Program areas at Greater Austin Crime Commission
Law Enforcement and First Responder Training and Support Initiatives: This program provides training, equipment and funding support for agencies and departments experiencing budget shortfalls and/or specialized needs. Participating organizations include police, fire. EMS, county sheriffs, FBI and other first responder organizations.
Neighborhood Network-Municipal Public Safety Initiative: This program provides data from a variety of sources (surveys, neighborhood watch programs, public crime statistics etc.) and educational resources advocating for anti-crime initiatives within the Austin area. The program includes some lobby activity between the organization and the members of the Austin City Council advocating for increase public/fire/EMS sworn and civilian positions and other related first responder needs during the city budget cycle discussion and council and task force hearings.
Public Safety Series and Community Coalition Briefings: This programs includes an annual 9-11 Memorial event, public safety coalition and community anti-crime initiatives that feature public safety and law enforcement leaders combined with policy experts that focus on a variety of anti-crime and community public safety topics.
Law Enforcement Patrol Staffing Research and Applicable Model Design-Phase One: Research for use in law enforcement agencies on empirical data and machine learning staffing models while also requiring value-based survey data to provide insight into patrol staffing requirements for adequate service on calls and the activities officers undertake when not working on calls for service. The model will be designed in Phase Two to reflect the need to address proactive patrol, establishing police presence in high crime or high calls for service areas, and community policing.
Austin Fire Foundation: Program that supports issues for first responders such as cancer risk awareness, first responder professional development opportunities, public fire awareness campaigns.