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For a complete list, visit the NHPD Web site.
Yale Child Study/Community Policing Program
This program brings police officers and mental health professionals together to provide each other with training, consultation and support and to provide direct interdisciplinary intervention to children who are victims, witnesses, or perpetrators of violent crime. The New Haven program serves as a national model for partnerships between law enforcement and mental health professionals across the country. NHPD officers have traveled to Hungary and Italy and throughout the U.S. helping other communities to replicate this unique program.
Bias and Hate Crime Advisory Board
A committed group of community members, service providers, academics and police act as liaisons between minority communities and the department, working toward decreasing the number of hate crimes in the region.
Young Adult Board of Police Commissioners
Featured in print and electronic media, including CNN, the Board has addressed the U.S. Congress and met with President Clinton. The Commission is composed of area high school students and acts in an advisory capacity to the Chief of Police.
Community Mediation, Inc.
The NHPD works with this community-based organization to teach both officers and community members alternative dispute resolution skills. In collaboration with the Yale Child Study Center, the New Haven Police Department Juvenile Services Unit and the New Haven Board of Education, they have also brought mediation services to adults in public housing projects and throughout the city.
Drug Court
The NHPD continues to dedicate a full time officer assigned to Investigative Services as liaison to New Haven's Drug Court. The police liaison works directly with court personnel to keep track of all program participants, attend court, facilitate background checks, screen potential candidates and make home visits and employer contacts. The strategy supports the concept of "Community Court" and supports the community policing philosophy. Recent accomplishments include the first graduation of ten drug court clients. Each drug court client completed 12 to 15 months of treatment, which included employment, school or life training skills. Selected as a mentoring site by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals.