. Annual report of the Police Commissioner for the City of Boston. Deputy Mi;\Margaret S. 0 Malley One example of these efforts included 77 student police officers whoperformed part of their field training exercises in the citys neighbor-hood business districts during the 1997 holiday season. Following thelead of their beat officers, the members of Recruit Classes 34-97 and35-97 were each assigned to a specific beat throughout the month ofDecember. As part of their participation, recruit officers were requiredto meet with local merchants, business people, and residents of theirneighborhoods, a
. Annual report of the Police Commissioner for the City of Boston. Deputy Mi;\Margaret S. 0 Malley One example of these efforts included 77 student police officers whoperformed part of their field training exercises in the citys neighbor-hood business districts during the 1997 holiday season. Following thelead of their beat officers, the members of Recruit Classes 34-97 and35-97 were each assigned to a specific beat throughout the month ofDecember. As part of their participation, recruit officers were requiredto meet with local merchants, business people, and residents of theirneighborhoods, and worked with thousands of visitors and shoppersin many of the downtown districts. This ability to train recruitofficers during the busy holiday season also provided a significant,noticeable and welcome addition to the staffing levels for these highvisibility patrols, and provided these new officers with a realisticintroduction to the neighborhoods where many of them will beworking in the Deputy Siii. , ,Rafael £- Rui: In recognition of this type of ongoing effort, the Same Cop/SameNeighborhood Initiative received the Boston ManagementConsortiums Managing for Safe Neighborhood Award in William J. Mclntyre, Vice President, Massachusetts NYNEXcommented, This years Managing for Safer Neighborhoods awardwinning team. Same Cop/Same Neighborhoods, is a tremendouslyeffective example of a new approach to policing. Through a bottom-up approach to management, developing partnerships with neighbor-hoods, and instilling in beat officers a sense of ownership in thecommunity this city-wide approach to policing has brought the Cityof Boston to its lowest level of overall crime in 29 years. The Bureau of Field Services is also implementing the next step in theDepartments model for Neighborhood Policing, known as BeatTeams. A Beat Team is a group of sworn and civilian personnel,assigned to a designated area within a police district, whose function
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