City of Baltimore - File #: 15-0231R

• File #: 15-0231R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Community Policing - Officer Friendly
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 6/1/2015
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 10/26/2015
• Title: Informational Hearing - Community Policing - Officer Friendly FOR the purpose of inviting the Police Commissioner, the Youth Commission, and community leaders from across Baltimore City to appear before the Council to discuss the process of improving the relationship between the Police Department and the youth of Baltimore, and to explore reinvigorating the "Officer Friendly" program.
• Sponsors: President Young, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, Eric T. Costello, Brandon M. Scott, James B. Kraft, Carl Stokes, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, Rochelle Spector, William "Pete" Welch, Robert Curran, Helen L. Holton, Nick Mosby, Warren Branch
• Indexes: Community Policing - Officer Friendly, Informational Hearing

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/26/2015	0	City Council	Adopted
10/26/2015	0	Public Safety Committee	Recommended Favorably
10/20/2015	0	Public Safety Committee	Recommended Favorably	Pass
9/21/2015	0	Public Safety Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
6/4/2015	0	The City Council	Refer to Police Department
6/4/2015	0	The City Council	Refer to Baltimore City Public School System
6/4/2015	0	The City Council	Refer to Youth Commission
6/1/2015	0	City Council	Assigned
6/1/2015	0	City Council	Introduced

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.

THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.

      INTRODUCTORY*

      CITY OF BALTIMORE

      COUNCIL BILL           R

      (Resolution)

Introduced by: President Young

      A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning

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Informational Hearing - Community Policing - Officer Friendly

FOR the purpose of inviting the Police Commissioner, the Youth Commission, and community leaders from across Baltimore City to appear before the Council to discuss the process of improving the relationship between the Police Department and the youth of Baltimore, and to explore reinvigorating the "Officer Friendly" program.

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Recitals

   �Officer Friendly� is a communitypolicing initiative where police officers engage youth to build relationships and trust at a young age.  Police officers enter classrooms and teach the youth about the importance of their policing work.  Also, police officers teach the youth how to protect themselves from various dangerous situations they may encounter.

   This relationship is not just built in the classroom, but also in the community.  Police patrol the communities around the schools they visited; working the same areas dayafterday for long periods of time.  Police officers would know the parents in the community and would look out for the wellbeing of the youth.

  Officer Friendly was a popular program for several decades, but faded away in the late 1980s with the adoption of different policing and communityrelations strategies.

  Officer Friendly reinforces the police axiom of �to protect and serve� and helps to eliminate the intimidation or dislike of the police by building positive relationships between police and the communities they serve.

  NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Council invites the Police Commissioner, the Youth Commission, and community leaders from across Baltimore City to appear before it to discuss the process of improving the relationship between the Police Department and the youth of Baltimore, and to explore reinvigorating the �Officer Friendly� program.

  AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be sent to the Mayor, the Police Commissioner, the Youth Commission, and the Mayor�s Legislative Liaison to the City Council.

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