Community Policing Program Endorsed
Plans for a neighborhood group to be called Cypress A.W.A.R.E.--Available, Willing, Able and Responsive to Emergencies--have won City Council endorsement, and organizers say they hope to launch the project during the summer.
“The program is intended to integrate Neighborhood Watch [and] emergency preparedness, and to develop community resources as a viable and vibrant, community-based policing effort,” said Police Chief Daryl Wicker, who explained the program to the council this week.
In a written report to the council, Wicker estimated that the A.W.A.R.E. program would cost the city about $30,000 a year. “These costs would include personnel as well as supplies and services associated with such a plan,” the report stated.
New police substations are among proposals to be considered.
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