CSAFE
(Collaborative Supervision and Focused Enforcement)
Community Highlights
- The Queen Anne's County CSAFE Community includes the towns of Grasonville, Chester, and Stevensville. These towns have been historically separated by the Kent Narrows Bridge. The HotSpot Initiative now renamed CSAFE has brought these three communities together.
- Natural Resources Police have joined forces with Queen Anne's County Sheriff's Office and Maryland State Police. The Queen Anne's County Department of Animal Control has partnered with Queen Anne's County Sheriff's Office. These new partnerships create an even greater crime fighting base.
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. - ETHIOPIA - During 1998 the CSAFE Community accounted for a large portion of the total violent crime, but crime is down in the CSAFE Community. A reduction in property thefts by 27 incidents, reduction in Breaking & Entering by 22 incidents and reduction in auto thefts by 3 incidents.
Hope is the pillar of the world. - KANURI - Safety issues continue to center around open air drug dealing and substance abuse. We have developed a summer program for each community and are anxious to begin the school year with new after school programs being implemented for each community. We have a quarterly newsletter to keep the community up to date. We had a very successful "Family Nite Out" and recently a "Block Party" that attracted over 300 community members. We know these events will become an annual attraction.
- 1999's process involved over 100 citizens attending the monthly potluck dinners. At each meeting various community issues were addressed and the entire community continues to play a critical role in making this HotSpot so successful.
Success is never a destination; it's a journey. - SATENIG ST.MARIE
AN INITIATIVE OF THE
CABINET COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL AND JUVENILE JUSTICE
GOVERNOR ROBERT ERLICH
Community Mobilization |
Activities for the community; National Night Out, Family Nite Out, Block Party, Lock-In Party for children, continuing the community newsletters. |
Community Policing |
Enhanced partnership with Queen Anne's County Sheriff's Office, Maryland State Police and Department of Natural Resources Police partner for enhancing the police protection and enforcement in the HotSpot Community. |
Community Probation |
Increased supervision to offenders and partnership with Queen Anne's County Sheriff's Office, Department of Natural Resources Police and Maryland State Police. |
Nuisance Abatement |
Partnership between Queen Anne's County Sheriff's Office and Animal Control to enforce the increasing problem of pitbulls and other dangerous animals. Special enforcement programs to identify and remove guns and drugs from Queen Anne's County HotSpot Community. |
Youth Prevention |
Partnership with Parks & Recreation, Board of Education, Grasonville Community Center, Union Wesley Church and Queen Anne's County Health Department to provide an after-school program and a summer program in Grasonville and Chester. |
Coordination |
Continue Coordinator position- position is to monitor elements and continue to bring resources and develop new partnerships to enhance the community and keep the community informed. |
Community Prosecution |
Continue Community awareness and implement a Juvenile Court System where juvenile that commit minor crimes will be tried and sentenced by their peers. |
Juvenile Intervention |
Continue beginning stages of Project Attend under the Youth Prevention Element. Coordinating volunteers to assist in this program. |
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design |
Workshops to provide training to the community to identify lighting and other security issues. Submit a proposal to the Governor's Office on Crime Control & prevention for funding to implement projects. |
Victim Outreach |
Partnership with Queen Anne's County Sheriff's Office and the Mid-Shore Council on Family Violence and For All Seasons. Each advocacy group will have a victim coordinator at Family's First to provide additional services to victims and family members of victims of Domestic Violence and victims of other violent crimes.. |
Community Support for Addiction Recovery |
Offering support to recovering alcoholics and addicts as well as prevention activities and early intervention through counselors available at Family's First. Institute the One Church~One Addict program in the HotSpot Community. |
Housing & Business Revitalization |
Identify houses and buildings that are need of rehabilitation and/or demolition, contacting owners of the identified properties to assist them in bringing the property up to code. |
Queen Anne's County Hot Spots Home Page
Mail the CSAFE Coordinator
Or you can Call the Coordinator at 410-758-0770 ext.1277.