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2023 Seattle Police Department’s “Before the Badge” Community-Police Dialogues

Sign-up is now open for the 2023 Seattle Police Department’s “Before the Badge” Community-Police DialoguesEast Precinct Dialogue is coming up on Wednesday – March 22, 2023! North Precinct Dialogue is on Monday – March 27th!

The dialogues will be conducted by the SPD Micro-Community Policing Plans Research team and held virtually via Zoom on designated dates by precinct. The dialogues offer the opportunity for community members to meet with and engage in conversation with new Seattle Police Recruits who are completing the SPD “Before the Badge” training which is a 45-Day Training that newly hired SPD recruits take prior to  Law Enforcement Academy Training Program. To sign-up to participate in one or more dialogues, go to: https://www.publicsafetysurvey.org/index.html

Are you interested in?

-Meeting new Seattle Police Recruits and learning about who they are, why they entered policing, and their thoughts and ideas about how to improve public safety in Seattle?

-Helping new SPD recruits learn about Seattle precincts and neighborhoods? 

-Sharing your real-time public safety concerns with the new SPD recruits so they can better understand quality of life-related public safety issues communities face?

-Understanding how community members can work creatively and in concrete ways with new SPD recruits to improve public safety in Seattle?

To learn about the SPD MCPP go to:

https://www.seattle.gov/police/information-and-data/mcpp-about

To learn about the SPD “Before the Badge” training program, go to:

https://www.seattle.gov/police/community-policing/before-the-badge