Uniting departments and communities around programs that uplift and heal them.
Peace Officer Project is a multifaceted, multipronged approach to changing the culture of policing by changing the approach of police, and includes the Peace Officer Promise, Peace Officer Training and the Peace Officer Framework.
Peace Officer Promise is for all of the nation’s 18,000 police and sheriff’s departments. It is a renewal of vows which agencies may take, witnessed by their communities and a fundamental statement about what it means to be PEACE OFFICERS.
Peace Officer: Realizing the True Purpose of Policing delivers training for police agencies, cities and community groups with modules for police leaders, police officers, elected officials and community members delivered via an easy to navigate virtual platform.
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NBC 12 News PHOENIX — The Arizona State University Police Department is getting back to its roots and joining a national movement called the Police2Peace Project. The program is refocusing law
The state penal code uses only the term Peace Officer when referring to police officers.
The State penal code does not refer to Peace Officer
Usually means a law enforcement role which includes a badge, has the power to arrest, and also carries a service weapon.
According to research of the 50 states’ and District of Columbia penal codes, 71% of states use only the term Peace Officer when referring to police officers. and nearly 80% of states use the term in some law enforcement context.
Around the U.S. the term “Peace Officer” is primarily used to refer to police in state penal codes.
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Police2Peace is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit corporation formed to redefine, reimagine and advance policing on a national scale through the framework of police officers as “Peace Officers”. All donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.