1. The Arvada Police Department

2. Overview of the Police Department Authorized 166 sworn officers 68 professional staff Full service police department Patrol Investigations Animal Management Administrative functions

3. Overview of the Police Department Four patrol sectors Adam Baker Charlie Delta Population: 107,000 Square miles: 34

5. The Question And, maybe the challenge How does a police department add value to their community through collaboration with the business community, and create a competitive edge that other cities cannot match? And, how can we achieve things that we could not achieve if we all did things on our own?

7. Hypothesis The police department can play a fundamental, behind the scenes role in Economic Develop by: Creating attractive conditions for business Addressing crime and disorder issues Helping employees feel safe at and around their workplace Demonstrating to business we are serious about the impacts of crime

8. The police role in economic development (our job is to help you do your job!) Understanding how the police role aids in economic development Joint partnership with the business community in addressing problems Reducing crime to be attractive to business

9. What Matters Most: Quality of Life Factors 1.Low crime rate 84.6% 2.Healthcare facilities72.2 3.Housing costs68.4 4.Housing availability 66.4 5.Ratings of public schools61.2 6.Climate 56.3 7.Colleges and universities 53.2 8.Cultural opportunities 48.7 9.Recreational opportunities 48.2 University of North Carolina, School of Government

10. Survey Says… MOST IMPORTANT ROLE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT Provide quality services and amenities35.9% Provide strategic leadership/facilitation31.8 Create a positive business climate24.9 Offer incentives to companies 4.6 n = 217 Source: Jonathan Q. Morgan, The Role of Local Government in Economic Development : Survey Findings from North Carolina, UNC School of Government, 2009.

11. Place-making How do you make your community attractive? Collaboration Networking Understanding whole picture No silos, rather integration Getting the right people involved

12. Place-Making How your police department can help Go on retention visits Play a behind the scenes role in cultivating business opportunity Keep crime low and improve quality of life Help all employees in department understand their role

13. Place-making Creativity & Talent Cultivation Economic Gardening A C D B A.Social capital Arts and culture Infrastructure B. Quality of life C.Entrepreneurial culture and support D. Human capital (people) “Homegrown” Economic Development

14. How does Arvada Do this? Policing strategy Collaboration with others in new ways Partnership with AEDA By being fluid, networked, and working within and outside our framework Modeling behavior Opportunity to solve significant problems

15. Crime Reduction Strategies Directed Police Intervention DPI

16. Directed Police Intervention What is DPI? What are our goals? What does this mean to our community?

17. What is DPI Strategy to deploy police resources to a particular problem or problematic area Provides accountability for our work Addresses plaguing community problems

18. What is DPI Collaboration between police officers, investigators, crime analysts, and members of our community Evaluation of weekly crime map and target crime

19. Weekly Crime map review

20. What are the goals of DPI Reduce crime and disorder in the City Improve quality of life Develop partnership with all aspects of our community Create sustainable low crime rates in Arvada

21. What does this mean to our community? Arvada will be a safe place to live Improved quality of life Attractive to business Reduced crime rate Knowledge that your police department is taking on crime issues

22. Reducing crime in commercial corridor: Commercial areas between Grandview Avenue and I-70, both sides of Wadsworth By-Pass Focus for September and October 2007 Business contacts Suspicious vehicle and pedestrian contacts Traffic enforcement Directed Police Intervention

23. TARGET AREA

24. BEFORE DPI

25. AFTER DPI

26. Sector Command One commander assigned to each patrol sector Responsible for the crime and disorder issues in that sector Must report to police command staff every 3 weeks progress toward results

27. SCANNING

30. How does this impact Economic Development?

33. How to get your police department involved Start with having a conversation with your chief Explain goals and strategy Show where your pain points are Learn about crime in areas of interest Invite chief to business meetings Make chief a member of economic development team

34. How to get your police department involved Attend briefings, share goals, tell officers how they can help Explain how they add value/benefit Help them understand they’re part of the whole solution Show success Get interested officers involved. It will spread

35. We worked well together... AEDA City Management FireAURA Police Business Community

36. But now it’s ideal... Various Organizations Collaboration Whole Community Cooperation

37. Does this actually work?

39. View crime activity yourself www.crimereports.com Raidsonline.com

40. Contact Information Don Wick Arvada Police Department 8101 Ralston Road Arvada, CO 80002 720-898-6665 don@arvada.org

41. QUESTIONS?