Blog 18: Answer 2

1) My essential question is, how can a deputy encourage a positive community relation?

2) My first answer was the role that patrol officers had with the community.

3) My second answer is the role of the communication officer.

4) A communication officer's role is to communicate with the community. They do so through talking with the community at community gatherings. Some communication officers will visit schools and talk to the kids. Other communication officers would run meetings with the community.

5) A printed out source that best supports my answer is an article that describes what the neighborhood watch meetings have with the community and communication officer.

6) Another source that will support my answer are the interviews I had with Deputy Scheller and Deputy Denver, who are the communication officers for Rowland Heights and Diamond Bar.

7) This all comes together because most people usually come in contact with law enforcement on a negative note. However, a communication officers role is to help build a bond with the community.