Police and Law Enforcement Community Relations

Contents

• Programs to Involve the Community
• Information about Police Procedures
• Complaints - Feedback
• Media Relations 
• Related MRSC Pages
  • Effective Communication and Public Participation
  • Police Department Annual Reports

Programs to Involve the Community

• Advisory Boards
  • Boards and Commissions, MRSC
  • Police Advisory Boards, MRSC
  • Police Review Boards, MRSC
• Community Programs, City of Seattle Police Department Program Listing
• Working as Partners with Community Groups, National Criminal Justice Reference Service, Bureau of Justice Assistance, NCJ 148458, 1994 - An older, though still available helpful publication.
• Planning a Special Event (involving youth), National Criminal Justice Reference Service, OJJDP Youth in Action, 1999
• Citizen Academies, Citizen Police Academies, MRSC
• Police Volunteer Programs, MRSC

Information for Citizens About Police Procedures

What to Do When You're Stopped by the Police, City of Renton

Complaints - Feedback

• Bellevue Police Department Compliment, Comment or Complaint
• Bellevue Police Department Traffic Service Request - Speeding vehicles, problem traffic areas or parking problems
• Bainbridge Island Police Department Complaint and Commendations Police Feedback form
• Oak Harbor Police Department
  • How to Commend an Employee
  • How to File a Complaint Against an Employee

Media Relations

• Identifying Strategies to Market Police in the News (), by Steven Chermak; Alexander Weiss, A report submitted to the National Institute of Justice,  2001
• Marketing Community Policing in the News:  A Missed Opportunity? (), by Steven Chermak; Alexander Weiss, Research for Practice, National Institute of Justice, 2003
• Seattle Police Public Affairs Office
• Working With the Media, National Criminal Justice Reference Service, an index of articles on the subject of media relations administered by the Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice

Need more information?

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