|
 D.A.S.S.
DIRECT ACCESS SERVICE SYSTEM
A collaborative
effort of:
Brockton Police Department
Brockton Neighborhood Crime Watch
Brockton Community Policing Leadership Council
While most departments recognize the importance of outreach, when it comes time for implementation, all too often they ignore opportunities to involve the community in planning. Not only is the community’s input valuable, but this provides a means of access to begin constructing a new and more open relationship with the citizens they serve. Their voice must be heard and their input included.
Unfortunately, however, too few communities have been able to implement efforts that systematically and realistically coordinate the resources of the community with those of the formal or traditional system. Our department believes that the Direct Access Service System
(DASS) will allow for decentralization and personalization of the delivery of services to the community. This process moves beyond the eyes and ears concept of neighborhood policing.
The DASS system is tailored not just to the needs of the residents of the community. Its dynamics Require the resident’s participation. Its nexus is the Personal Accountability and Individual Responsibility of all involved. For this program to really succeed, both sets of players must create a working partnership. Without a sharing of our critical but limited resources, the program will not succeed. The program is for residents that are active members of neighborhood and business watch. Regardless of position or standing in the community, one must be willing to become more visible. The success of this program will be the willingness of residents to come to each other’s assistance more often. We will all be judged on what we do, not what we say.
The DASS system provides that members of the community who actively participate in their neighborhood watch or business watch programs will be able to share in the decision making process. It allows for the participants in the neighborhood watch, business watch, through members of the leadership council and city councilors, to have face to face contact with their police department. It provides that members of neighborhood watch, business watch will have a real voice in the delivery of service to their neighborhood. The members of neighborhood watch, business watch through DASS, can participate on when, where, and what problems are to be addressed in their neighborhoods. It is the consummate community policing effort.
Leadership council
members, area coordinators, block leaders, business leaders, and city councilors, at the request of neighborhood watch, business watch, participants, may call directly to the commanding officers of patrol divisions or commanding officers of specific units to request service or assistance with individual non-emergency long term problems in their neighborhoods. Problem solving is a process for analyzing a problem from several perspectives, not just the traditional police viewpoint. In crafting a range of solutions, we must use criminal law and arrest where appropriate, yet we must look beyond just those two traditional answers if we are to locate a long-term solution that will eliminate or mitigate the problem. While we can continue to make greater levels of arrests and to increase the quantity of available jail cells, these approaches should be only a part of the solution and not our only option. Problem solving is limited only by the imagination, creativity, perseverance, and enthusiasm of those involved.
Officers will be detailed to assist in problem solving and all involved will be allowed to make the nuts and bolts decisions, at the grassroots level, of just how to correct the problem. It will be at this grassroots level that the decision will be made if and when the problem has been solved. This is the ultimate return of police service to the citizens they serve. It also requires that the community become actively involved in solving problems. Community policing is just that, it is the community policing itself. We must all end the finger pointing of blame elsewhere. The responsibility of our problems must be shared by all of us.
____________________________________________________
BROCKTON POLICE DEPARTMENT
Chief William K.
Conlon
|
AUXILIARY SERVICES BUREAU |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CAPT. EMANUEL GOMES |
508-897-5365 |
(Traffic Commissioner) |
|
SGT.
KENNETH LEGRICE |
508-897-5363 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
OPERATIONS BUREAU |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CAPT. ROBERT CRONIN |
508-897-5360 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
INTERNAL AFFAIRS |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
SGT. BRIAN LEARY |
508-941-0223 |
|
|
DET. PETER SKELLY |
508-941-0223 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
DETECTIVES DIVISION |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
LT. JOHN CROWLEY |
508-941-0234 |
|
|
SGT. MICHAEL DENNEHY |
508-941-0234 |
|
|
LT. THOMAS LAFRATTA |
508-941-0234 |
(4-12 SHIFT) |
|
OFC. MICHAEL CESARINI |
508-897-5213 |
SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY
|
|
|
|
|
|
NARCOTICS DIVISION |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
SGT. KEVIN O’CONNELL |
508-941-0234 |
(4-12 SHIFT) |
|
|
|
|
|
ADMINISTRATION BUREAU |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CAPT. ALAN PACEWICZ |
508-897-5353 |
|
|
SGT. DONALD MILLS |
508-897-5215 |
RECORDS DIVISION |
|
OFC BRENDA PEREZ |
508-897-5209 |
LEAPS / 911 COORDINATOR |
|
OFC. LORI FREEMAN |
508-897-5214 |
FIREARMS LICENSING |
|
OFC. MARK REARDON |
508-897-5208 |
911 / LEAPS |
|
|
|
|
|
Community Education |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CAPT. WAYNE
SARGO |
508-897-5360 |
|
|
OFC. AL GAZERRO |
508-897-5373 |
BUSINESS CRIMEWATCH |
|
OFC. ADAM REES |
508-897-5374 |
NEIGHBORHOOD CRIMEWATCH |
|
OFC. RAYMOND PARRETT |
508-897-5377 |
GREAT OFFICER |
|
OFC. NANCY LEEDBURG |
508-897-5377 |
GREAT OFFICER |
|
OFC. MINIRVA BROWNE |
508-897-5378 |
GREAT OFFICER |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE |
|
|
|
SGT. JOHN COLES |
508-897-5101 |
(4-12 SHIFT) |
|
|
|
|
|
PATROL
DIVISION |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8am –
4pm SHIFT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CAPT. STEVEN LOUD |
508-941-0212 |
COMMANDING OFFICER |
|
LT. ROBERT SERGIO |
508-941-0212 |
EXECUTIVE OFFICER |
|
OFC. JASON SULLIVAN |
508-941-0200 |
BEAT 1 |
|
OFC. MICHAEL CLIFFORD |
508-897-5159 |
BEAT 2 |
|
OFC. STAN DAVID |
508-941-0200 |
BEAT 3 |
|
OFC. MICHAEL BUNKER |
508-897-5149 |
BEAT 4 |
|
OFC. KEVIN AMARAL |
508-897-5173 |
BEAT 5 |
|
OFC. CHRIS HILL |
508-941-0200 |
BEAT 6 |
|
OFC. CHARLES JARRETT |
508-941-0200 |
BEAT 7 |
|
OFC. THOMAS DONAHUE |
508-897-5168 |
ELDER AFFAIRS |
|
|
|
|
|
4pm –
12am SHIFT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
LT. LEON MCCABE |
508-897-5118 |
COMMANDING OFFICER |
|
LT. RICHARD CUDWORTH |
508-897-5118 |
EXECUTIVE OFFICER |
|
OFC. FRANK CZARNOWSKI |
508-897-5278 |
BEAT 1 |
|
OFC. JAMES SNIGER |
508-897-5250 |
BEAT 2 |
|
OFC. DEREK SALAMONE |
508-897-5282 |
BEAT 3 |
|
OFC. ALCIDES FORTES |
508-941-0200 |
BEAT 4 |
|
OFC. MICHAEL SCANLON |
508-941-0200 |
BEAT 5 |
|
OFC. MATTHEW GRAHAM |
508-941-0200 |
BEAT 6 |
|
OFC. THOMAS ROBINSON |
508-897-5239 |
BEAT 7 |
|
| |
