Public-Private Policing Partnerships: The Next Big Thing in Policing

• In Event: Policing Impact on Collective Efficacy and Well-being in Communities

Abstract

This paper is an evaluation of a project in Orange County, Florida where the local sheriffs office is working in partnership with the University and a private policing firm to reduce crime, fear and disorder in to selected high crime neighborhoods.

For this project, asset forfeiture funds were used to contract with a national private policing agency to supplement police patrol in two diverse criminogenic neighborhoods. A community survey was completed and data from the community was joined with official data to determine the effectiveness of this program and whether it will continued and/or expanded.

Authors

• Stephen T. Holmes, University of Central Florida

• Ross Wolf, University of Central Florida

• Thomas Baker, University of Central Florida