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- SECTION 6: LAW ENFORCEMENT & COMMUNITY POLICING STRATEGY Community Policing Plan Narrative Please describe your agency's implementation plan for this program (if awarded), with specific reference to each of the following elements of community policing: (a) community partnerships and support, including consultation with community groups, private agencies, and/or other public agencies; (b) related govemmental and community initiatives that complement your agency's proposed use of COPS funding; and (c) organizational transfomlation - how your agency will use these funds, if awarded, to reorient its mission to community policing or enhance its involvement in and commitment to community policing. Your organization may be audited or monitored to ensure that it is initiating or enhancing community policing in accordance with this plan. The COPS Office may also use this infomlation to understand the needs of the field, and potentially provide for training, technical assistance, problem solving and community policing implementation tools. If your organization receives this grant funding, these responses, along with the previous questions, will be considered as your organization's community policing plan. We understand that your community policing needs may change during the life of your grant (if awarded), and minor changes to this plan may be made without prior approval from the COPS Office. We also recognize that this plan may incorporate a broad range of possible community policing strategies and activities, and that your agency may implement particular community policing strategies from the plan on an as-needed basis throughout the life of the grant. If your agency's community policing plan changes significantly, however, you must submit those changes in writing to the COPS Office for approval. Changes are "significant" if they deviate from the range of possible community policing activities identified and approved in this original community policing plan submitted with your application. In the space provided, please address your agency's implementation plan for this program with specific reference to each of the following elements of community policing: (a) Community partnerships and support, including consultation with community groups, private agencies, and/or other public agencies. ! Please limit YOllr response to a maximllm of3. 000 characters.) The City of Sunny Isles Beach is a small coastal community with many elderly residents as well as many beachgoers and visitors from around the world. It has always been a priority of the city to ensure that its residents and visitors alike enjoy the best possible services when dealing with our personnel. The city will utilize a new medium to communicate with the community. This medium is an advisory radio that will allow the police department will be able to communicate important messages to community members. Any citizen with an AM radio will be able to listen to emergency/safety information, weather alerts, and during non-emergency times the system will broadcast local points of interest and community events. This dissemination of information will improve the way the police department communicates with the community The Sunny Isles Beach Police will also utilize grant funds to purchase defibrillators. The city has a high elderly population that requires well equipped first responders. Currently officers do have defibrillators, but they are outdated and require constant monitoring to ensure they are working efficiently. The police department has always dedicated itself to its citizens and the defibrillators will help us effectively respond to emergencies requiring use of the defibrillators. (b) Related governmental and community initiatives that complement your agency's proposed use of COPS funding. [Please limit YOllr response to a ma>;imll/11 of 3.000 characters.) The Sunny Isles Beach Police Department currently has a squad of officers that takes a proactive approach to policing. The squad uses plain clothes officers in unmarked vehicles to patrol the city in a crime fighting capacity. With the use of the automatic tag readers the squad, along with investigators that supplement their investigations, will be able to protect the citizens within city limits by monitoring vehicles and their operators. The tag readers will allow officers to identify stolen vehicles, Amber Alert vehicles, stolen tags, wanted or missing persons, and drivers whose driving privileges have been suspended. (c) Organizational transformation - how your agency will use these funds, if awarded, to reorient its mission to community policing or enhance its involvement in and commitment to community policing. [Please limit YOllr response to a maxim 11m of 3,000 characters.) The grants funds will allow the Sunny Isles Beach Police Department to enhance the quality of services we offer to our community. It has been a part of our mission to create a feeling of safety and security throughout the community. With the aforementioned purchases this will allow the police department to fulfill that statement.