It is National Police week
in here in Idaho. Several
police departments, of course,
dedicated to not only serving
their citizens but also showing
their communities that they care.
Yes. And joining us this morning from
the Nampa Police Department is Chief
Joe Huff and Lieutenant Jason Cantrell.
So welcome. You too.
Thank you for getting up early with.
Good morning. Thanks
for having us.
Yeah, you guys look.
Right eyed Bruce tailed you're
probably used to these hours
for you tell us about what
community involvement means to
the Nampa Police Department.
First the chief Sure.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean that's obviously one of
the cornerstones of law enforcement, right.
If you don't have your community back in you.
I mean what's what's the point right.
So we strive really hard at Nampa police
to keep our community involved every
day with which is interaction with them.
I mean we we have stuff from shop with a cop
to obviously this week being law enforcement.
Week and we've had a lot of stuff going on.
We've had interaction with our
community through food trucks,
we've had tours, the Police Department,
we have coffee with.
One of the the vendors yesterday
had coffee for all of us down there.
So it's real important that all year long
that we stay involved with our community.
I mean that's that's really one
of our cornerstones there.
And what I love about Nampa PD
is that you really do showcase
it too on your social media.
They have the best social media around.
Carmen, I think handles that over there.
Shout out to Carmen at Nampa PD.
But I share it a lot in my good news because
we need to get the good stuff out there.
Of course there's stuff happening
that's not so great, right? Sure.
But to earn trust and to build community,
it's important to show them what you're
doing behind the scenes as well.
It is important.
And transparency is huge, right.
And that's where our social
media, Twitter, Facebook,
look at those hats. Yep.
Where's that hat this morning?
That's right. So
I mean, that's obviously a few
clips of just things that we've
done over the last couple of.
Weeks and months at Nampa Police.
I mean again, we've tried to
get that out on our social media
to show people who we are and
that the police are people too.
It's the community that we live in
is the community that we police.
So it's it's super important that that we.
Showcase that
and get the word out and social media
is not great for a lot of things,
but it is so good for that.
It really is just showcase the good that's
happening in our communities, right.
And that connection really goes both ways.
Lieutenant, how important is that to you?
You saw it right there that support
from the community. It's huge.
It's huge on dealing with crime and a
huge would just be in the interaction
with the people out in there.
We really want deposits in that the Bank
of Community Trust and we really need
to be partnering with our community to.
To get safer and just get out
there and get involved.
Like Chief said,
we live in the community that we work in.
And it's just awesome being out
there and seeing the community,
getting those high fives from the kids
and developing those relationships
because we need good people in our
police force for years to come,
Absolutely.
There's a lot of growth happening
in there right now. There is.
So how are you adjusting
to all that growth, Chief,
with the amount of officers needed
for the policing in your community?
Sure. So we do a different
model of policing in Nampa.
It's called Comstat policing,
which is basically.
Statistical based and that's one of
the things I mean like everybody in
in law enforcement we have a hard time
recruiting and retaining our people
and we work with our legislatures
on different things that we can do
to keep people interested in it.
We're very proactive through social
media through a hiring process
and you know we we do a good,
in my opinion,
we do a great job at the city of Nampa.
We have great support from our mayor,
we have great support from our
City Council and our community
and I think that's important and
that's what brings people to.
City of Nampa
and reflected in the numbers even
with growth, you know it's continues
to actually get safer out there.
So congratulations on that.
What are some events you guys have
coming up maybe this week or just
this summer that folks would like to
know about or should they just
check in on. So yeah, obviously
want show for media, I mean this week
in particular with being police week
we have a memorial service tonight
at 9:00 o'clock at the post Academy.
We have the actual ceremony is tomorrow
at 10:00 o'clock over in Meridian.
We have several just community events
coming up throughout the week.
Gosh, we have, we have the
summer Popsicles with police.
It's like coffee with the cop.
We have that where we invite
people down to our department.
They can take tours,
They can bring their children down there.
You know, we have the downtown
trick or treat. Obviously you're
seeing that on the screen.
Maybe not official uniforms,
Donuts and coffee.
Yes. And you visit schools
all the time as well. Awesome.
And then there's Cole.
During his Officer Cole.
That's a big one. Officer
Cole, the Elf on the Shelf over there
at Nampa PD always causing chaos.
He is definitely causing K9 units.
Well, thank you so much,
Chief Lieutenant, really appreciate it.
And always keep checking their
social media. It's a great time.
Hey, Speaking of that, Chief,
aren't we giving Carmen a raise?
We're gonna for all of the hard work.
That's that's one thing.
We have to give her the plug.
Yeah. Breaking news. Yes.
Run that animation, Carmen.
You're getting a raise.
Yes. Outstanding.
They didn't say how much. Yeah.
We'll have to find out more regardless.
More. Wake up.
I know. After this.
Thanks for having us on.