YOUR COMMUNITY
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Proactively addressing local crime issues is the aim of a new community policing approach rolled out across City of Salisbury. The launch of District Policing Teams across metropolitan Adelaide earlier this year is also focusing on working collaboratively with key stakeholders including City of Salisbury to address crime hotspots across the region. Under the new policing model, a team of up to 10 officers is assigned to a dedicated group of suburbs to address the underlying causes of crime, says Operations Senior Sergeant Robert Schaedel, who oversees District Policing across the Northern District. “We are putting effort and resources into local areas to implement and strengthen a problem-solving approach to policing,” Senior Sergeant Scheadel said. “Every suburb in the City of Salisbury is allocated to a team, with 12 teams across the Northern District (which encompasses Salisbury). “The team of officers allocated to particular suburbs will be able to develop an understanding of the crime in their area of responsibility and it will allow them to do more than just react to issues.
Operations Senior Sergeant Robert Schaedel.
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“The teams will be looking at ways to proactively address crime by working with other agencies to address and prevent issues before they turn into problems,” he said.
