Citizens Police Academy

Throughout the nation, police departments continually work to establish and maintain a strong feeling of trust and cooperation between the agency and the community they serve. Society expects and deserves to be able to trust and have confidence in their police forces ability to make them feel safe and secure in their neighborhood.  

The Loveland Police Department is no different than many other police departments, in that we are required to provide these services in a continuously changing environment. As growth takes place, the need to keep up with services also increases. Governments only have so many recourses to divide between departments. Due to this fact, police departments have to learn how to use their resources more efficiently.

One way to use resources more efficiently is to get the community involved in the policing and problem solving efforts of their police department and to help educate the citizens of the community. The Loveland Police Department hosted its 2009 Citizens Police Academy, in the fall of 2009. The academy is held every Thursday evening at the Police Institute from 6:30-9:30 p.m. for ten weeks. During these sessions, employees from the police department and other criminal justice agencies speak on various topics such as Traffic and DUI, Criminal Investigation and Use of Force. This is a great opportunity for the citizens of this community to interact with their police department and to be educated as to what is going on in their community. Through these sessions, the citizens of Loveland will see how their police department is addressing criminal justice and quality of life issues.

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