TOLEDO, Ohio — If you have a new idea on improving the quality of your neighborhood, the Toledo Police Department is asking you to share it with them.
TPD created the Quality of Life community meetings to help direct their initiatives for 2023. They say their plan is to replace crime by being more present and interactive with the community. The idea is that Toledo residents spend most of their days in the neighborhood, so they may see more than the average police officer who travels throughout multiple neighborhoods while on duty.
Although they work in the neighborhoods, the officers say they can't see and hear it all and they are hoping you can be their eyes and ears.
"When we have the community come into these meetings, they can better tell us what they are experiencing - what they are seeing because they live there, they are there 24 hours a day," said Lieutenant Paul Davis with TPD. "So, we need them to partner with us in this and tell us their cares and concerns and comments and maybe some ways we can do things better," said Davis.
He says the department can't change the city on their own.
"So, we need them to partner with us in this and tell us their cares and concerns and comments and maybe some ways we can do things better," he said.
The Quality of Life community meetings are also created to focus on maintaining the environment. TPD wants residents to let them know about crime in the community but also about abandoned cars, trash clean up, hazards and more.
TPD says if you have an idea that could improve the quality of your neighborhood, they are open to hearing you out.
The upcoming meetings are listed below:
LASER (Lagrange Area Safety Enforcement Response)
February 14 @ 4 p.m.
Chet Zablocki Recreation Center
3015 Lagrange St. 43608
RASER (Reynolds Airport Safety Enforcement Response)
February 15 @ 6 p.m.
Grace Church
3700 Hill Ave. 43615
STAR (South Toledo Area Response)
February 21 @ 5 p.m.
The Believe Center, Inc.
1 Aurora Gonzales Dr. 43609
BLASER (BUMA-Lawrence Area Safety Enforcement Response) [“BUMA” Is an acronym for “Bancroft-Upton-Monroe-Auburn”]
February 23 @ 6 p.m.
Mott Library
1010 Dorr St. 43607
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