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What is a Citizen Patrol?

Home Park Citizen Patrol was formed in late 2005. Citizen patrols seek to work with local government to improve public safety and quality of life in their communities. The Omaha Coalition of Citizens Patrols is comprised of volunteer representatives from all of the over thirty citizen patrols in the Omaha area, with a mission to promote the formation, training, collaboration and continued improvement of citizen patrols throughout Omaha and the surrounding area.

The Omaha Coalition of Citizens Patrols, (OCCP) is made up of thirty six individual neighborhood citizen patrols. Each of the four Omaha Police Department precincts have citizen patrols with the Northwest having the most, fourteen. There are about one thousand patrol volunteers who gave nearly twenty thousand hours of their time to make Omaha a safer place to live. Generally, patrols are started as a response to increased criminal activity in a given area. After you start a patrol, you should expect that activity to decrease substantially, if not entirely. Patrols drive around their neighborhood in an effort to show a visible presence and send the message that crime and inappropriate activity will not be tolerated in this area. Typically, citizens patrol their neighborhood at night and especially on weekend nights. OCCP personnel are trained by The Omaha Police Department and OCCP's training staff in a four hour session. The volunteers are trained to observe and report but NEVER confront. We are not police officers and volunteers are required to sign an agreement that says, in part, the patroller will not carry a weapon or anything that resembles a weapon, they will not confront verbally or physically, and they understand that they will not attempt to arrest anyone.

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