Enhanced Communication and Guardian Policing to Build Strong Community Relationships
Proposed Presentation for the Delaware 2023 Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice Integration Summit
As law enforcement expands its collaboration with community entities in the behavioral health, treatment/recovery, and other fields through innovations like deflection, several skills and attributes – including enhanced communication and de-escalation, among others – are critical for police to master. Law enforcement is increasingly reliant on these skills, both for day-to-day police activities as well as building community support and buy-in. Integrating these skills across law enforcement agencies and other community stakeholders critical to enhance community response to issues that align public safety and public health with behavioral health and treatment/recovery. This session addresses a range of issues and priorities that community policing and a “guardian” approach – which leverages collaboration and problem-solving, among other communications skills, to proactively address the circumstances and causes that contribute to public safety issues – can, when integrated with other community priorities and stakeholders, enhance public safety and public health.
This session will address a range of communications and related skills to enhance law enforcement collaboration with community partners and advance police legitimacy. This presentation will deliver the following learning objectives:
• Understanding and implementing communications, de-escalation, and other techniques to advance community and citizen trust and cooperation
• Generating buy-in among rank-and-file officers for guardian policing, community policing, and similar approaches
• Building and executing partnerships with public/behavioral health and other key stakeholders to advance community health and reduce/prevent crime, including through training and other programs to successfully engage community leaders and organizations
Panelists
• Jon Ross, Director of Research & Evaluation, TASC’s Center for Health & Justice
• Chief Wayne Wilde, Round Lake Beach, Illinois
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