The Arizona Regional Community Policing Institute was established in 1997 and funded through the United States Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) with the purpose of institutionalizing community policing philosophies throughout the State of Arizona.

AZRCPI is a partnership of the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police (AACOP), Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board (AZPOST), Arizona Sheriff’s Association (ASA), Arizona State University (ASU), Arizona Fraternal Orders of Police (AFOP), Gilbert, Mesa, Phoenix, Surprise, and Tucson Police Departments, Phoenix Greater Urban League, Neighborhood Activists Inter-Linked Empowerment Movement (NAILEM). All of the classes offered are AZPOST certified for continuing education credit. All classes are available to sworn and civilian members of any criminal justice agency, as well as interested community members.

Website: http://www.azpost.state.az.us/azrcpi/web site - updated june 2005.htm

Phone: (602) 223-2560

Fax: (602) 244-0477

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The Regional Community Policing Institute - California (RCPI-CA) is a partnership of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles, and Rio Hondo Community College. It is located at the Sheriff's Training Academy in Whittier, CA.

Website: http://www.rcpi-ca.org

Phone: (800) 659-8985

Fax: (562) 941-7310

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The Carolinas Institute for Community Policing (CICP) is dedicated to providing community-based training and educational experiences that will effectively identify, address, and resolve problems to enhance the quality of life in North and South Carolina. CICP is unique among the Regional Community Policing Institute (RCPI) Network in that it is the only RCPI offering courses in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for crime analysis and community policing. CICP is committed to building partnerships between local, state, and federal law enforcement; government agencies; and community organizations. CICP also specializes in current training demands including: Ethics and Integrity, Human Trafficking, Counter Terrorism, DNA, Gang Awareness, Intro and Applied Community Problem Solving, Spanglish for LE, and Racial/Bias Based Profiling.

Website: http://www.cicp.org

Phone: (877) 726-0555

Fax: (864) 250-8657

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The Colorado Regional Community Policing Institute was created by the Colorado Department of Public Safety, Division of Criminal Justice, in 1997 and is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS). The major emphasis of the Colorado RCPI is training. We offer no-cost training for law enforcement agencies and communities to help provide officers and communities the tools to address the underlying causes of crime, impact public safety issues and improve the quality of life for the citizens of Colorado.

Website: http://dcj.state.co.us/crcpi

Phone: (303) 239-4405

Fax: (303) 239-4552

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The Florida Regional Community Policing Institute (RCPI) at St. Petersburg College provides progressive public safety training in Florida, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Cutting edge topics include: planning and responding to WMD incidents, human trafficking, ethics and integrity, sexual predator/offender awareness, dealing with the mentally ill, and problem solving strategies in community policing. Many of these courses are available online. Award-winning interactive school safety CD-ROMs and videos, written for today’s young people, are available nationwide to schools, law enforcement and youth organizations.

Website: http://cop.spcollege.edu

Phone: (727) 341-4581

Fax: (727) 341-4524

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The Gulf States Regional Center for Public Safety Innovations is dedicated to building partnerships between law enforcement agencies, government, and community organizations to facilitate the implementation of Public Safety Initiatives.  Our goal is to enhance public safety and to improve the quality of life in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.

Website: http://www.gsrcpi.org

Phone: (888) 283-0966

Fax: (318) 357-6964

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The mission of the Regional Institute for Community Policing (RICP) is to promote public safety as a philosophy and practice for all members of a Community. It is through partnerships and community engagement, organizational change and transformation, innovative approaches to problem solving, non-traditional thinking, strong community-based leadership and quality technical assistance that the essence of community policing is redefined and applied in order to enhance the quality of life in
Illinois.

The RICP attempts to find solutions to community problems through partnerships, facilitation and innovative problem solving strategies. Founded in 1997, the RICP is an alliance between the University of Illinois, the Illinois State Police and the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority. Upon this foundation, the RICP has expanded its partners to include the Illinois Terrorism Task Force, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals as well as other public and private organizations.

The RICP is part of the University of Illinois and is affiliated with the Institute of Government and Public Affairs (IGPA). IGPA works to improve the quality of government at all levels through research and public service. Utilizing the resources of its partners, the RICP examines such issues as: all-hazard preparedness; domestic violence; animal abuse; and attempts to reduce such problems by utilizing current technologies with critical thinking. By bringing diversity to the public policy platform, together the RICP and IGPA put theory into practice. Offering sound research, training and technical assistance to public decision makers increases body of knowledge along with the learning experience.

