As our senior citizen population increases, communities must find a way to reach our older generation. Our department developed a Senior Advocate Officer Program in which the Certified Elderly Services Officers held training meetings with Senior Citizens to discuss their concerns and to educate them on crime trends targeting the elderly. The goals were to improve the “quality-of-life” for our seniors by reducing crime and the “fear-of-crime.”
Training topics consisted of: Elderly Abuse, Financial exploitation of
the Elderly, and specific crimes such as Home Repair Frauds and Telemarketing
Scams. As a result, many seniors
expressed a desire to learn about the daily operations of the police department
and what services were available to them. In
September of 1997, the Mundelein Police Department organized a 10-week “Senior
Citizen’s Police Academy.”
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