Organization
The Redlands Police Department employs 98 sworn officers and more than 100 civilian personnel and operates under the policy of Risk Focused Policing (RFP). Risk Focused Policing is a data and results-driven, community-oriented policing and problem solving strategy which focuses on those factors in a community that place its youth and their families most at risk for criminal and other problem behaviors. In addition to measuring risk factors and finding ways to control crime before it happens - which is the philosophy of RFP, there are five community policing stations staffed by Community Policing Officers and other police personnel working toward a healthy community.
One indication of the community's commitment to the department's mission is the large number of volunteers that contribute literally thousands of hours to the department each month. While there are nearly 200 employees in the department there are nearly as many volunteers working in literally every unit within the department.
In addition to its risk-focused policing efforts at controlling crime before it happens, the department employs such traditional crime suppression and enforcement concepts as its street crime/gang suppression, narcotics, traffic and police bicycle patrols. Furthermore, the department boasts a 62-member Civilian Volunteer Patrol whose members provide increased police visibility and crime deterrence through vacation house checks, after-hours commercial patrols and almost constant random patrol in marked cars. The department also has active Police Reserve, Chaplain and Explorer Units which augment the department's regular patrol forces.
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