Attend a Beat Community Meeting Meet the officers who patrol your beat. Work with your beat officers and your neighbors to determine the priority crime problems in your neighborhood. Find out what the police are doing and what you can do to fight crime and address the priority problems on your block and your beat. Meet your neighbors and get organized. You can do all of these, and more, at your beat community meeting.

Beat community meetings are held on a regular basis on each of the 281 police beats in the City. On many beats, these meetings are held monthly or every other month. At a minimum, they are conducted on a quarterly basis. The meetings usually do not exceed one hour.

Beat community meetings are hosted by the Police Department and are chaired by a police officer who is a member of the beat team. A member of the community, often called a beat facilitator, may co-chair the meeting and assist in establishing the agenda.

Beat community meetings are an important first step in the CAPS problem-solving process on your beat. The meetings provide you with the opportunity to help set the crime-fighting priorities in your community to work with your beat officers in identifying and prioritizing crime and disorder problems, in analyzing those problems, and in developing strategies to address them. Information from the beat community meeting is used by the beat team in creating the beat plan a tool that helps police officers and the community keep track of the priority problems on the beat and the progress made in addressing those problems.


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