Public Information
The Catoosa Police Department is available for talks and demonstrations in such areas as: Drug Abuse, Senior Safety, Cons and Frauds, Check Schemes, Forgery and Counterfeiting, Personal Safety, Business safety and Robbery prevention, Domestic abuse, Women’s Safety, Stranger Danger, Neighborhood Watch and various fingerprinting of children or groups.
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ID Theft is a serious crime. It occurrs when your personal
information is stolen and used without your knowledge to commit fraud or other crimes. ID Theft can cost you time
and money. It can destroy your credit and ruin your good
name. To find out more about this crime, click on the link
to the left.
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The Catoosa Police Department conducts an annual trip to the Catoosa Elementary Schools and offering fingerprinting and DNA samples of each FOURTH grade student to be placed in a kit for the parents to keep updated and in a safe place.
We encourage all parents to allow their children to participate in this program and we hope that these kits will not ever be needed, but if they are they will provide all the needed information for law enforcement to quickly attempt to locate your child. This is a voluntary program and is done only with parent or guardian approval.
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Note:
No information is kept from these kits by the police department.
The kits are sent home with the children.
Neighborhood Watch Programs are a highly successful effort, which have been in existence for some thirty years in cities across America. They provide a unique infrastructure that brings together local officials, law enforcement, and citizens for the protection of communities. In cities around the country, neighbors for three decades have banded together to create these "watch" programs. They understand that the active participation of neighborhood residents is a critical element in community safety - not through vigilantism, but simply through a willingness to look out for suspicious activity in their neighborhood, and report that activity to the police and to each other. In doing so, residents take a major step toward reclaiming high-crime neighborhoods, as well as making people in all areas of a city or town feel more secure and less fearful.
The Catoosa Police Department has partnered with Project Childsafe to distribute gunlocks and inform our citizens about gun safety.
Project Childsafe is a component of Project Safe Neighborhoods, a gun-violence prevention initiative of the US Department of Justice and the Bush Administration. More information about Project Safe Neighborhoods can be found on the Internet at www.projectsafeneighborhoods.com.
Plans are currently in progress to continue to offer a Citizens Police Academy
to members of our community. The Citizens Police Academy is a program in
which citizens participate in many different aspects of police work and experience
what a police officer confronts on a daily basis.
Another notable community program will include, A Child Is Missing (ACIM).
This program is a public and private partnership. ACIM is devoted to assisting
law enforcement in the initial hours of a person’s disappearance via a rapid
response neighborhood notification program utilizing high-tech telephony.
The addition of these types of community policing programs will strengthen our
relationship and help grow a partnership with the citizens in the City of Catoosa
to prevent and combat crime.
For further information on these different programs please
contact Administrative Commander Captain Paul Whitmire.
Our Department believes together
we will make a difference!