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| Community Outreach
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| Under the FBI's Community
Outreach Program (COP), experienced FBI employees have been
assigned to serve as coordinators in each of the FBI's 56 field
offices nationwide. Their duties include: |
- establishing a network of
resources;
- giving prevention
programs, speeches, events, etc.; and
- coordinating the
development and growth of local programs with FBI
Headquarters to ensure maximum economy and effectiveness.
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| A staff at FBI Headquarters
assists the field in managing their programs. It creates policy,
sets goals, provides training opportunities, and furnishes
resource materials. |
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| In connection with the crime,
drug, gang, and violence prevention activities, the FBI is a
partner with several national and local organizations. Examples
of successful, long-term relationships are those with the Boys
and Girls Clubs of America and the National Family Partnership.
A new partnership unites the FBI and the National Guard Bureau
with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Marine
Corps in a nationwide, science education program for high-risk
youth. |
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| In the last few years, the
FBI's COP efforts have expanded to support the spontaneous
growth of community outreach programs developed by other FBI
employees. These include school-based programs, such as
Adopt-A-School (volunteer mentors and tutors) and Junior Special
Agent classrooms. |
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| The FBI's COP places a special
emphasis on youth. However, we recognize the interdependency of
children, parents, other adults, community groups, businesses,
schools, social services, and health services. Therefore,
coordinators are also serving on committees and boards at local
and regional planning meetings for integrated, comprehensive,
community-based prevention services for crime, drugs, and
violence. |
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| The FBI considers prevention
to be an integral part of the law enforcement function, and as
such, we make an important contribution to communities across
this country. As we continue to reassess and update our
Community Outreach Program, the needs of the American people
will affect our future projects and alignments. |
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