Kansas City Police Department Street Narcotics Unit

This is a special police unit designed to break into crack houses. The objective is to reduce drug-related crime and improve public order.
An undercover police officer or confidential informant, under the supervision of an undercover officer, enters the premises with the purpose of purchasing the drug with marked money. If the purchase is successful, the drugs are seized, and a search and seizure warrant is issued for the premises. The warrant may be issued within ten days.

Juvenile Justice Assessment Planning Referral Placement (JARPP)

This is a 3-day training program for probation supervisors who monitor adolescent offenders. The program seeks to identify mental health and substance use needs through evidence-based practices in order to increase and improve adolescents’ access to community-based clinical services.
The curriculum includes a series of standardized tools, treatment guidelines based on assessment results, and referral procedures to service providers.
Training days are structured as follows:

Neighborhood Watch

This is a three-pronged policing strategy:
1) Residents who are alert to criminal activity and willing to report their suspicions to authorities;
2) Signage of private property; and
3) Home security questionnaires.
Monthly bulletins were prepared and meetings were convened among police officers, community leaders, and residents interested in reporting crimes in the designated areas and discussing actions to improve the strategies.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) for Substance Abuse Issues of Juveniles in a State Facility

This strategy is based on motivational interviewing and aimed at people who use psychoactive substances. The method uses counseling, collaborative, client-centered, and goal-oriented communication to promote behavioral change. It seeks to identify ambivalence towards behavioral change and encourage an internalization of the client’s desire to change.

Brief Motivational Interviewing for Alcohol Use (Incarcerated Women)

This is an alcohol treatment intervention for women deprived of their liberty who are being released from prison. The aim is to reduce alcohol consumption and recidivism.
The program consists of two individual motivational interviews: one before release, in which goals and strategies for maintaining abstinence are developed, and another one month after returning to the community, in which progress and the need to set new goals are assessed.

Predictive Intelligence Led Operational Targeting (PILOT)

This is a predictive policing strategy that directs special operations to small property crime-prone locations. The objective of the program is to prevent an increase in crime.
The program consists of two types of activities:
1) Identifying on a monthly basis the areas that are most prone to property crime based on past property crime rates, juvenile arrest records, emergency calls, and seasonal variation patterns; and
2) Hiring additional police forces to conduct various police interventions in the identified areas.

Mental Health Services Continuum Program (CA)

This is a program for monitoring people aged between 30 and 45 who have mental health problems and are on probation.
It is divided into five phases:
1) Mental health assessment before participants go on probation;
2) Eligibility to receive parole benefits and participate in the program;
3) Post-release mental health treatment;
4) Continuity of care started in prison, linking the user to community probation services;
5) Extended assistance for reintegration into the community after release from parole.

Pacto Pelotas Pela Paz (Brazil)

The Pacto Pelotas pela Paz (Pact for Peace of the City of Pelotas) was an initiative of the Pelotas City Government, a city located in the extreme south of Brazil, involving all security forces, criminal justice institutions, municipal departments and civil society leaders, with technical assistance from the Instituto Cidade Segura..

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