The Salisbury Police Department in North Carolina is committed to community policing. So, they focus on engagement with neighbors and the neighborhood through programs, but more importantly, through their presence:
The Community Policing philosophy succeeds by establishing police officers on decentralized permanent beats, where they are charged with the responsibility, and enjoy the freedom and autonomy to operate as community-based problem solvers who work directly with the neighborhood residents. Their assignment is to help make neighborhoods better and safer places in which to live and work.
The people of Salisbury are blessed to have such an engaged police force, and one family, in particular, is thankful for the presence of Officer Kenneth Battle-Hay, whose heroic act is the subject of this week’s Feel-Good Friday. Hat tip to native North Carolina girl and colleague Sister…
