Public Affairs Director Jon Michaels talks about the Sioux Falls Police

Department from Police spokesman, Public Information Officer Sam Clemens.

COFFEE WITH A COP

Coffee with a Cop is a national program that is designed to allow for one-onone conversations between community members and police officers over a cup of coffee. The events occur about six times per year and are relaxed, informal and open discussions about community issues that residents feel are important. There are no radios, cellphones, or other distractions so that the conversation remains relaxed and stress-free. These conversations help us to build trust and work toward mutual goals with community members. We have been holding CWAC sessions is 2015, and we encourage you to check the calendar below for an event near you that you can attend.

CRnt(E FREE MULTI-HOUSNG PROGRAM

The Crime Free Multi and Mobile Housing Programs are a prevention tool designed to help eliminate criminal activity in apartment and mobile home park communities. This is done by using crime prevention methods, including management training, security surveys of properties, information for tenants, and the use of the Crime Free Lease Addendum to supplement the application process and lease enforcement. The program started in 1992 in Mesa Arizona and has since spread throughout the United States and the world. Sioux Falls joined the program in 1997 and has been actively working with property managers since to provide safe housing for the citizens of Sioux Falls.

CITIZEN POLICE ACADEMY

Police work is something that most people find very interesting. Television, movies, books and the media often cover police related stories, dramatizing the work done each day by the men and women in uniform. Quite naturally this piques the interest of the citizens of Sioux Falls as to what their Police Department does. The CPA is designed to help answer those questions.

CPA is intended to build bridges and relationships between our citizens and the Police Department. Often police and citizens have complex relationship. Citizens often believe that they see police not doing their job or exceeding their boundaries. CPA provides citizens a firsthand look at what rules, regulations and policies the police follow. It also shows them and allows them to do some of the training that their officers go through in order to wear the police uniform. In this way, some of the misunderstanding may be alleviated. CPA is not trying to train citizens into a reserve police force, but merely to build relationships with the community and to dispel any myths they may hold.

coyn/11JNITY RESOURCE OFFICER

The mission of the Community Resource Officers (CRO) is to help resolve community-oriented policing issues and to make connections with the City of Sioux Falls' diverse community. The CROs work toward this goal in many ways and have several programs that are used to build those community ties. Some of these include the Coffee with a Cop (CWAC), New Immigrant Citizen

Education (NICE), the Citizen Police Academy (CPA), Crime Free MultiHousing (CFMH) and Police Explorer Post 504. These are but a few of the many ways CROs work to accomplish the Sioux Falls Police mission of partnering with the community.