Chelsea Police Department 2013 Annual Report

Professional Standards and Administration Division Captain Thomas Dunn is the Division Commander of the Professional Standards and the Administrative Division. The division is compromised of the following; Safe and Successful Youth Initiative, Violence Intervention Team, PACT, Crime Analysis and Reporting Unit, Information Technology, Training, Recruitment, and Background Investigations and all civilian support Personnel. This includes future needs of the Department services, staffing, facilities, equipment and technology. The Unit is responsible for issuing new and revised Department policies, directives and procedures ensuring that they are compliant with the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Program. It is also responsible for maintaining the building and all of it’s working parts. Captain Thomas Dunn The goal of the Unit is to establish an environment effective in management, teamwork, empowerment, communication and professional development. The Department is committed to providing resources for long-range planning for future needs of the Department – services, staffing, facilities, equipment and technology. Safe and Successful Youth Initiative Lt. Martin Conley is the coordinator of the Safe and Successful Youth Initiative and the Violence Intervention Team. Through a collaborative effort with Roca and North Suffolk Mental Health, CPD is applying a nontraditional policing approach. Focusing on cognitive behavioral change and facilitating mental health services, CPD aims to drastically reduce violence and increase social responsibility among that high risk population. Violence Intervention Team CPD is committed to aggressive investigations and arrests, however, those efforts are being augmented by CPD’s Violence Intervention Team (VIT). VIT makes arrest, performs FIO’s and is a presence in high crime areas. The difference with VIT is that it communicates with Roca’s youth workers to identify (PRM) proven risk males (17-24) who have been considered “Impact Player’s” by the department. Youth workers then engage these PRM’s on the street, applying relentless outreach until they are successful in getting them into Roca’s program. Since its inception, over 150 PRM’s have been engaged in the program. Lieutenant Martin Conley Chelsea Police Department 2013 Annual Report 11

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