COPPS, STARCOM, and Patrol Districts
Like many other law enforcement agencies around the country, the HCSO has its own Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving (COPPS) program. The COPPS program is designed to improve law enforcement relations with the community, through the development and facilitation of programs and organizations which address the community's needs and issues. The COPPS initiative encourages deputies to take a "problem solving" approach to their cases (as opposed to an "incident driven" one), expanding their influence into a wide range of quality of life issues.
The Sheriff's Tracking Accountability and Responsiveness to Crime Oppression Management (STARCOM) program is based on the successful implementation of CompStat by the New York City Police Department in 1994. STARCOM furthers the goal of COPPS through statistical analysis of criminal trends to identify crime patterns, and using this data to raise community awareness. Sheriff Richard Nugent introduced STARCOM on February 3, 2003, and restructured the Operations Bureau to better suit the model. The implementation of STARCOM also called for the reorganization of Hernando County into three Districts (1-3), which are further divided into Zones. Zone 9, while technically under the jurisdiction of District 3, is actually the territory of the Brooksville City Police Department. Refer to the map for more districting information.
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