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The Keene Police Officer's Association is continuously striving and working hard to create better working conditions for our members while ensuring that their voices are heard, so that we can better serve our community.
We support the community
Five years ago we decided to get involved in our community. We stressed to our membership that although we had an obligation to serve our membership, we also had an obligation to serve the community we swore to protect.
As a result we developed our Community Service Initiative or CSI Program. This is the umbrella program that all our community service programs fall under. The Community Services Initiative seeks to create a partnership among parents, youth and the community to strengthen and empower individuals, families, and neighborhoods to foster the optimal development of children, youth, and adults.
The Community Services Initiative will support the creation and the continuation of programs and services that promote a healthy safe community by fostering the unique potential of all individuals.
Our goal is to provide community service involvement through both traditional and more creative volunteer agencies, and to encourage and facilitate that involvement amongst others. This initiative will create an environment in which we can learn from each other and at the same time provide increased public safety awareness and reduce crime within the City of Keene.
Yearly, the KPOA donates money to various youth organizations so that they may continue to provide a valuable service to the children of our community. Over the last 5 years our efforts have focused on two events that stand out in our community. One being our child fingerprinting events and the second being our Public Safety Day/Law Enforcement Expo.
On November 4th, 2005 we held its first Child Fingerprinting Event at the E.F. Lane Hotel as part of First Friday in Keene. We utilized the SentryKIDS electronic Child Fingerprinting System called FingerTIPS™.
This software program allows us to electronically capture 10 fingerprints or 2 thumbprints, a color digital photo and vital biographical information onto a Bio-Doc. It is so versatile it can be used for law enforcement, schools, daycare programs, entrepreneurs, nursing homes, labor unions, corporations and all other operating environments. FingerTIPS™ produces two popular ID formats (Bio-Doc™ & Bio-Disk™) instantly with no waiting or batch printing necessary. The program allows for the use of pre-populate records to increase daily throughput. The FingerTIPS™ fingerprint scanner can be connected to any computer through a USB port. You can take photo's with a web camera, digital camera or choose .jpg and .bmp photo's already on the computer. FingerTIPS™ can print a Bio-Doc™, an 8.5 X 11 inch document that includes a color digital photo, 10 finger prints and personal information of the person fingerprinted to include parental information as well as distinguishing marks. This Bio-Doc™, can be printed on plain bond paper or on pre-printed cards online. Fingerprints can also be saved to a CD Disk or Bio-Disk™ and can be viewed on any computer. The FingerTIPS™ system is used by other larger agencies such as the Boston Police Department and the Klaas Kids Foundation for Children. As of 3/10/03 the KlaasKids Foundation operates 7 SentryKIDS® FingerTIPS™ systems and has fingerprinted over 250,000 of our Nation's Children.
To date the KPOA has fingerprinted over 1000 children in the Monadnock Region. We are proud to say that we are the only Law Enforcement Affiliated Organization in the State of New Hampshire to utilize the SentryKIDS® FingerTIPS™ system.
To make the event more community orientated we do not limit participation in the event to just Law Enforcement, but we include local fire, ambulance services, private businesses and organizations and military agencies. The intent is to gather enough participation from the Public Safety community in Cheshire County to make this a fun and informative event for all ages.
Please click here to see all that we do for our community.Goodwill Projects
The members of the Keene Police Officer's Association will continue to work together in a partnership with the community. We will continue to provide support to programs that provide positive alternatives for youth and that empower them to have a stake in their schools and communities. The KPOA is a prime example of law enforcement working with communities, businesses, and service organizations to ensure that the City of Keene is a model for others to follow.
Thank you,
The members of the Keene Police Officer's Association
"In Unity there is strength, from our strength will come our honor"
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