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NET (Neighbourhood Empowerment Team) responds to repeated or significant incidents that may impact the security and safety of Edmontonians across the city. Our aim is to reduce the fear of crime and social disorder amongst community members.
The Neighbourhood Empowerment Team (NET), a partnership between the City of Edmonton, Edmonton Police Service, The Family Centre, and United Way of the Alberta Capital Region, works with residents, communities, businesses, and organizations to build solutions to create safe and vibrant neighbourhoods and communities.
Business Safety Matters
Safety Strategies
Neighbourhood Response Tool
Encouraging Positive Interactions
Seniors Safety At The Door
Personal Safety Strategies
Printed copies of any resource are available by request. Please email Jenna.Pilot@edmonton.ca with your details.
The Neighbourhood Empowerment Team (NET) hosts virtual presentations developed in response to community interest and to address safety concerns. Can’t make it to our presentation? Live presentations can be arranged for groups of 15 or more.
Follow NET on Eventbrite to pre-register for any upcoming presentations, at no cost.
For questions about presentations or the materials, please contact NET@edmonton.ca.
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This presentation will help you to have an increased understanding of what contributes to business safety.
This presentation will provide information on factors that contribute to crime, ways to protect your property, who you should report concerns to and why reporting is important.
This training was developed to help community businesses and organizations learn more positive ways of responding to others and ways of responding more effectively to perceived problematic youth behaviours.
Edmonton Police Service Crime Prevention
The Family Centre
United Way
Youth Liaisons
The origins of Edmonton’s Neighbourhood Empowerment Team (NET) date back over 20 years.
Dickensfield Community Partnership in Northeast Edmonton, identified an opportunity to reduce crime and strengthen prevention by working in partnership with Edmonton Police Service (EPS). This observation fed the now apparent notion that the Dickensfield community would be better served if community agencies and EPS worked together and inspired the formation of NET.
What started as informal meetings and EPS ride-alongs in an effort to better align services soon turned into a mindset for community safety and community policing in Edmonton. A conviction that community safety is best achieved through partnerships.
NET has seen a lot of changes over the past 20 years, from a single two-person team back in 1997 to 6 teams today.
NET still comprises the Edmonton Police Service (EPS), The City of Edmonton, The Family Centre and the United Way of the Alberta Capital Region.
Going forward NET will address concerns based on recurring issues or situations that are identified. NET will now expand their current geographical area of responsibility from neighbourhood to EPS Divisions. Each EPS Division will be connected to liaisons from both the City and The Family Centre.
The liaisons will be tasked with active engagement and community outreach with a lens for potential issues. Once identified, partner organizations (the former NET management team) will consider the issue and arrange and mobilize resources relevant. The supports required from EPS will be determined and engaged based on the needs presented in each situation.
This approach will allow for multiple collaborative response teams to be engaged city-wide. Staff aligned with the partnership will no longer be tied to exclusive geography - positioning the approach to be applied where it is needed, when it is needed and then redeployed when the need subsides.
| Title | Supervisor of Community Safety |
|---|---|
| Telephone | 780-668-7956 |
| jenna.pilot@edmonton.ca |
