Baltimore Police Department

By Public Affairs Office
Monday, March 17, 2008; 7:00 pm

As Mayor Sheila Dixon says, "We have no higher duty than to protect everyone in Baltimore City from harm..."

To deliver that protection, Mayor Dixon and your police department have developed and implemented a public safety plan focused on:

1. Building partnerships with federal and state law enforcement experts.
   Every day, Baltimore police officers partner with State law enforcement agencies, the federal government and other city agencies, bringing additional resources to the crime fight. Our partnerships are improving enforcement and attacking crime at its roots.
   
   
2. Engaging citizens in the safety of their communities and strengthening the relationship between police officers and citizens.
   Through programs like Adopt-A-Block, increased foot patrols and partnerships like Citizens on Patrol walks, our officers are getting to know the people they serve and the neighborhoods they patrol better. Building those relationships improves the flow of information, helps the department set priorities and makes us safer.
   
   
3. Aggressively targeting our most violent offenders.
   It is no secret that much of Baltimore’s violence is perpetrated by a core group of violent offenders. Together with the State’s Attorney’s Office, Parole and Probation and the U.S. Attorney, we are successfully targeting these criminals and taking them off the streets.
   
   
4. Getting illegal guns out of our city.
   Easy access to illegal guns makes our city less safe and puts police officers and citizens at greater risk. Our Gun Trace Task Force is dedicated to stemming the flow of illegal guns into our City, the GunStat tracking system is helping police and prosecutors more effectively target gun criminals, and the newly-implemented Gun Offender Registry is ensuring that known gun offenders are carefully monitored.

Thanks to the hard work and commitment of our police officers, public officials, and partners, we’re producing positive results.

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