The city has been divided into 24 Neighborhood Policing Areas (NPA’s). Click here to view the mapped areas.

While the Martinez Police Department has embraced the principals of community policing for many years, we believe our continued and expanded efforts to engage the community at the neighborhood level has and will result in a relatively low crime rate and increased public satisfaction with the service being provided by the Department.

The Department has implemented a new and innovative policing approach designed to facilitate direct personal communication between our officers and the community members they serve.

The fundamental feature of this new approach is that every Martinez police officer now has direct responsibility for a designated area in the city, which is called a Neighborhood Policing Area (NPA). The city has been divided into 24 NPA's. Each NPA has at least one officers assigned to the area.  Every person who lives or works within that NPA has access to those employees for the purpose of dealing with local problems and concerns or to just chat about law enforcement issues.

We feel that making the assignments permanent gives each officer and civilian employee a strong sense of ownership and personal connection with a particular area of the city. Unless an employee is promoted or leaves the agency, they will remain assigned to their area for an extended period of time.  This approach will help provide continuity in the relationships the Department is seeking to establish with the community, help build trust and understanding and allow the Department to intelligently focus its efforts and resources where they are needed most.

With this new initiative, the Department’s current service delivery process has remained the same.  When someone requires police services, they will still dial 9-1-1 for emergencies, or the Department’s non-emergency number, 925.372-3440, and an officer will be dispatched as soon as possible.  The neighborhood policing responsibilities performed by the officers are ancillary duties performed during their regular workday under the guidance of their supervisor.  Each officer is required to spend several hours during the week engaged in these new policing activities.

The NPA officer is responsible for facilitating neighborhood meetings in their area as well as making personal contact with every resident, business person or person responsible for a facility within their assigned NPA.  Meetings may be used to disseminate crime statistics from the area and to discuss local issues and solutions to problems.

We look forward to building partnerships with all of our community members and continuing to solve problems associated with crime and the quality of life in the City of Martinez.

For more information on the Martinez Neighborhood Policing Initiative, contact your NPA officer.  Find your NPA officer by clicking here for the Area Maps.