ANti-Crime UNIT

Since Spring, 2004 Trotwood’s Anti-crime Unit has been using an innovative, problem-oriented approach to community-based policing called S.A.R.A. (Scanning, Analysis, Response and Assessment). Based on the national model developed in Newport News, Virginia, S.A.R.A. requires all uniformed officers to use their uncommitted time to look for and solve existing beat problems.

This policing method includes:
• determining where the troubled areas are
• developing a plan for how to deal with those areas and problems
• putting that plan into effect
• seeing if that action plan corrected the problem S.A.R.A.'s purpose is to empower residents by giving them a direct link to the City’s Anti-Crime Unit.

Crime categories positively impacted include:
• street level drug trafficking
• residential traffic complaints
• noise Ord. violations and similar neighborhood-based problems

For more information please contact Chief Quincy Pope at (937) 854-7202 or qpope@trotwood.org.