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Bullhead City Police describe community policing, mobile crisis unit and PACT Academy
Summary
Police officials highlighted constitutional and community-oriented policing, the BackUP mobile crisis unit for mental-health response, and the Police and Citizens Together (PACT) Academy that offers behind-the-scenes tours and training to residents.
Chief Robert Treves (as identified in the presentation) described the Bullhead City Police Department's approach to community policing and said the department aims to provide services that match citizen expectations by getting out into the community and listening. “Our mission here is to make sure that, we provide the service that the citizens want and deserve by getting out into the community and listening to them, carrying what they want out of their police department, and then changing our practices accordingly,” Treves said.
The presentation emphasized "constitutional policing," which the chief described as keeping constitutional principles at the forefront of departmental decisions and evaluating how courts have interpreted those principles.
Officials outlined three public-facing programs. BackUP (Bullhead Area Community Crisis Unification Program) is a mobile crisis unit intended to respond to people in acute mental-health crises so law enforcement and EMS can return to other duties once BackUP staff have taken command of a scene when it is safe. The video said the unit serves the general service area of Bullhead City and is geared to assist public safety personnel with on-scene crisis management.
The PACT Academy (Police And Citizens Together) provides residents a hands-on look at the department, including tours of the police department and 911 dispatch, a range demonstration and a forensics lab tour where participants see evidence-processing procedures.
Officials also described community-oriented policing unit activities such as waterway patrols, off-highway-vehicle patrols in desert areas to reach unsheltered people and outreach work. The presentation stressed outreach to schools during back-to-school weeks and described officers stopping in center lanes to notify drivers that school was back in session while giving officers an opportunity to interact with students.
No formal policy changes or votes were announced; the video reiterated ongoing programs and outreach efforts.
