Gulf States Regional
Center for Public Safety Innovations
2008 RCPI Network
The 2008 National RCPI Network consists of the following Institutes:
- Citizens, policing agencies, community associations, and other government agencies share responsibility for public safety
- Problem solving for public safety occurs at multiple levels, from local neighborhoods to community-wide areas, organizations, and agencies
- Education and training-of police, community, and government together-is a key vehicle for fostering safer communities
- Knowledge and trust are built on collaboration and
information sharing; information sharing can be improved
with enhanced technology
Arizona RCPI
The
Arizona Regional Community Policing Institute was
established in 1997 and funded through the United
States Department of Justice Office of Community
Oriented Policing Services (COPS) with the purpose
of institutionalizing community policing
philosophies throughout the State of Arizona.
AZRCPI is a partnership of the Arizona Association
of Chiefs of Police (AACOP), Arizona Peace Officer
Standards and Training Board (AZPOST), Arizona
Sheriff’s Association (ASA), Arizona State
University (ASU), Arizona Fraternal Orders of Police
(AFOP), Gilbert, Mesa, Phoenix, Surprise, and Tucson
Police Departments, Phoenix Greater Urban League,
Neighborhood Activists Inter-Linked Empowerment
Movement (NAILEM). All of the classes offered are
AZPOST certified for continuing education credit.
All classes are available to sworn and civilian
members of any criminal justice agency, as well as
interested community members.
Website: http://www.azpost.state.az.us/
Phone: (602) 223-2560
Fax: (602) 244-0477
California RCPI
The Regional Community Policing Institute - California (RCPI-CA) is a
partnership of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los
Angeles, and Rio Hondo Community College. It is located at the Sheriff's Training Academy in Whittier, CA.
Website: http://www.rcpi-ca.org
Phone: (800) 659-8985
Fax: (562) 941-7310
Carolinas Institute for Community Policing
CICP is committed to
providing community-based training and educational
experiences that will effectively identify, address
and resolve problems and enhance the quality of life
within our communities. We provide training
throughout North and South Carolina. CICP is unique
among Regional Community Policing Institutes (RCPI)
in the United States. It is the only RCPI offering
courses in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for
crime analysis and community policing. GIS tools
provide the functionality to perform anything from
automated pin mapping to providing management
support for personnel deployment and redistricting.
Through the virtual maps that can be created using
GIS, a more complete picture of a particular
community can be formed.
Website: http://www.cicp.org
Phone: (877) 726-0555
Fax: (864) 250-8657
Colorado RCPI
The Colorado
Regional Community Policing Institute was created by
the Colorado Department of Public Safety, Division
of Criminal Justice, in 1997 and is funded by the
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community
Oriented Policing Services (COPS). The Colorado
Regional Community Policing Institute provides
training and technical assistance for law
enforcement agencies and officers throughout
Colorado. Programs include entry-level recruit
training through the Colorado Police Corps Academy,
as well as offering a variety of professional skill
development courses for Colorado public safety
agencies and communities, supplemented by community
problem-solving grant program, Line Officer Grants.
Website: http://dcj.state.co.us/crcpi
Phone: (303) 273-1970
Fax: (303) 273-1978
Florida RCPI
The Florida Regional
Community Policing Institute (RCPI) at St.
Petersburg College provides free community policing
training and technical assistance to law enforcement
agencies and the communities they serve. This
statewide training focuses on collaborative
partnerships and problem-solving strategies for
criminal justice practitioners, citizens and
community leaders – including youth, volunteers,
city employees, elected officials, social service
agencies and private sector representatives.
