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NEW : MAP PATROLS
CELLULAR ON PATROL EXPANDS ITS ACTIVITIES

The San Antonio Police Department offers residents the opportunity to participate in a special community involvement program named CELLULAR ON PATROL. Beginning in 2000 and continuing into 2004, the COP Program has expanded to include new and exciting opportunities and activities, such as "MAP PATROLS".

To learn more about COP MAP PATROLS and the MAP PATROL Meetings, please click on one of the selections below.

Basic COP Program
Information
 MAP Patrol
Information		 MAP Patrol
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THE COP PROGRAM

The purpose of the COP Program is to prepare neighborhood residents to be the "eyes and ears" of the police and to promote closer cooperation between residents and city agencies that exist to serve them. The Basic COP Training Program, presented at each of the six SAPD substations, consists of eight hours of classroom training, plus the opportunity for up to eight hours of ride-along with a district patrol officer. Basic COP Class content includes:
  • Recognizing suspicious activities
  • Taking descriptions and calling the police
  • Crime Prevention
  • Working with Code Compliance and
    other city agencies
  • Using cellular phones
  • Setting up COP Patrols
  • Testifying in court
  • COP Volunteer Rules and Agreement
The ride-along experience provides COP volunteers with an opportunity to become familiar with SAPD patrol procedures and to establish points of contact with both the substation and the officers who patrol their neighborhoods. Most COP volunteers have found the ride-along to be one of the most educational and valuable parts of COP training.

After graduation from basic COP training, COP volunteers return to their neighborhoods and, together with other residents who are COP graduates, form COP neighborhood patrols, using the COP cellular phone provided to the neighborhood through Southwestern Bell Wireless.

To learn more about the basic COP Program, including the schedule for COP Classes during 2003, please visit the COP PROGRAM page. To print out an application form (in PDF format) for COP Training, please go to the SAPD FORMS PAGE.

THE MAP PATROL PROGRAM
For residents who are graduates of the basic COP training program, SAPD now offers an additional opportunity to serve as "eyes and ears" of the police. COP graduates can now volunteer to participate in the new "MAP DIRECTED PATROLS" program, coordinated through each of the six SAPD substations.

Within each substation area, some blocks, or streets or entire neighborhoods show a higher concentration of crime than others. This is especially true of Property Crimes, such as vehicle burglaries and burglaries of businesses and homes. Through the use of high-tech mapping software, the San Antonio Police Department is now able to produce maps for police officers and for citizens which show where these higher crime concentrations are occurring.

COP graduates who participate in the MAP PATROL PROGRAM will have the opportunity to join together with COP graduates from various neighborhoods within a substation area to do "Directed Team Patrols" of these areas of concentrated property crimes. The COP Coordinator at each substation will provide updated maps of the target areas needing close attention, as well as information on how these particular crimes are committed so the MAP Patrol members will know what to look for. MAP "Directed Team Patrols" will prepare their patrol schedules with the COP Coordinator, and will be able to track the effect of their patrols through "before" and "after" computer-generated crime maps.

MAP PATROL MEETINGS MAP Patrol Meetings and Briefing Sessions are scheduled by each substation. Please contact the COP COORDINATOR at your substation for the date and time of the next meeting. Each COP COORDINATOR now has a direct COP Phone Line, listed below.
CONTACTING SAPD SUBSTATION COP COORDINATORS
CENTRAL: 515 S. Frio Off. F. Santos207-4164
EAST : 3635 E. Houston Off. W. Herring207-6082
NORTH : 13030 Jones Maltsberger Off. C.J. James207-6086
PRUE: 5020 Prue Rd Off. M. Burnett 207-6165
WEST: 7000 Culebra Off. E. Valdez207-6083
SOUTH: 711 W. Mayfield Off. S. Hermes207-6085
City-Wide COP Coordinator: Off. E. Ramirez (207-7386)
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