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The Memphis Police Department
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Memphis Downtown Entertainment Area
Public Safety Assessment
and Strategic Plan
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a safe downtown
Ensuring safety for residents, workers, and visitors in Downtown is a priority for the Center City Commission.
In 2000, the CCC initiated the creation of a Safety and Traffic Task Force made up of stakeholders from the private and public sectors, including ranking officials from the Memphis Police Department. The Task Force was originally established to coordinate special event planning related to traffic flow, crowd management, and crime control. The pro-active disposition of the Task Force eventually led it to consider strategic planning for all downtown activities.
In 2002, Task Force participants published the Memphis Downtown Entertainment Area Public Safety Assessment and Strategic Plan. The plan, based on surveys of the people who live and work downtown, identified ten primary safety issues and recommended a series of strategies to be implemented by the organizations with the most direct impact on public safety.
By 2003, the plan’s implementation was well underway, including two of the most critical strategies. The Memphis Police Department created an Entertainment District Unit made up of 40 officers with special training in crowd management, traffic control, community policing, and entertainment area policing. Also, the Center City Commission hired a Public Safety Coordinator to help build relationships between businesses, residents, and the police department and to help ensure that public safety needs are met as effectively as possible.
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