Resources

 

Chaplains

The High Point Police Chaplain Team is comprised of professional clergy members who volunteer their services to department employees, their families, and members of the community during times of crisis, sorrow, or conflict.  Our Chaplains donate several hundred hours to the community and department each year seeking to lighten the burden of the officers by performing tasks that have a greater spiritual or social nature rather than law enforcement nature.  Chaplains are on-call 24 hours a day to assist police personnel with a variety of situations in the field such as homicides, suicides, traffic fatalities and other accidental deaths.  It is our Chaplains who carry out death notifications on behalf of the department. 

 

In order to assist officers and members of the community as well, our Chaplains also respond with the Tactical Team whenever it is activated.  Chaplains participate in ride-a-longs with officers and conduct station visits on a regular basis in an effort to better acquaint themselves with the officers and their demanding roles.  As members of the High Point Police Reserves, the Chaplains also assist with various events such as fundraising walks and runs, parades, and other community events.  The Chaplains constantly strive to strike a balance between serving the needs of the Police Officers in their personal and professional lives and serving the High Point community at large.

 

Community Outreach

 

The most recognized programs managed by Community Outreach Officer Robert Burchette, (336) 887-7807, are probably Neighborhood Watch and National Night Out. If you would like help getting either program started in your neighborhood, please give Officer Burchette a call. Officer Burchette serves under Major Shultz in the South District.

The Community Outreach officer is available to present programs to work or civic groups on a variety of topics such as workplace violence, telemarketing fraud, bicycle safety; robbery preparedness; domestic violence prevention; safety issues for senior citizens; drug education, or identity theft, to name a few.  

Please read through the safety tips offered on this site. Situations can arise quickly; we want you to be prepared. Our Community Outreach unit looks forward to helping the citizens of High Point to be as safe and proactive as possible.

 

High Point Community Against Violence

 

HPCAV is a non-profit organization working with the Violent Crimes Task Force (VCTF), a group of law enforcement officials consisting of the High Point Police Department, NC Community Corrections, ATF, FBI, SBI, DEA, District Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, to keep our citizen safe from violent offenders.  We assist in confronting offenders who are involved in violent crime, offering offenders help in turning their lives in a positive direction and supporting the prosecution process if the offenders reoffend and return to crime and violence.

 

Law enforcement agencies and the community began this partnership in 1997. In 1998, we began working with a strategy that had been successful in Boston, MA. Over time, our strategy has been successfully adjusted to meet the changing needs of a smaller city. In 2004, our strategy was adjusted again, to target street level drug and violent criminals in specific areas of the city. In 2008, our strategy was re-adjusted to address youth gang violence.

 

Today, this strategy is known as the High Point Model and is being replicated in cities and towns across our nation. It is through the continued innovative and hard work of our law enforcement partners and the community that we have been able to reduce violent crime in High Point and keep it below 1997 levels.