Police Reserves and Volunteers Enhancing Organizational Effectiveness and Public Trust

Reductions in police department funding have raised the importance of volunteers in enhancing organizational performance, improving community trust and confidence, and at times accomplishing basic tasks to maintain public safety and security. During a period when police administrators are asked to do more with less, and to engage in smarter, community-oriented policing, citizen volunteers are an invaluable resource. Police Reserves and Volunteers is an invaluable primer for those looking to understand the benefits and challenges involved in the use of the volunteers within global law enforcement agencies. Using cases from a range of specialists and precincts, this edited volume provides a rare window into police administration from the state legislation that regulates police reserves in California to the local models observed in many counties and cities across the United States. Police Reserves and Volunteers offers volunteers, local elected officials, and law enforcement straightforward guidelines to enhance police goals and build public trust in local communities.

Part 1: Introduction Preface Chapter One: Introduction: The Obvious Need for Volunteers in Policy James F. Albrecht Chapter Two: Volunteers in Policing in the USA Robert Hanser, Mkay Bonner and Mark Johnson Chapter Three: The Rewards and Challenges of Using Volunteers in Policing Benjamin Dobrin, Adam Dobrin and April Christman Part 2: Police Volunteer Programs in the USA Chapter Four: Police Auxiliaries in Framingham, Massachusetts Marc Spigel Chapter Five: An Abundance of Auxiliary Police and Volunteer Personnel in the NYPD James F. Albrecht Chapter Six: The Florida Highway Patrol Auxiliary Steven Sheffer Chapter Seven: The Portsmouth (Virginia) Police Department Auxiliary Unit Ron Hyman Chapter Eight: Civic Volunteerism in Orange County, Florida: Sworn Police Reserves in a Metropolitan Sheriff’s Office Ross Wolf Chapter Nine: Police Volunteers Can Effectively Impact Mass Casualty Incidents: The Aurora (Colorado) Police Department Faced the Challenge James F. Albrecht Chapter Ten: "Doing More with Less" – The Professional Model of the Los Angeles Police Department Mkay Bonner, Mark Johnson and Robert Hanser Chapter Eleven: Volunteering and Law Enforcement in the Carson City (Nevada) Sheriff’s Office Colleen Morin and Robert Morin Part 3: Police Volunteer Programs: Global Perspectives Chapter Twelve: Auxiliary and Reserve Constables in Canada: Sixty Years of Community Service Rick Parent Chapter Thirteen: The Auxiliary Police in Hungary Pal Kardos and Bea Szoke Chapter Fourteen: Using Police Reserves to support the South African Police Service Christiaan Bezuidenhout Chapter Fifteen: The Reserve Police Force in the Netherlands Paula Torn and Ronald Verbiest Chapter Sixteen: Effectively using Police Volunteers in the "Little Red Dot" – Singapore Wayne Koo and Desmond Tan Chapter Seventeen: Volunteer Policing in Israel Charles Lieberman Chapter Eighteen: A ‘Special’ Kind of Policing: Volunteer Policing in England and Wales Carol Borland-Jones & Ross Wolf Part 4: Police Volunteers and Other Deployment Options Chapter Nineteen: The Police Community Service Officer in the United Kingdom: A Midpoint between Career and Volunteer Officers Annette Crisp Chapter Twenty: Part-Time and Reserve Law Enforcement: the Texas Experience Nate Moran and Robert Hanser Chapter Twenty-One: The NYPD’s Retiree Mobilization Plan: Keeping Retired Officers Active Theresa Tobin Part 5: Personal Reflection and Insight Chapter Twenty- Two: The Enchanting and Captivating Story of an Essex (UK) Special Constable George Cook Part 6: Using Volunteers in Other Government Organizations Chapter Twenty-Three: Using Volunteers in the Correctional System Francis Olive III Chapter Twenty-Four: Federal Government Volunteers: the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Theresa Tobin Chapter Twenty-Five: Volunteers in American Firefighting Charles Jennings Chapter Twenty-Six: Volunteers in Emergency Medical Service in the United States John S. Young Part 7: Conclusion Chapter Twenty-Seven: Using Volunteers in Policing: Final Thoughts and Recommendations James F. Albrecht

James "Jimmy" F. Albrecht is a professor of criminal justice and homeland security at Pace University in New York City. Professor Albrecht has 25 years of front-line law enforcement experience, and had previously held a number of executive positions including police chief of criminal investigations in the joint European Union/U.S. (EULEX) Police in Kosovo (former Yugoslavia). He retired as NYPD captain and regional commander after serving 22 years, which included direct response to the tragic September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. He received his Ph.D. in criminal justice at the University of New Haven (Connecticut).