these partnerships. For a partnership to succeed, participants must be willing to create respectful and trusting environments for authentic conversation\u2014everyone involved should be provided the opportunity to share their beliefs about the strengths and challenges of their community. Participants want to be seen, heard, valued, and respected. In addition, public safety leaders must encourage their organization and people to work collaboratively with community partners of all identities and backgrounds. This is the first step to success. The specific needs of municipalities may differ, but there are certain basic principles for successful, sustainable partnerships in public safety, including community engagement, community policing, and collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>The beginning of a successful partnership requires honesty and transparency. An effective gateway for this is the practice of community engagement in which law enforcement creates strategies to build community members\u2019 moral confidence in the police. Events and occasions designed for engagement need to reach all aspects of the community to ensure that there is diverse, fair, and equitable distribution of opportunities to communicate and connect. This helps guide the application of resources toward the needs of everyone in the community, not just a few. Building trust within communities requires the engagement aspect prior to the enactment of formal partnerships. Law enforcement leaders and individual officers can generate informal nonenforcement actions that lead to formal teams. There are several programs and models for engagement, and departments are going beyond what is already available and creating their own.<\/p>\n<p>The Salisbury Police Department in North Carolina has various engagement programs that have led to long-lasting relationships with its community. These relationships have led to partnerships that assist in the agency\u2019s stratified policing model and the overall satisfaction of the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4042,"featured_media":75840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[621,1625],"class_list":["post-75818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-police-engagement","tag-community-policing","tag-community-police-engagement"],"acf":{"subtitle":"","post_author":"Koula Black, Lieutenant, Salisbury Police Department, North Carolina","main_category":"Community-Police Engagement","legacy_article_id":"","legacy_issue_id":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Foundations for Sustainable Partnerships - Police Chief Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/foundations-sustainable-partnerships\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Foundations for Sustainable Partnerships\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Partnerships in public safety are the foundation of successful law enforcement functions.\u00a0Several key ingredients are needed in creating these partnerships. 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An effective gateway for this is the practice of community engagement in which law enforcement creates strategies to build community members\u2019 moral confidence in the police. Events and occasions designed for engagement need to reach all aspects of the community to ensure that there is diverse, fair, and equitable distribution of opportunities to communicate and connect. This helps guide the application of resources toward the needs of everyone in the community, not just a few. Building trust within communities requires the engagement aspect prior to the enactment of formal partnerships. Law enforcement leaders and individual officers can generate informal nonenforcement actions that lead to formal teams. There are several programs and models for engagement, and departments are going beyond what is already available and creating their own.  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