ANTICIPATORY- Community Program Officer

Role:The Community Program Officer designs and implements community-based programs, proactive initiatives and strategies that contribute to the core police role of reassurance policing, prevention and reduction of crime through education, intervention, and sustainable community engagement. Key duties include:• Carries out intervention and diversion activities to address risk factors among vulnerable youth and adult offenders in order to prevent recidivism.• Uses structured interviewing techniques and evidence-based instruments to conduct mental health screening, as well as criminogenic risk screening and assessment. • Interprets the screening and assessment results for the purpose of developing appropriate interventions and establishing meaningful and proportionate accountability measures according to the level of identified risk.• Promot...