An organization called Careers in Criminal Justice has a website and that website has a blog called Justice City, USA which has named the Eden Prairie’s Police Department Blog one of America’s Top 50 Criminal Justice and Criminology Blogs! It’s a very nice recognition of the effort our Police Department makes to communicate with our residents in Eden Prairie.
The Police Department blog is about a year old. It features a variety of topics and people in the Police Department and was developed in order to keep residents informed about the many things the Police Department does to keep the City safe. It serves as a good tool to communicate safety tips, department news and police information. We’ve got to engage the community for the community’s sake because there really is no way that 65,000 people (the number of people in our city) can be policed by 95 people (the number of people in our Police Department) unless the 65,000 trust and respect the 95. There are many ways to develop that level of trust and respect. One of them is to communicate. That’s really what this blog is all about.
In addition to postings attributed to specific members of the Department, there is a Project Coordinator named Sonja Ritchie Roy, who has really taken on the responsibility to write, edit and research the majority of the blog posts. She does a great job with it. A natural. If you’ve never dropped in on the EPPD blog before, you can do it right here at this link: Click here to check it out!
To read Justice City, USA’s thoughts about the blog, click here.
Congratulations!