Website: http://ricp.uis.edu

Phone: (877) 864-7427

Fax: (217) 206-6063

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The Institute for Public Safety Partnerships is a cooperative effort between community organizations, police agencies, educational institutions, and other governmental agencies. It is dedicated to enhancing the capacities of communities, police, and other agencies to work together, and to building safer and healthier communities through a prevention oriented approach to policing. The Institute is founded on the following principles:

• Citizens, policing agencies, community associations, and other government agencies share responsibility for public safety
• Problem solving for public safety occurs at multiple levels, from local neighborhoods to community-wide areas, organizations, and agencies
• Education and training-of police, community, and government together-is a key vehicle for fostering safer communities
• Knowledge and trust are built on collaboration and information sharing; information sharing can be improved with enhanced technology

Website: http://www.ipsp.us

Phone: (312) 355-1755

Fax: (312) 355-1398

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The Indiana Regional Community Policing Institute (RCPI) exists to develop, promote, and provide comprehensive, innovative educational policing strategies, for law enforcement agencies and community, in order to enhance the quality of life throughout the Indiana region.

Website: http://www.indianareccp.org

Phone: (877) 739-7274

Fax: (260) 745-9966

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The Kansas RCPI provides training and technical assistance to law enforcement in Kansas and Nebraska. The primary target audience is small and rural agencies and training topics include counterterrorism, agriterrorism, internet crimes against children, DNA, Human Trafficking, Sexual Predators, and a number of other current issues. The RCPI is made up of a partnership of the P.O.S.T.s and U.S. Attorneys in both states, as well as, a number of other law enforcement and community-based organizations. Since its inception, it has responded to the particular needs of the service region and will continue to do so.

Website: http://www.wichita.edu/rcpi

Phone: (888) 877-0585

Fax: (316) 978-3345

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The mission of the Kentucky RCPI is to encourage and enhance the implementation of community policing in Kentucky in order to create safer communities through training and technical assistance. Training is centered on the development and delivery of quality courses and workshops for police agencies and citizens throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Website: http://www.kycops.org

Phone: (859) 622-2362

Fax: (859) 622-5879

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The Maine Institute for Public Safety Innovation (MIPSI) is a division of The University of Maine at Augusta. Our mission is to deliver education, training and technical assistance on the Community Oriented Policing philosophy, components, and strategies.

MIPSI is positioned as a central resource for neighborhoods, communities, and law enforcement agencies in the dissemination of Community Policing information.

Website: http://www.uma.edu/MIPSI.html

Phone: (800) 734-2991

Fax: (207) 621-3301

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The Michigan Regional Community Policing Institute (RCPI) is one Institute in a national network of Institutes, charged with institutionalizing the principles of community policing in law enforcement agencies through innovative community policing training and technical assistance. RCPI’s have the latitude to experiment with new ideas that challenge and improve traditional training curricula, and to develop new curricula to support community policing and sustain it into the future.

Website: http://www.cj.msu.edu/~outreach/rcpi

Phone: (517) 355-9648

Fax: (517) 432-0727

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The mission of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Community Policing Institute (MARCPI) is to support law enforcement agencies and their communities in fostering police integrity and ethics through quality education and training, interagency cooperation and collaboration, quality leadership, and commitment to community policing. Further, it is the mission of the Institute to foster lasting partnerships among law enforcement and other government agencies, community organizations, educational institutions, non-profit agencies, businesses and industries, and other entities to improve police service and the viability and well-being of neighborhoods. MARCPI provides community policing services to the Mid-Atlantic region. This region includes: Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia.

Website: http://marcpi.jhu.edu/marcpi

Phone: (410) 516-9898

Fax: (410) 290-1061

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The Missouri Western State University-Regional Community Policing Institute will provide, professional and interactive community policing training and technical assistance to law enforcement agencies, business and community organizations, and citizens throughout the state of Missouri. MWSU-RCPI will utilize a variety of traditional and innovative educational and training delivery methods to provide accessibility to Institute services to all regions of Missouri. The MWSU-RCPI will work collaborative with its partner organizations to facilitate the implementation of the concepts and philosophy of community problem solving as a primary means of addressing crime and disorder to improve the overall quality of life for citizens of Missouri.

Website: http://www.missouriwestern.edu/rcpi

Phone: (816) 271-5601

Fax: (816) 271-5603

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RCPI-NE is a change agent dedicated to educating both police officers and community members about the philosophy and implementation of community policing. Guided by an exacting set of values, RCPI-NE offers training and follows up with technical assistance to help citizens, officials and police departments put community policing to work to solve problems and prevent crime.

Website: http://www.rcpi.neu.edu

Phone: (617) 373-7098

Fax: (617) 373-7496

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The New York - New Jersey Regional Center for Public Safety Innovations seeks to engage police and community (citizens, government, private organizations and businesses) in active collaboration to reduce crime, help maintain order and improve the quality of life throughout the states of New York and New Jersey and their diverse communities. The Institute draws on the collective talents of law enforcement and communities in order to strengthen the ability of a democratic society to police itself and thereby promote freedom for all stakeholders within our neighborhoods and beyond.

Website: http://www.nynjrcpi.com

Phone: (212) 237-8572

Fax: (212) 237-8637

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The Oklahoma Regional Community Policing Institute's mission is to enable all community members, law enforcement, government officials, community leaders and merchants, educational professionals and students, to see themselves as stakeholders in building a safer Oklahoma. The community policing philosophy encourages a broader understanding between citizens and law enforcement, and focuses on a shared responsibility in preventing crime and making neighborhoods safer.

