The Special Operations Division consists of a variety of smaller units with their respective responsibilities. They include:
- Background Investigations
- Police Cadets
- COPS Unit
- Crime Analyst
- Crime Prevention
- DARE
- Hiring/Recruiting
- Joint Community Police Partnership (JCPP)
- Neighborhood Action Plan (NAP) Program
- Professional of Standards and Training
- Safe Streets
NAP
As recently shown in the media, the Neighborhood Action Plan (NAP) has been a focus for City Departments and specifically, the Special Operations Division of the Police Department. The goal of the NAP is to reduce crime and improve the livability of our single-family neighborhoods and community by creating a new problem-solving collaborative between city departments and other relevant governmental and private organizations.
SAFE STREETS
The Safe Streets unit is a proactive intelligence led crime fighting team focusing on violent and repeat offenders. By collaborating with other law enforcement entities on a federal, state, and local level, the safe streets unit identifies, locates, and arrests individuals that are a threat to the safety of our community. Focusing on active gang members, sex offenders, and drug dealers, the safe streets unit is able to prevent future crimes from occurring by aggressively and professionally enforcing laws. The result of this dedicated enforcement has been to remove dangerous predators from our neighborhoods and the streets around our businesses.
COPS UNIT
The philosophy behind Community-Oriented Policing is that all members of the community are responsible for the public safety. Police officers are members of the community who are paid to focus their full-time efforts on crime and disorder, but everyone has a role to play in making Brooklyn Park a safe community.
C.O.P.S. officers work in partnership with community members, community groups, schools, businesses, other governmental departments and agencies to help bring all available resources to address crime and disorder problems. C.O.P. officers seek to solve or reduce chronic problems and reduce the need for police calls at high-call locations. For more information about C.O.P., call the C.O.P.'s Program Assistant, Connie Sjulstad, at 763-493-8283, or contact the Police Department.
Conduct on Rental Licensed Property
Brooklyn Park has an ordinance which holds landlords responsible for controlling the disorderly use of their rental property. The Community-Oriented Policing (C.O.P) unit works closely with rental managers to help them live up to this responsibility. This ordinance DOES NOT prohibit calls for police assistance. No rental resident will be further penalized under this ordinance for simply being a victim of crime.
If you have been burglarized or assaulted you can call the police, and our records of these calls will not be used under this ordinance. However, rental residents who have frequent loud parties, who repeatedly invite guests to the property who violently assault others, who fail to keep their dogs from barking, who engage in drug trafficking, or who use the property in some other disorderly manner, may generate police calls which document their disorderly use of the property. The police then ask the rental managers to take reasonable actions to abate and prevent further disorderly use in the rental unit. If the managers refuse, the City Council is able to revoke the rental license for the apartment or rental dwelling unit where the disorderly use is continuing.
If you have questions or would like further information, please contact Lieutenant Todd Milburn at 763-493-8234 or by email at todd.milburn@brooklynpark.org
