NCJ Number
83187
Editor(s)
P S Watson
Date Published
1981
Length
110 pages
Annotation
This volume presents descriptions of 14 projects which represented innovative efforts at law enforcement in South Carolina.
Abstract
Six of the projects were chosen for presentation at an October 1981 conference sponsored by the College of Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina and the Division of Public Safety Programs of the Governor of the State. The projects include the crime prevention program on the campus of Clemson University, a program combining vehicle and foot patrols by police to conserve fuel, a police-youth baseball league designed to provide supervised and safe recreation for children who were often left unsupervised by working parents, and a phone teletypewriter network designed to permit citizens with hearing and speech impairments to communicate directly with a police department. Additional projects included a program for educating young children about the importance of safety, an information system designed to enable the law enforcement agencies in one county to share information, and a program to train children aged 10 to 18 as babysitters. Further projects were a survey of downtown workers of Columbia, to determine their perceptions of their safety and the quality of law enforcement efforts and an anonymous crime reporting system which used an automatic telephone answering device. Personnel testing and training projects, the development of an annual report to improve communication between a sheriff's department and its community, and the provision of radio broadcasts by one sheriff are also described. Illustrations and sample project materials accompany some of the project descriptions.