Publications

Working Together: Assessing Organizational Readiness for Collaboration. December 2000.

Synopsis: This work describes a diagnostic approach to appraise an organization's readiness to participate in an inter-agency public safety alliance. The document contains an overview of an assessment process, a description of the criteria underlying the process and a diagnostic instrument to assist with the evaluation of an organization's current capacity to engage in inter-agency collaborations.

Working Together: A Framework for Developing Inter-Agency Public Safety Alliances. December 2000.

Synopsis: This monograph picks up where the assessment process ends. Jurisdictions which have completed the diagnostic phase, and found that their infra-structure is "in good shape" can use the framework outlined in "Assessing Organizational Readiness for Collaboration: to begin the actual work of developing a public safety alliance.

Knoxville Public Safety Collaborative. Teleconference Video.

Synopsis: The video can be used by jurisdictions as a tool to introduce the concept of inter-agency alliances to stakeholders in their communities.

Knoxville Police Department’s Advancing Community Policing Demonstration Center Grant Evaluation. August 2001. University of Tennessee College of Social Work Office of Research and Public Service

Synopsis: This document is a comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness of the Knoxville Public Safety Collaborative (KPSC) by the University of Tennessee’s College of Social Work, Office of Research and Public Service. The evaluation covers the 30-month period from September 1998 through February 2001.

Please contact the KPSC office to obtain a copy of these publications or video materials.

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"Police officers know that even a single repeat offender is capable of committing a significant number of crimes, especially if he is not properly supervised in the community. Through this partnership patrol officers have a direct say in how offenders are monitored, we know the conditions of their community supervision orders, and we are part of a team of professionals who know how to assure that offenders comply with those orders. The Collaborative helps us to do one of the most important parts of police work - preventing crimes from happening in the first place".

Officer Patty Tipton,
Knoxville Police Department