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Community SUPPORT
Volunteer Programs
The Park City Police Department is committed, through Community Oriented Policing, to creating partnerships with the Community, our visitors and guests, in an effort to protect and enhance the character of our town, our quality of life and the visitor experience within Park City. APPROACHThrough the restructuring of the Public Safety Department, a higher level of interaction between the Community and our visitors and guests can be realized. Creating the Operations Section and an Administrative Section, both headed by a Lieutenant, has allowed us to move forward in stabilizing and expanding our Community Support Programs and instituting, to a higher degree, the Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving Philosophy Model of law enforcement, which supports individual officers becoming involved in community issues beyond those of a criminal nature and promotes establishing partnerships with groups, business and individuals to address issues surrounding quality of life and other concerns. PROGRESS SUMMARYThe department has, over the last several years, developed and implemented programs that have provided opportunities for a higher degree of interaction with the community in a variety of ways. Addressing issues and concerns within the community that are not specifically crime related, but are perhaps more related to community identity and quality of life and are specifically directed toward prevention rather than reaction, has been the direction the department has been moving slowly but consistently. This outline contains a listing of those department programs that are currently in place, and those programs that are still being developed or are near completion and provides a look at the direction the department is heading. CURRENT PROGRAMS: Traffic Calming Task Force Participation The Community Support Officer is a member of the Traffic Calming Task Force and works closely with members of other departments within the City to address traffic related issues such as new sign placement, specific enforcement requests, traffic control device placement, and traffic calming device placement.D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) The police department has provided an officer to teach the nationally recognized D.A.R.E. Program curriculum to the sixth grade classes for more than 10 years. This program allows the officer assigned to this program an opportunity to interact with youth on an instructional and role model level, without being placed in an enforcement or corrective role. We have found this program to be an effective tool in allowing kids and cops to interact on this most important issue, drug use and abuse. Traffic Enforcement and Education Team This team consists of two full time officers working to educate the driving public on traffic and speed laws through community involvement, mass communication, and speed notification units (traffic trailers). Enforcement of the traffic and speed laws is also employed by the team members. Team members work with the local media outlets to pass on information to drivers, and are interviewed on KPCW live each Monday morning concerning traffic issues.Community Speed Watch Program The Traffic Enforcement and Education team supplies radar guns and training to citizens to monitor and track vehicle speeds within their neighborhoods. When vehicles are tracked exceeding the speed limit, the police department notifies the registered owner by mail that their vehicle was observed exceeding the speed limit and provides a reminder of the importance of safety within our neighborhoods.Mountain Bike Team This team consists of six (6) officers selected and trained to ride mountain bikes to patrol and interact within areas of the community that are less accessible by vehicle. As well, they patrol the City Park area and work closely with the Park Hosts to interact with the park users in a helpful and friendly way.Park Host Program The Park Hosts are citizen volunteers who wear identifiable shirts and hats while patrolling City Park on foot, to assist park users with questions or concerns, and to act as the eyes and ears of the police department so notification of potential concerns or problems can be addressed sooner and through mitigation rather than enforcement.Neighbors Helping Neighbors Established several years ago, this program provides neighborhoods opportunities to meet with the Community Support Officer and other members of the police department to discuss issues and obtain information regarding crime prevention and personal security.Block Watch Program This program enlists individuals within neighborhoods and multi-family housing units to act as eyes and ears for the police department in reporting suspicious and criminal activity within their neighborhoods or complexes.Reserve Officer Program This program has for many years been used to supplement the enforcement efforts of the police department during special events or peak season times. By using paid, part time temporary, certified law enforcement officers, enforcement and patrol efforts have been enhanced. However this program has been enhanced and its mission adjusted to work more directly toward community policing efforts within the community. Reserve Officers will participate in the Foot Patrol Program and work with the Store Front Program in an effort to make our officers and services more accessible to the community and our visitors and guests.Offender Review Board In association with the State Adult Probation and Parole Department (AP&P), police officers and members of the community are invited to meet with and interview probationers and parolees living in our community. This is a relatively new program for both our department and AP&P, however the interaction with community members and police officers will send a strong message to the probationers and parolees that they are known and are being watched.Diversity Outreach Program This program has been in operation for seven years and provides liaison services, advocate services and basic information/language assistance services to the non-English speaking members of our community, primarily the Latino/Hispanic community members, as well as assistance to the police department and other city departments. The Outreach Program has received national recognition for its methods in developing and maintaining working partnerships with the police and the immigrant community.Citizen Alliance Committee The police department, primarily the Chief of Police, works closely with this committee which is a sub-committee of the Parent Student Teachers Organization through the Park City School District. The Committee arranges, conducts and advocates information flow, communication between police and community and encourages community action through public forums involving area law enforcement, school administrators, social services agencies, students and parents.Tip-A-Cop Line This phone line, 615-5TIP (847), provides the community an opportunity to report crime information in and around our schools and community to the police, allowing anonymity, if the caller chooses.Community Support Request Line This phone number, 615-5555, allows members of the community to leave messages for the Community Support Officer, requesting attention to or assistance with neighborhood or community issues.Community Policing Store Fronts This program places officers in a well marked facility in the Main Street Historic District allowing a higher level of interaction with the community and our visitors and guests. As well, the Store Front will supply a visual presence for the department, an office location for officers on foot or bike patrol to use and to act as an information distribution point for the department, City and community information. Currently our first Store Front operation is located at 514 Main Street, next to Dolly's Book Store.Police Radio Program Monthly, a member of the Park City Police Department Command Staff, Chief or Lieutenants, will be on KPCW to talk about police and community issues.Scout Troop Sponsorship The female officers of the department are working with the Girl Scout Council to establish a troop in our area that will be available to the girls who may not be able to afford to join a troop on their own. The female officers of the department will act as troop leaders and assistant troop leaders to create an interaction with the police officers and this group of youth within our community.Business District Foot Patrol Program Uniformed officers will be assigned to foot patrol, walking beats, in the Main Street business district, interacting with the businesses, residents, visitors and guests. The foot patrol officers will be working from the Store Front station on Main Street and using that location to coordinate this effort. As well, the Foot Patrol officers will be interacting with the transit system to monitor activity in our buses and around the transportation hubs of the City. Officers will ride the transit system allowing additional police patrol in and around the resorts and other business areas within the City Limits.Patrol Zone/District Program This program will assign mobile patrol units to designated zones/districts within the City. Assigned officers will have the responsibility of interacting with the neighborhoods, businesses and activities in those areas, becoming familiar with the issues and concerns in those areas, which will allow the officers and the department to create stronger partnerships with citizens and business. This program is basic to a Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving Model.PROGRAMS IN DEVELOPMENT: Citizen Police Academy This program will provide an opportunity for members of the community to learn more about law enforcement, how officers are trained, what they are expected to know and respond as a police officer. SUMMARYThe police department, over the past five (5) years, has gradually moved toward reinforcing, strengthening and creating a rich Community Oriented Policing environment, bringing the police department and the community together to work toward enhancement, preservation and enrichment of our quality of life in Park City. The department is closer now than it has ever been in accomplishing the goal of offering the community a wide variety of opportunities to engage the department and participate with the police department in addressing issues and concerns. Due to the efforts of many within the department, we are now closer to achieving our goal of becoming a Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving agency.
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