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Features and Benefits of the Patrol
Special Police for Your
Individual, Family, and Residential Association
Needs |
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I. Our officers provide friendly
neighborhood policing. |
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From the first day of service our officers see
themselves as full members of your neighborhood family. We
are devoted and loyal to your family and to your personal safety.
We are there to watch out for your safety and to reduce your
concerns, because we care about you! Our special friendly nature
and the long-term relationships we build with residents and merchants
and their returning customers alike, help us gather important safety
information in the neighborhood. We go to great lengths to be approachable
by families, school children, shoppers, clients and employees of local
businesses, and residents alike. We say "hi" and offer a
smile to everyone. It means that when you see our officer, you can
ask questions you may have, and encourage your children to see us
as friends and teachers of safety. You can discuss with us how to
improve your home and personal safety, and you can report any thing
or any person that you feel is creating a disturbance or disrupting
your peace of mind. Then your experienced Patrol Special Police
Officer can help you decide if something more needs to be done, including
he or she can refer a deserving person to appropriate City social
services or resources that they may need. |
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II. We stay right in your housing complex or project, on your block,
on your streets, or in your neighborhood for alert, rapid, and effective
crime-prevention response. |
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It's usually easy to spot us on patrol because
we don't have to go out of your neighborhood to answer incident calls
from far across the City. We stay right on your block, around your
homes and schools, and patrol your street or block according to the
service program we work out with our clients. We often arrive at your
house before public police can arrive, because we are near you. We
aren't required to provide overtime policing work to you, or any other
police district, when we are already tired. Thus, we start our
duty day alert and effective. We strive to remain visible on patrol
by foot and sometimes by patrol car, wearing police uniforms including
police radios and arms. Would-be mischief makers easily see us, and
go elsewhere or think twice before misbehaving. At the end
of our day, we don't have to go to City Hall or even to the local
Police District to report statistics such as how many folks we have
arrested: in fact, we are not in your neighborhood to arrest
you! Arrest is not our goal or priority, because very rarely
is arrest desirable in effective neighborhood policing (although we
certainly have and do provide effective arrests when necessary
for your safety and security). |
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III. From the outset, you -- and your community, too! -- participate
in a democratic partnership with our officers to define the precise
services you need, and where you need them. |
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We listen to you and your concerns and needs
as you define them to be. We provide the specific services you desire
(and not extra ones that City Hall thinks you need), from street patrols
to home vacation checks to walking your child to the bus on special
occasions when you have an emergency and need this extra help. To
set up our initial service program and specific elements, as well
as to vary this program over time, we meet with individuals and residential
associations or their leadership boards. We also welcome the
participation of children of families who become our clients, to contribute
their opinion and to observe this democratic model of policing in
action. We attend not only our client's steering committee or board
meetings, but we also attend neighborhood meetings and organizations
to listen to general community concerns or problems and to review
our role in providing part of the solution. Because we do not
need approval from City Hall, we can respond almost immediately to
changes that crime statistics, circumstances, or you require. Of
course, we advise you based on our long and cordial professional connection
with the local San Francisco Police District office to whom we report
each day before going out on patrol, and we have access to important
criminal data and information systems. We also rely our long professional
experience on the streets to advise you. We help you set up
appropriate safety priorities and define problem issues or areas that
merit our attention or preventive steps to improve conditions. No
problem or concern is too small for our advice and consideration;
our service can address many problems including from graffiti, loitering,
disruption created on the sidewalks, panhandling, loud noise, and
homelessness. |
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IV. Your participation as our client, benefits the larger welfare
of your neighborhood. |
Our Patrol Special Police Officers' Vision
Statement recognizes -- and affirmatively commends as should
all neighborhood and City leaders -- the incredible valor and sacrifice
of our private clients who contribute to the wellbeing not only of
themselves and their families, but also to the larger wellbeing of
the entire neighborhood! Thus, our clients answer the call of national
and local leaders in a challenging economy to step up and make sacrifices
to augment scarce public police resources. Our officers are
thus inspired by our clients' commitment to go out of our way at every
possible opportunity to contribute our pro bono policing services
in other neighborhood safety projects and to provide additional patrols
as we are able and to go beyond the call of duty. In addition, our
officers serve all who are in danger when we meet them or
a dangerous situation while on patrol; we never limit
our service to our private clients and in fact, many of our officers
never know who is, and who is not, paying for their additional services!
They respond when and as the situation requires it, and thus, the
Patrol Special Police also benefit the larger community welfare.
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