Community Services Unit

Responsibilities

The Community Services Unit (CSU) is a partnership of police officers, schools, parents, businesses, and community members that provides a proactive approach to law enforcement. This is accomplished by working together to identify and resolve community problems. The Community Service Officers educate the public on a multitude of topics such as crime prevention and awareness.

The unit encompasses the Youth Services Unit and is staffed by one Lieutenant and three juvenile officers, one of which is assigned as a school resource officer at the high school.

The unit's efforts help to foster a stronger working relationship between the department and the community we serve.

Programs

  1. Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.)
  2. Coffee with a Cop
  3. Safe Child Identification Cards
  4. National Night Out
  5. Drug Take Back Day

Officer Giving a D.A.R.E. PresentationOfficer Hanzalik and Officer Stallmer, both certified D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) instructors, continue to provide the Guilderland Police Department's D.A.R.E. instruction to all 5th-grade elementary students within the Guilderland School District. D.A.R.E. provides the students in our community with the necessary skills and information they need to make good life choices.