(MPSC) Mid-North Public Safety Committee mission is to “Provide clear leadership and well defined input for enhancing the quality of life for neighborhood communities within the city of Indianapolis and greater Indianapolis area by providing resources and services that; Promote and facilitate mutually beneficial city-wide partnerships in the development of Neighborhood Community Public Safety.
Serve as a tool for driving the delivery of shared and particular Neighborhood Community public safety agendas, and as a starting point from which to develop new ways of working across governmental departmental lines to ensure that Neighborhood Community established priorities are implemented.


Mid-North Public Safety Goals
1. Strengthen Neighborhood Communities
2. Support Families, Children, Elderly and young people
3. Reduce Crime through a problem focused crime prevention
4. Enhance overall Neighborhood Community Public Safety 
5. Reduce Neighborhood Community negatives

To accomplish its mission and goals, MPSC aligns its time, talents, and resources by

1. Promoting and facilitating partnerships that effectively combat and reduce crime
2. Setting public safety standards, establishing public safety priorities, and shaping public policy toward continuous improvements as it relates to public safety, and
3. Serving as a portal into local government and police in order to maximize the synergy between private citizens and public authorities.

Mid- North Public Safety serves its constituent neighborhoods and residents from the platform that the most basic civic responsibility is public safety and that the highest priority of government must be the safety and security of its citizens.
Through this and the daily campaign of its committed members and volunteers, MPSC serves the community by providing a voice in the public square.


Mid-North Public Safety Function 
*Serve as a resource for city wide partnerships
*Assist combined city,county and state government in undertaking crime prevention projects
*Maintain Neighborhood input databases, research and follow up on Neighborhood Community public safety agendas
*Assist neighborhood Community organizations to implement crime prevention projects and to access government agencies and support

Mid- North Public Safety Sub Committee's

HOUSING
Scope: Abandoned Housing, Tenant/Landlord issues, Housing Codes, Drug Houses, Eviction Program and Section 8 landlord issues.

JUDICAL
Scope: Arresting Processing Center, Prosecutions, Probation, Warrant Sweeps, Case Follow-up, Court Follow-up, (Court Watch) Law Enforcement, Judge Accountability and other related areas of concern.

ENVIRONMENTAL
Scope: Animal Code Enforcement, Insect Control, Trash pickup, Noise, Abandoned autos and relates areas of concern.

JUVENILE
Scope: Gangs, Graffiti, Loitering, Drugs, Truancy/School Administration, Juvenile Courts, Child Protective Services, Crime Prevention, Youth Programs and Service Learning Projects

SENIORS
Scope: Housing, Public & Home Safety, Volunteer Opportunities, Senior Activities, Special Interests, Adult Protection Services and Community Involvement.

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During the month of November 2007 the Mid-North Public Safety Committee established five sub-committees and one standing committee. The one (1) standing committee, MID-NORTH PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE (MPSC).

The sub-committees reports directly to the MID-NORTH PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE and interacts directly with their respective Neighborhood Community Residents. Each sub-committee chairperson serves as a member of the Mid-North Public Safety Committee in whole. The chairperson of each sub-committee serves as the key representative of their respective committee.

The sub-committee receive and respond to issues, concerns and problems generated through: monthly meetings, of Mid-North Public Safety Committee, resident calls, Indianapolis Marion County Police Department and the neighborhood organization of which they represent. Each problem and/or concern will be issued to the sub-committee that can be most effective in resolving the problem and/or concern. Subsequently, the resolution of each problem and/or concern is reported to the Mid North Public Safety Committee and to the affected community residents.

All problems/concerns, resolutions and follow-up is driven through the Mid North Public Safety Committee and thereby funneled throughout the neighborhoods via monthly meetings and/or members organizations.

The Mid North Public Safety Committee serves as a five way frontal attack on various neighborhood problems. Each sub-committee serves as a specialist in the areas they represent. The sub-committee approach additionally, serves as the best method of following an issue through its entire resolution process and at the same time allows for corrective action as required. Where required the resources of each sub-committee will be combined for a focused attack on a given problem.

Each sub-committee operates independently, and each committee establishes its own contacts and game plans. Each sub-committee should meet at least once a month. The main purpose on the monthly meeting is to provide:
Monthly committee reporting
Information gathering and provide a general forum for speakers
Joint communications
Setting of joint objectives
Aide in training
Data gathering and sharing

The monthly meeting also serves as method of pulling together general contacts for each committee,joint input from governmental agencies and other public and private organizations.

   For the period of the past three years MPSC has ensued, with upshot outcome, the following successes:
 (1) Engaged Adult Protective Services in reporting incidents against senior citizens, thereby raising awareness level of crimes against seniors. (2) Effectively shut down two major apartment complexes with outstanding code violations, high crime incidents and narcotics trade in a combined partnership effort with Marion County Prosecutors Narcotics Abatement program, IMPD, IFD, Health and Hospital and Zoning.  (3)Acknowledged and overcame citizens’ anxiety to report crime, resulting in increased IMPD identified neighborhood community Hot Spot and problem area reporting, thereby supplying a gainful viewpoint of current crime within our neighborhood Communities. (4) Succeeded in enabling property-owners with eviction processes regarding troublesome tenants. (5) Allowed Problem and Nuisance Property matters to be identified and acted upon, consistently and increasingly by our Health and Hospital partnership.(6) Established and made available Weekly Analysis Report(s) assessing North District Weekly Report and crime incidents.(7) Developed and made available Monthly Crime Index Percent Contribution Report by neighborhood. (8) Received, reported, analyzed and distributed reports from; Marion County Prosecutors Office, Arresting Processing Center, Child Protective Services, and State Court Administration. (9) Fashioned and generated consolidated crime incidents by neighborhood, address, date, number of incidents and category type. (10) Emphasized and communicated fact based neighborhood priorities with IMPD, uniting our neighborhood communities with the public safety agencies, enhancing the Community Policing Program.
 This is only a short list of successful efforts directly attributed to the MPSC Neighborhood Status Reporting Program     
Of most vital importance, MPSC supports neighborhood communities and their leaders by providing fact based information, leading to effective and supportive dialog with governmental agencies about concerns regarding their given neighborhood. As a result, greater confidence has been aroused within neighborhood communities and their residents with regard to successful action approaches to resident concerns. MPSC also serves as a hands on crime prevention training incubator, increasing value and interconnection amongst neighborhood community residents and community policing.

Strong and active Neighborhood Communities are the heart of an effective crime prevention program. Active citizens within a Neighborhood Community are necessary to help identify neighborhood public safety priorities within their neighborhood and work with agencies to ensure their implementation.

Involvement in the committee is open to anyone interested in making a difference.

Ed Potts
MPSC Director
MidNorthPublicSafety@yahoo.com


Victoria Pardue-Edwards
MPSC Community Relations Organizer
V.PEMPSC2@gmail.com