Our Commitment to Equity
At CIVEQ Impact Strategies, we understand the importance of promoting fair, equitable, and impartial policing practices. Whether you are a police department or a local government, the foundation of your influence starts with a clear vision. Your message is vital to shaping how equity is perceived and practiced within your community.
At CIVEQ Impact Strategies, our approach begins by understanding the history of policing and its impact on communities. We believe that acknowledging past challenges and learning from them is essential to fostering fair and impartial policing today. By integrating insights from this history, we develop strategies that promote transparency, build trust, and advance equity, helping police departments and local governments create safer, more inclusive communities for all.
Community Engagement
We specialize in helping agencies develop and facilitate opportunities for police departments and communities to come together to have meaningful engagement around different topics and challenges. Whether we hold focus groups and engagement sessions for you, or we assist your agency in creating community engagement, we ensure that all public engagement is inclusive and impactful with the intention of promoting transparency, trust-building, and a more positive relationship.
Non-Discrimination Policies
Our team helps agencies focus on promoting fair and impartial policing by aligning departmental practices with principles around equity and non-discrimination. We assist police departments and local governments in creating, updating, and implementing policies that address current challenges while reflecting best practices in public safety. Through thorough policy reviews and expert guidance, we help organizations build frameworks that prioritize transparency, accountability, and community trust, ensuring that all policies, including those on non-discrimination, are effective, inclusive, and sustainable.
Training
Our services assist agencies in developing and delivering comprehensive procedural justice and impartial policing training. We work with law enforcement departments to design training programs that emphasize core principles such as fairness, transparency, impartiality, and community voice. Our approach ensures that training is practical, interactive, and tailored to real-world scenarios, enabling officers to implement these principles effectively in their daily interactions. By helping agencies deliver high-quality, impactful training, we support the development of a policing culture rooted in respect, accountability, and non-discrimination, ultimately building stronger, more trusting relationships with the communities they serve.
Inclusive Department Programming
Our team will help you build and establish programs within your agency that promote inclusion and support for your members and the communities you serve. These programs are aimed to promote long-term sustainability within your Department.
Example of programs include:
LGBTQ+ Liaison Officer
Peer Support Groups for different identities/backgrounds
ADA Compliance
Language Access Programs
Impartial Policing Assessment Tool
CIVEQ Impact Strategies has designed a unique comprehensive tool to help police departments assess their current progress towards implementing impartial policing. This tool is designed to identify where you are at today and provide insight and guidance into how to further advance your goals.
The Impartial Policing Assessment Tool (IPAT) has six major components:
Community Engagement
Impartial Policing Policies
Procedural Justice Training
Data and Evaluation
Department Programs
Long-term Sustainability
