community service officers

Here is a photograph of Brittney Adams from her time as a Community Service Officer.

A Community Service Officer (CSO) works part-time in the Minneapolis Police Department for up to three years while enrolled as a student in an approved, two-year law enforcement program and/or working towards completion of Minnesota Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST) licensing requirements.

CSOs assist the police department and community to improve communications, understanding and cooperation between MPD employees and Minneapolis’s diverse communities.

The duties of a CSO include:

  • Assisting patrol officers in non-enforcement activities;
  • Responding to requests for service;
  • Helping maintain police vehicles;
  • Identifying and reporting criminal activities;
  • Teaching crime prevention techniques;
  • Recovering abandoned property;
  • Assisting traffic control with special events, major fires, parades and accidents;
  • Assisting department officers or other agencies in providing transportation as requested

For more information, please visit:

http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/police/recruiting/police_recruiting_cso

Photograph courtesy of Beth Moda