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Transnapastani Times archives
Article date: 5-6-2008
Car 54, Where are you?"
By: Jenny Stilzgar, TCN print division
In an effort to reduce crime through community awareness, police forces across Transnapastain are enacting a new community-outreach program. With crime figures increasing, and officer response time decreasing, and, despite increased funding, higher mortality and injury rates among officers, and citizens while interacting with officers, some members of society are demanding a change in policing policy.
"Our goal is simple." stated Director Eric Cartwright, head of the Office of Public Order, which oversees all police departments in the nation. "We feel that people commit crimes because they see the police as a symbol of oppression, and want to instructively rebel against that symbol. That, or people aren't willing to co-operate with the police, because they don't feel they can relate. We want to change that."
Sgt. D. Jacobson, Livas Police Department poses by his cruiser.
The program, called Community Watch, seeks to make police more accessible to the public by explaining what they do, what equipment they use, and why.
Sgt. Jeff Showson, Subrosa Capital District Police, speaks with several children on the playground regarding safety
"Our officers are reaching out to citizens to show them that the things they carry are not weapons, but tools for peace." stated Lt. Dan Hendricks, press officer for the SCDPD. "Yes, our officers do carry OC spray, expandable batons, and firearms, but they are for that officers protection, and the protection of other innocent people. We take the motto "To serve and protect" to heart"
Ofc. Don Hubbard, Auster PD, conducts a traffic stop along I-98, south of Auster
"We believe this outreach will help decrease crime rate, increase witness co-operation and crime reporting, and, most of all, bring the community and the police closer together, at the local, prefecture, and national level" concluded Mr. Cartwright
Additional pictures found on page A14
This story has been printed and is authorized by the Transnapastain Ministry of Media Quality Assurance. Any reports originating from this, or any other, nation of police brutality are unfounded, and are likely the product of malcontents and saboteurs. The Office of Public Order denies any claims of abuse and reminds the populace to think before it voices unfounded opinions. Remember; we know where you live.
OOC2 "Sorry, that part didn't get carried over when I copied from Word. My police forces are rather brutal, especially in the Undercities, where the denizens there of are considered below (no pun) those living above ground, indeed, their very existence is not publicly acknowledged. In the nicer parts of towns, and in the Capital District, where foreign nations have their embassies, the "community programs" are in effect, to put on a nice face for the world.