Crime Prevention / Comunity Relations
Citadel Mall Police Substation - 843-769-7407
The Crime Prevention office works to educate the public on matters of Crime Prevention and Safety through the media, public speaking engagements, web-site, and direct communications with more than a hundred and fifty neighborhood associations and apartment communities.
The Crime Prevention Unit consists of one Crime Prevention Specialist assisted by seasonal interns.
The Crime Prevention Specialist (CPS) is Sgt. Trevor Shelor. Having served the department since 1990, he has been the CPS since June of 2002. Sgt. Shelor is an Academy certified Instructor and is certified by South Carolina’s State Association of Crime Prevention Officers (SACPO) and the International Society of Crime Prevention Practitioners (ISCPP).
The Crime Prevention office is tasked with educating the Public to recognize their risk of crime, advising them what measures can be taken to reduce their risks, and motivating citizens to enact those measures.
The term “Hardening-the-Target” is used, which means to enact measures to make it difficult for a criminal to commit his planned crime. Target Hardening is meant to discourage or deter a would-be robber/burglar/thief by increasing HIS RISK of being seen, being heard, or being caught during or after the crime. This can be done by individual citizens, as a group of neighbors, as a business, or as a whole community.
The Crime Prevention office approaches these tasks by offering free information and services. These include residential and business security surveys, attendance to public events, and public speaking engagements for youth, adults, neighborhoods, businesses, etc. The CPD Law Enforcement Explorer Post also assists in these endeavors (see "Explorer Post 11").
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