CPTI Mission:
| The Community Policing Training Initiative supports democratic change by facilitating sustainable partnerships that empower law enforcement professionals, educators, city administrators, media specialists, and social service providers in Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. to build healthy and safe communities through collaboration, transparency and public accountability. |
From October 1, 2000 - September 30, 2002, Project Harmony conducted the Community Policing Training Initiative. The two-year initiative provided training to Russian and Ukrainian police agencies, as well as education departments, city government and social service providers in the fields of community policing and juvenile narcotics prevention.
Program Overview
Project Harmony has conducted law enforcement and criminal justice exchange and training programs in Russia and Ukraine since 1995. These programs have developed a strong network of reform-minded leadership within the local, regional and national law enforcement agencies in Russia and Ukraine. CPTI expanded and enhanced this network and promoted the concepts and practices of community policing as a strategic new approach to community problem solving, public safety and crime prevention. Three distinct program components were implemented to achieve these goals.
 The Law Enforcement Exchange Program (Velikiy Novgorod, Russia & Crimea, Ukraine)
Through two-way exchange programs with American and NIS Law Enforcement professionals and Professional Development Workshops on community policing themes, Project Harmony enhanced the already existing Sister City relationship between Rochester, NY and Velikiy Novgorod, Russia and created new ties between Milwaukee County, Wisconsin and Crimea, Ukraine.
The Juvenile Drug Enforcement and Prevention Initiative (Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia, Velikiy Novgorod, Volgograd and Irkutsk, Russia)
With partners in Karelia, Russia, Project Harmony helped to publish and distribute a Russian in-school drug prevention curriculum and facilitated regional training seminars for education and law enforcement professionals in more than 10 Russian communities that led to implementation of the curriculum in local schools.
The Community Policing Center (Lviv, Ukraine)
Through a three-part exchange program between Lviv and Kyiv Ukraine and the State of Michigan law enforcement community, Project Harmony raised greater awareness of the value and effectiveness of community policing as it applies to the entirety of Ukraine. The Project Harmony Community Policing Center, a virtual resource center accessed through the Community Policing Training Initiative (CPTI) website, now provides adapted training materials for community policing development in three languages.
Final Program Results
Through CPTI, Project Harmony:
| Conducted 15 exchange events including the travel of 30 US trainers to the NIS, and 41 NIS professionals to the US. |
| Reached 3372 participants in the NIS |
| Enlisted support from 389 program contributors on US-based phases |
| Achieved 1731 program contact hours both in the US and the NIS |
| Published 7,000 in-school drug prevention texts (DOM curriculum) and distributed them to as many as 21 NIS communities |
| Achieved solid media coverage of the 15 major program events that affected over 25 US and NIS communities |
| Established a tri-lingual website that serves as an online law-enforcement resource center for professionals in the US, Ukraine, and Russia |
| Created an online communication tool that allows trainers and participants to share ideas |
Program Background
As Russia and Ukraine struggle to establish democratic systems atop the rubble of communist bureaucracies, public safety and rule of law must be secured in order for democracy to thrive. The transformation of post-Soviet law enforcement and criminal justice systems is critical to the success of these reform efforts. New challenges created by dramatic reform and social change must be met with new and innovative solutions. Those challenges take many forms - increased crime, breakdown of the traditional family unit, collapse of social safety nets and widespread corruption. Community policing offers a unique approach to addressing these cross-cutting problems facing law enforcement professionals.
Why Community Policing?
American models of community policing employ coalition-based solutions at the local level to affect positive change in areas of public safety and crime prevention. Community policing methods embody the democratic principles of rights and responsibilities by encouraging cooperative partnerships between authorities and the citizens they protect. For this reason, Project Harmony designed the two-year Community Policing Training Initiative (CPTI) to provide training and assistance to Russian and Ukrainian communities.
See also the official CPTI website.
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