Website: http://cop.spjc.edu/cop
Phone: (727) 341-4581
Fax: (727) 341-4524
Gulf States RCPI
The Gulf States
Regional Center for Public Safety Innovations is
dedicated to building partnerships between law
enforcement agencies, government, and community
organizations to facilitate the implementation of
Public Safety Initiatives. Our goal is to enhance
public safety and to improve the quality of life in
Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
Website: http://www.gsrcpi.org
Phone: (888) 283-0966
Fax: (318) 357-6964
Illinois Regional Institute for Community Policing
Our
mission is to promote community policing as a
philosophy and practice for all members of a
community through innovative education, training,
and technical assistance in order to increase the
quality of life in Illinois.
RICP will assist police organizations in
transforming law enforcement training and developing
personnel for the ever changing leadership roles
which will sustain community policing in the 21st
century. The RICP specializes in providing
instruction related to the organizational and
community dynamics which support the implementation
of community policing. The RICP also trains
communities to assess the impact of their own
community policing efforts. Through this assessment,
communities can conduct case studies of selected
areas to determine the effects of
Institute-sponsored programs.
Located in Springfield, the Regional Institute for
Community Policing has access to resources through
the university system, which include traditional
classrooms, distance-learning facilities, and video
access to state and university facilities located
throughout Illinois.
Website: http://ricp.uis.edu
Phone: (877) 864-7427
Fax: (217) 206-6063
Institute for Public Safety Partnerships
The
Institute for Public Safety Partnerships is a
cooperative effort between community organizations,
police agencies, educational institutions, and other
governmental agencies. It is dedicated to enhancing
the capacities of communities, police, and other
agencies to work together, and to building safer and
healthier communities through a prevention oriented
approach to policing. The Institute is founded on
the following principles:
Website: http://www.ipsp.us
Phone: (312) 355-1755
Fax: (312) 355-1398
Indiana RCPI
The
Indiana Regional Community Policing Institute (RCPI)
exists to develop, promote, and provide
comprehensive, innovative educational policing
strategies, for law enforcement agencies and
community, in order to enhance the quality of life
throughout the Indiana region.
Website: http://indianarcpi.org/
Phone: (877) 739-7274
Fax: (260) 745-9966
Kansas RCPI
The
WSU RCPI has received a grant to provide training
and technical assistance on all aspects of ethics
and integrity in the states of Kansas and Nebraska.
This grant will fund a wide range of ethics and
integrity training programs for law enforcement and
correction agencies. Training topics will include a
wide range of issues discussing racial profiling,
excessive force and perjury and will intertwine
issues related to terrorism in American policing.
Website: http://www.wsurcpi.org
Phone: (888) 877-0585
Fax: (316) 978-3345
Kentucky RCPI
The
mission of the Kentucky Regional Community Policing
Institute at Eastern Kentucky University is to
encourage and enhance the implementation of
community policing in Kentucky in order to create
safer communities through training and technical
assistance. Training is centered on the development
and delivery of quality community policing training
for police agencies and citizens throughout the
state of Kentucky.
Website: http://www.kycops.org
Phone: (859) 622-2362
Fax: (859) 622-5879
Maine RCPI
The
Maine Community Policing Institute (MCPI) is a
division of The University of Maine at Augusta. Our
mission is to deliver education, training and
technical assistance on the Community Oriented
Policing philosophy, components, and strategies.
MCPI is positioned as a central resource for
neighborhoods, communities, and law enforcement
agencies in the dissemination of Community Policing
information.
Website: http://www.mcpi.uma.maine.edu
Phone: (800) 734-2991
Fax: (207) 621-3301
Michigan RCPI
The
Michigan Regional Community Policing Institute
(RCPI) is one Institute in a national network of
Institutes, charged with institutionalizing the
principles of community policing in law enforcement
agencies through innovative community policing
training and technical assistance. RCPI’s have the
latitude to experiment with new ideas that challenge
and improve traditional training curricula, and to
develop new curricula to support community policing
and sustain it into the future.
