NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, April 28, 2004
 

HARTFORD POLICE DEPARTMENT EXPANDS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE.

(Hartford) - As part of the Hartford Police Department's continuing implementation of organization wide community policing, Acting Hartford Chief of Police Mark Pawlina today announced Detectives of the HPD's Major Crimes Division will be integrated into the Department's Community Partnership Plan under a proposal which assigns each Detective an area or neighborhood of responsibility.  The Hartford Police Department's Community Partnership Plan is an initiative begun by Chief Pawlina earlier this year, whereby Hartford Police Officers are to establish at minimum five (5) partners within the community as a means of establishing meaningful partnerships between the HPD and city residents.

Under the Major Crimes Division proposal, Detectives will be assigned a neighborhood for which they will be responsible for attending community meetings and identifying and solving problems and/or crimes in that neighborhood.  Major Crimes Commander and Acting Investigative Services Bureau Commander, Lieutenant Paul Hammick, in commenting on the initiative stated, "Our objective, in partnership with the community, is to improve our ability to identify and solve crimes in the neighborhoods.  An inevitable outcome of building these relationships will be to enhance the quality of our investigations, thereby resulting in our ability to solve more crimes, benefiting  the entire community we serve.   Detectives have already been attending community meetings and participating in problem solving in their respective neighborhoods."  

In remarking on the integration of HPD Detectives into the Department's Community Partnership Program, Acting Hartford Police Chief Mark Pawlina stated, "By connecting HPD Detectives with the community, the Hartford Police Department has truly expanded its Community Partnership initiative, taking community policing to a new level in our city.  Traditionally, police departments have left their investigative divisions out of the mix when it comes to community policing.  With this initiative, our Community Partnership Program will expand department wide.  Community policing is not just a program, but a department wide philosophy.  The benefits of expanding our community policing efforts through the Major Crimes Division will result in increased solvability of crimes and safer neighborhoods."

The following is a listing of Detectives and their neighborhoods/areas of responsibility:

Major Crimes Detective                                        Neighborhood/Area of Responsibility

For more information contact the Hartford Police Department's Major Crimes Division, (860) 527-6300.  Major Crimes Division Organizational Chart.

Contact:   Nancy Mulroy, Public Information Officer, Hartford Police Department,  (860) 543-8746
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