NEW: Esserman Gets National Recognition for Community Policing
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Due to his innovative work in the field of community policing, Providence Police Chief Dean Esserman has been selected for a national post, Mayor Angel Taveras announced yesterday.
Esserman has been asked to serve on the board of the National Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), which is a federal program aimed at transforming distressed neighborhoods across the United States into vigorous and sustainable communities. On March 23-24, at the organization’s 30th anniversary celebration in Washington DC, Esserman will become the first law enforcement official named to its board.
Community policing is a new approach to law enforcement, which decentralizes police work by assigning officers to work daily in every neighborhood, and builds on relationships with residents and community groups. In a press release, the Mayor’s office credited community policing with what it said has been a decline in violent crime in the city.
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