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Community Outreach/Facebooks
As part of the Department's Community-Oriented
Problem-Solving philosophy, HUPD officers are assigned small geographic
areas of responsibility and are tasked with building relationships with the
community. As those relationships grow officers become familiar with problems
specific to their area through the increased communication and interaction with
community members. The HUPD feels community members are more likely to trust
officers that they see on a repetitive basis, and who engage them on occasions
that are not incident-based. Community members who see HUPD officers as fellow
members of their community - and not just enforcement officials - are far more
likely to share information on criminal activity or other problems than they
would with someone who is a stranger, albeit one who wears a uniform.
Therefore, officers are encouraged to form relationships with the community
above and beyond answering calls for service. These conversations present an
opportunity for officers to solicit information about ongoing problems and
concerns, thereby facilitating officers' problem-solving efforts.
In addition to the daily informal face-to-face contacts officers have while
on patrol, HUPD officers perform more formalized community outreaches as well.
Outreaches consist of safety talks, bicycle and laptop registrations, brown-bag
lunches, and other more structured events where HUPD officers provide students,
faculty, and staff direction and steps they can take to maintain their own
safety and the security of others and to familiarize them with the Department
and the many services that it offers.
In early 2010, the Department started assigning individual officers to
Harvard College Houses, graduate housing, graduate schools, various University
departments, and other high-traffic locations. The officers (assigned by shift
- 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM, 3:00 PM to 11:00 PM, and 11:00 PM to 7:00 AM) will be the
primary contact for those locations. The officers will serve as a resource to
deal with ongoing problems or issues that arise. To assist in facilitating the
integration of the officer into the community the Department has created
facebooks for each school, house, or locations where officers have been
assigned. The facebook includes the officer's shift assignment and their email
address so that community members can contact the most appropriate person.
If your school, house, department, or location is not listed below and you
want to arrange for an officer to come out and conduct a safety talk or a
bicycle/laptop registration, please contact the Department's Community Outreach Team in order to
arrange the meeting.
Allston Team
Longwood Team
River/Radcliffe Team
Yard/North Yard Team
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