Community policing is a philosophy that promotes organizational strategies, which support the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques, to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime.
The Field Technician Program is intended to provide technical assistance to the patrol officers on a day-to-day basis. It is felt that by having officers trained in areas relevant to evidence collection, crime scene reconstruction, and photography and to have those officers assigned to shifts for immediate availability, it will provide more comprehensive and thorough crime scene processing.