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The police department has a few community related programs that provide positive interaction with the town. Bristol has a school resource officer that is designated to Mount Hope High School, which helps to educate roughly 1224 students. During the summertime officers are assigned to foot and bike patrol in the downtown business district on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. This area is highly populated during the summer and especially in the month of July. Another program that the department employs is the car seat clinic. Bristol police has three trained car seat specialists that assist with the proper installation and use of car seats. The final component of the community policing that is provided in Bristol is the night patrol commander. This officer is assigned to be the community group contact person, where the officer meets with neighborhood and community groups to discuss contemporary issues in the town.
Patrolman Marc Remington works at Mt. Hope High School as a School Resource Officer. The primary responsibility of the SRO is to protect lives and property for the citizens and public school students by enforcing Federal, State and Local criminal laws and ordinances, and to assist school officials with the enforcement of School Policies and Regulations regarding student conduct. School Resource Officers are not the school disciplinarian and all School Resource Officers shall refrain completely from functioning as one. The School Resource Officer is not to be involved in the enforcement of disciplinary infractions that do not constitute violations of the law.
Patrolman Adam Clifford is responsible for assisting with Elderly Affairs concerns.
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The Bristol Police Department’s first citizen’s police academy was instituted by Colonel Russell S. Serpa during the Spring of 2005. The purpose of the citizen’s police academy is to give the public a working knowledge of the Bristol Police Department’s policies and procedures through a series of classes instructed by Bristol Police Department personnel. The program is designed to encourage input and feedback from the civilian participants. The goal of the academy is to establish a stronger relationship between the police department and the community. The Bristol Police Department will be hosting a Citizen’s Police Academy beginning March 16, 2010. The Citizens Police Academy is a 10-week course that will be held on Tuesday evenings from 7PM to 9PM at the Bristol Police Department training room, located at 395 Metacom Ave. There is no cost to attend and the course is open to all Bristol residents 18 years of age or older. The goal of the academy is to provide citizens of Bristol a better understanding of the mission and operations of the department. Topics will include department structure, patrol procedures, dispatch operations, narcotics, search warrants, crime scene investigation, use of force, domestic violence, traffic enforcement, D.U.I. investigation, duties of the school resource officer, juvenile crime and the court system. Applications are available at the Bristol Police Department or at HERE. All completed applications must be submitted to Bristol Police Headquarters by March 12, 2010. For further information please contact Sergeant Brian C. Burke (days) or Sergeant Scott McNally (evenings) at 253-6900. |