Website: http://www.cj.msu.edu/~outreach/rcpi
Phone: (517) 355-9648
Fax: (517) 4432-0727
Mid-Atlantic RCPI
The
mission of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Community
Policing Institute (MARCPI) is to support law
enforcement agencies and their communities in
fostering police integrity and ethics through
quality education and training, interagency
cooperation and collaboration, quality leadership,
and commitment to community policing. Further, it is
the mission of the Institute to foster lasting
partnerships among law enforcement and other
government agencies, community organizations,
educational institutions, non-profit agencies,
businesses and industries, and other entities to
improve police service and the viability and
well-being of neighborhoods. MARCPI provides
community policing services to the Mid-Atlantic
region. This region includes: Maryland, Delaware,
the District of Columbia, Southern Pennsylvania, and
Northern Virginia.
Website: http://marcpi.jhu.edu/marcpi
Phone: (888) 415-4466
Fax: (410) 290-1061
Missouri RCPI
The
Missouri Western State University-Regional Community
Policing Institute will provide, professional and
interactive community policing training and
technical assistance to law enforcement agencies,
business and community organizations, and citizens
throughout the state of Missouri. MWSU-RCPI will
utilize a variety of traditional and innovative
educational and training delivery methods to provide
accessibility to Institute services to all regions
of Missouri. The MWSU-RCPI will work collaborative
with its partner organizations to facilitate the
implementation of the concepts and philosophy of
community problem solving as a primary means of
addressing crime and disorder to improve the overall
quality of life for citizens of Missouri.
Website: http://www.missouriwestern.edu/rcpi
Phone: (816) 271-5601
Fax: (816) 271-5603
New England RCPI
RCPI-NE
is a change agent dedicated to educating both police
officers and community members about the philosophy
and implementation of community policing. Guided by
an exacting set of values, RCPI-NE offers training
and follows up with technical assistance to help
citizens, officials and police departments put
community policing to work to solve problems and
prevent crime.
Website: http://www.rcpinewengland.org
Phone: (617) 373-7098
Fax: (617) 373-7496
New York State RCPI
The
New York State Regional Community Policing Institute
seeks to engage police and community (citizens,
government, private organizations and businesses) in
active collaboration to reduce crime, help maintain
order and improve the quality of life throughout the
states of New York and New Jersey and their diverse
communities. The Institute draws on the collective
talents of law enforcement and communities in order
to strengthen the ability of a democratic society to
police itself and thereby promote freedom for all
stakeholders within our neighborhoods and beyond.
Website: http://www.newyorkstatercpi.com
Phone: (212) 237-8572
Fax: (212) 237-8637
Oklahoma RCPI
The
Oklahoma Regional Community Policing Institute's
mission is to enable all community members, law
enforcement, government officials, community leaders
and merchants, educational professionals and
students, to see themselves as stakeholders in
building a safer Oklahoma. The community policing
philosophy encourages a broader understanding
between citizens and law enforcement, and focuses on
a shared responsibility in preventing crime and
making neighborhoods safer.
Website: http://www.orcpi.com
Phone: (405) 671-8742
Fax: (405) 671-8745
Pennsylvania RCPI
The
Pennsylvania Regional Community Policing Institute,
with offices in Allentown and Pittsburgh, is funded
by the United States Department of Justice and
managed by the Office of Community Oriented Policing
Services (OCOPS), in cooperation with ALERT
Partnership, Bethlehem Police Department, Lehigh
Valley Hospital Health Network and Lehigh
University. Our unique partnership is based on the
Community Health Model with LVHHN as lead agency.
The LVHHN defines its community role beyond reacting
to individual medical needs. It embraces as its
organizational philosophy community health and well
being. As such, its vast resources and community
programs have contributed immeasurably to our
successes. Police departments, community groups and
local government agencies have long supported LVHHN
programs and initiatives. Indeed, this medical
model, because of its broad application and support
of community policing principles, can be replicated
in most communities as a prescription for community
policing success.
