The Community Empowerment and Response Team, also known as CERT provides the department with the ability to address quality of life issues, emerging crime trends and problem areas in the community. The individuals selected for this team are highly motivated and have demonstrated a proactive approach to problem solving and preventing crime.
CERT allows the Fayetteville Police Department to direct resources to a specific problem without diverting patrol officers from responding to calls for service. The Crime Information Center provides this team with daily criminal informational data that can effectively and efficiently deal with community problems. The CERT team implements crime fighting strategies in programmatic areas and also builds relationships within the community. With our limited resources and emerging crime trends, it is a priority to dedicate resources to this type of special enforcement.
This multifaceted team also targets large and small quantity dealers of illicit narcotics, prostitution and enforces gambling and liquor laws. CERT may use traditional law enforcement methods in reducing the crimes and trends; however, many times they coordinate efforts with other cities, county, state, federal government agencies, private businesses and charities to create non-law enforcement solutions in reducing crimes. The philosophy of the CERT is to address quality of life issues and crime reduction through highly proactive policing, using crime analysis data and directed enforcement following creative problem oriented policing strategies.
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