Community Action & Outreach
Crisis Intervention Team (CIT)
Our Mission
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Community Action and Outreach’s (CAO) mission is to infuse the principles of Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving, Intelligence-Led Policing/Crime Fighting, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, resource management, and innovative policing principles designed around developing social capital within our communities to reduce crime and calls for police service. CAO also works to infuse those principles into the RPD.
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CIT brings together law enforcement, mental health providers, hospital emergency departments and individuals with mental illness to improve responses to people in crisis. The CIT program enhances communication, identifies mental health resources and ensures officers have the training and support they need.
Crime Free Multi-Housing (CFMH) The CFMH program is a state-of-the-art crime prevention program designed to reduce crime, drug activity, and gangs on apartment properties. CFMH also looks at the Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) theory and how it can apply to property throughout Reno.
Homeless Evaluation Liaison Program (HELP) The goal of HELP is to provide homeless individuals, who are utilizing services and generating police calls, with assistance in reuniting with family or friends in a stable environment.