Website: http://www.prcpi.com
Phone: (610) 402-2589
Fax: (610) 402-2470
Tennessee RCPI
The
University of Tennessee RCPI is a Regional Community
Policing Institute (RCPI) funded by a grant from the
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community
Oriented Policing Services (COPS). The RCPI, one of
more than 27 RCPIs nationwide, is a partnership
among the City of Knoxville Police Department,
Knoxville's Police Advisory and Review Committee,
and the University of Tennessee’s Institute for
Public Service.
Website: http://www.leic.tennessee.edu/rcpi.htm
Phone: (888) 847-2673
Fax: (865) 215-1345
Texas RCPI
The
Texas Regional Center for Policing Innovation is
committed to promoting policing innovation
throughout the state and nation, specifically
addressing the integration of crime-specific
strategies into policing innovation. Through
training opportunities and the dissemination of
information the Center and its partners foster
police-community partnerships leading to innovative
methods of reducing crime and improving neighborhood
safety. The Center provides community policing
education and technical assistance in an effort to
instill the community policing philosophy into law
enforcement and community groups.
Website: http://www.cjcenter.org/trcpi
Phone: (936) 294-3747
Fax: (936) 438-8175
Tri-State RCPI
Tri-State
Regional Community Policing Institute was
established in 1997, funded by a federal Cooperative
Training Agreement from the Office of Community
Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in Washington, DC.
Since that time we have trained more than 34,000
police, government, and community representatives in
this concept. The Institute was formed as a
partnership between the Great Oaks Institute of
Technology and Career Development, The Cincinnati
Police Department, The National Conference for
Community Justice and the Ohio Crime Prevention
Association.
Website: http://www.tri-statercpi.org
Phone: (513) 771-0782
Fax: (513) 771-0780
Upper Midwest Community Policing Institute
The
Upper Midwest Community Policing Institute is
committed to the development and strengthening of
effective policing based on the principles of
ethical decision making, community partnerships and
collaborative problem solving.
Website: http://www.umcpi.org
Phone: (651) 917-2255
Fax: (651) 917-2253
Virginia RCPI
The
mission of VCPI is to advance community policing in
order to build safer communities and improve the
quality of life throughout the Commonwealth of
Virginia. The institute provides training and
technical assistance for Virginia's law enforcement
officials and communities that help to build
integrated, proactive approaches to community
policing initiatives. This is accomplished through
the application of crime prevention techniques,
problem solving strategies, and establishment of
community partnerships.
VCPI is a statewide resource for law enforcement,
citizens, local government officials, and others
interested in community policing. Community policing
is intended to reduce crime and disorder through a
working partnership between law enforcement and
communities, in which problems can be identified and
solved.
Website: http://www.vcpionline.org
Phone: (804) 644-0899
Fax: (804) 644-0309
Western Regional Institute for Community Oriented Public Safety
The
WRICOPS mission is to provide an integrated approach
to the adoption of the community policing philosophy
throughout the five-state region of Idaho, Montana,
South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming. We strive to
advance the field of community oriented public
safety through the advancement of innovative
practices and enhance the knowledge and professional
practice in areas of mutual interest and concern,
serving the needs of the members within the region,
and the field of public safety beyond our borders.
Website: http://www.spokane.wsu.edu/research&service/wricops/index.asp
Phone: (509) 358-7949
Fax: (509) 358-7900
West Virginia RCPI
The
WV RCPI strive to provide quality community-oriented
policing training and technical assistance; Enhance
the public safety and citizen perception of public
policing as the primary method for delivery safety
services; Become a national source of information on
the topic state-wide implementation.
Website: http://www.wvstateu.edu/rcpi/
Phone: (877) 333-7268
Fax: (304) 766-3347
Western Community Policing Institute
The
mission of the Western Community Policing Institute
is to improve the interaction and cooperation
between police, community, and government to promote
the development of community-based partnerships and
problem solving to prevent crime, reduce the fear of
crime, and enhance the quality of life throughout
the region.
Website: http://www.westernrcpi.com
Phone: (877) 601-6866
Fax: (503) 751-4009
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