C.O.P.S. program

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Community Oriented Police Service (C.O.P.S.)

Gwinnett County's Neighborhood Watch program is called "C.O.P.S." (Community Oriented Police Service).

Summertown C.O.P.S.

Police Contact Liaison :

Coordinators:

Block Captains

  • (list not yet available)

What you can expect from the C.O.P.S. Program

Block Captain Responsibilities

A Block Captain is the contact between Liaison(John Schmarkey) and Participants (that's you!) These are their responsibilities under the C.O.P.S. program.

  1. Assist liaison in coordinating meetings and activities.
  2. Is responsible for an assigned number of homes.
  3. Maintains a ledger of assigned participants.
  4. Participates in the "Calling Tree" according to guidelines.
  5. Documents all reported incidents.
  6. Attends all meetings.

(taken from Gwinnett County's Block Captain's Handbook pg.5)

How you can support the C.O.P.S. Program

Be a C.O.P.S. Participant. Participant responsibilities are:

  1. Supplies Block Captain with ledger information.
  2. Participates in the "Calling Tree" according to guidelines.
  3. Notifies Block Captain of new residents.

(taken from Gwinnett County's Block Captain's Handbook pg.5)

Documents and resources for Block Captains and Participants

Email notifications and discussion

We are setting up two email mailing lists -- this is a work in progress as of Monday; September 29, 2008

  • cops-announce@lists.summertown.org  : A low volume list for C.O.P.S. coordinators to send notices to everyone in Summertown. This is not a discussion list and posting it restricted. Status: functional.
  • cops-captains@lists.summertown.org  : A discussion lists for C.O.P.S. Block Captains. Will allow free participation by all Block Captains. Status: We're currently building the list of block captain's email addresses. List has been created and we have ~9 active captains subscribed.

C.O.P.S. Calendar of events

Calendar courtesy of Google

Meetings

Video of 2009 Annual Meeting

Video recording of our annual meeting with our C.O.P.S. Liaison

March 8th, 2009 Captains meeting for "back" of summertown

Photos from captains meeting


Other resources

Scan Gwinnett


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