Website: http://www.orcpi.com

Phone: (405) 671-8742

Fax: (405) 671-8745

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The Pennsylvania Regional Community Policing Institute, with offices in Allentown and Pittsburgh, is funded by the United States Department of Justice and managed by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (OCOPS), in cooperation with ALERT Partnership, Bethlehem Police Department, Lehigh Valley Hospital Health Network and Lehigh University. Our unique partnership is based on the Community Health Model with LVHHN as lead agency. The LVHHN defines its community role beyond reacting to individual medical needs. It embraces as its organizational philosophy community health and well being. As such, its vast resources and community programs have contributed immeasurably to our successes. Police departments, community groups and local government agencies have long supported LVHHN programs and initiatives. Indeed, this medical model, because of its broad application and support of community policing principles, can be replicated in most communities as a prescription for community policing success.

Website: http://www.prcpi.com

Phone: (610) 969-2589

Fax: (610) 969-2470

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The University of Tennessee RCPI is a Regional Community Policing Institute (RCPI) funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS). The RCPI, one of more than 27 RCPIs nationwide, is a partnership among the City of Knoxville Police Department, Knoxville's Police Advisory and Review Committee, and the University of Tennessee’s Institute for Public Service.

Website: http://www.leic.tennessee.edu/

Phone: (866) 449-5342

Fax: (865) 946-3214

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The Texas Regional Center for Policing Innovation is committed to promoting policing innovation throughout the state and nation, with a particular emphasis on those groups historically excluded from community policing efforts. Through training opportunities and the dissemination of information the Center and its partners foster police-community partnerships leading to innovative methods of reducing crime and improving neighborhood safety. The Center provides community policing education and technical assistance in an effort to instill the community policing philosophy into law enforcement and community groups.

Website: http://www.cjcenter.org/trcpi

Phone: (936) 294-3747

Fax: (936) 438-8175

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Tri-State Regional Community Policing Institute was established in 1997, funded by a federal Cooperative Training Agreement from the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in Washington, DC. Since that time we have trained more than 34,000 police, government, and community representatives in this concept. The Institute was formed as a partnership between the Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Career Development, The Cincinnati Police Department, The National Conference for Community Justice and the Ohio Crime Prevention Association and services the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.

Website: http://www.tri-statercpi.org

Phone: (513) 771-0782

Fax: (513) 771-0780

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The Upper Midwest Community Policing Institute is committed to the development and strengthening of effective policing based on the principles of ethical decision making, community partnerships and collaborative problem solving.

Website: http://www.umcpi.org

Phone: (651) 917-2255

Fax: (651) 917-2253

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The mission of the Virginia Center for Policing Innovation is to advance community policing in order to build safer communities and improve the quality of life throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. The institute provides training and technical assistance for Virginia's law enforcement officials and communities that help to build integrated, proactive approaches to community policing initiatives. This is accomplished through the application of crime prevention techniques, problem solving strategies, and establishment of community partnerships.

VCPI is a statewide resource for law enforcement, citizens, local government officials, and others interested in community policing. Community policing is intended to reduce crime and disorder through a working partnership between law enforcement and communities, in which problems can be identified and solved.

Website: http://www.vcpionline.org

Phone: (804) 644-0899

Fax: (804) 644-0309

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The WRICOPS mission is to provide an integrated approach to the adoption of the community policing philosophy throughout the five-state region of Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming. We strive to advance the field of community oriented public safety through the advancement of innovative practices and enhance the knowledge and professional practice in areas of mutual interest and concern, serving the needs of the members within the region, and the field of public safety beyond our borders.

Website: http://www.wricops.org

Phone: (509) 358-7949

Fax: (509) 358-7933

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The West Virginia Regional Community Policing Institute, located on the campus of West Virginia State University, provides innovated public safety training and technical assistance to law enforcement, local government, and community members. The Institute feels a responsibility to bring law enforcement, local government, and community members together, collaboratively, to address issues of public concern and safety and to improve the quality of life of all West Virginia citizens. Our mission is to strive to provide quality training and technical assistance; enhance public safety and citizen perception of public policing as the primary method for the delivery of safety services; and become a resource for information on public safety issues for law enforcement and communities.

Website: http://www.wvrcpi.org

Phone: (877) 333-7268

Fax: (304) 766-3347

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The mission of the Western Community Policing Institute is to improve the interaction and cooperation between all levels of public safety personnel, govenemental and non-governmental orgaization representatives, volunteer agencies, private businesses and corporations, and community members to promote the development of community-based partnerships and problem solving to prevent crime, reduce the fear of crime, and enhance the quality of life throughout the region.

Website: http://www.westernrcpi.com

Phone: (877) 601-6866

Fax: (503) 751-4009

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