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Public Safety is a foundational community need. Being safe, and also feeling safe, is essential to ensuring a high quality of life for our residents and our neighborhoods. When people feel safe, they engage in more community activities, enjoy shared public spaces, and build social connections with their neighbors.
Public safety must be dynamic and evolve to fit the changing needs of our community. Over the last year, we have placed a laser focus on public safety, seeking solutions that modernize services and equipment, and challenging our departments to find innovative strategies to reduce crime and keep us safer. Learn more about the initiatives listed below.
Public Safety Initiatives
Investments in the Sheriff’s Office
Last year, Monroe County committed to providing $7.3 M to modernize the Sheriff's Office including new personnel, positions, and enhanced cross-jurisdictional collaboration.
The Regional Investigative Operations Center or RIOC
A real-time crime center, using technology to enhance and coordinate criminal investigations across multiple jurisdictions.
Juvenile Enhanced Diversion Stabilization or JEDS
Under JEDS, youth are given expedited court dates and law enforcement can electronically submit an information packet immediately to probation, allowing officers to engage the family the next day and start the stabilization process., ensuring young people and their families have access to resources that help prevent new offenses.
Monroe County Crime Lab
Investing in new 3D ballistics technology using high-resolution 3D imaging microscopes will allow examiners to use a casing, a bullet, or both to provide more data points for comparison and solve more crimes.
Monroe County School Bus Safety Program
Camera systems on school buses capture video of motorists who pass school buses when the red lights are flashing and the stop arms are down. Offenders are ticketed, and revenues will be earmarked for public safety initiatives.
Traffic Safety Programs
A new Monroe County Community Traffic Safety Team, will work with towns, villages and school districts participating in the Monroe County School Bus Safety Program to target traffic safety concerns in their area.
Public Safety News Coverage
- Bello Highlights Public Safety Efforts in Address – WXXI News
- Greece Schools Add Stop-Arm Cameras on Buses, Issue 1,100 Violations to Drivers in 12 Weeks – WHEC 10 News
- Bello Spotlights MCSO Investments, new 3D ballistics tech in State of Public Safety Address – Spectrum News
- Monroe County Forming Traffic Safety Team – WROC 8 News
- New Public Safety Initiatives Coming to Monroe County – WHAM 13 News
- News 10NBC Investigates: New 3D Bullet Technology Hopes to Connect More Guns to Shooters – WHEC 10 News
