Provision of services to improve organizational effectiveness.
Increase leadership capabilities, and improve policy implementation skills.
Creation of a centralized information sharing and problem solving forum among community policing agencies for the dissemination of research findings at various governmental levels.
Promotion of sensitivity to community needs, citizen and police empowerment, commitment to long-term problem solving, and enhanced multi-cultural awareness.
Specifically focused training is provided by the institute through its cadre of community policing trainers located at the regional centers of the Washington Criminal Justice Training Commission in Burien (Seattle) and Spokane, or through the utilization of Washington State University's electronic classroom capability throughout the state, or on-site at a host community.
The institute's technical assistance components link research experts, information systems analysts, community mobilization and organizational development specialists with police organizations and their constituent communities in both urban and rural environments. This focus allows the relevant community partners to develop problem identification and problem solving mechanisms, identify individuals and agencies to work within collaboration, and to appropriately allocate agency resources.
A broad-based and comprehensive research capacity is present to evaluate innovative community policing efforts in the areas of implementation, community participation and police-community relations, citizen satisfaction, fear of crime, quality of life, changes in actual levels of crime, and officer satisfaction and morale.