Alexandria Police Foundation

The Community Oriented Policing section (COPS) programs, support the Alex. Police Dept. (APD) officers working with at risk youth and families in the city to foster an atmosphere of communication and cooperation to improve the overall quality of life for both the youth and their families. The officers engage directly with disadvantaged youth thru meaningful community projects, fun recreational activities and rewards to acknowledge academic effort and achievement. This regular positive interaction between the officers and Alexandria's youth is critical to building trust, promotion of meaningful relationships and ensuring positive outcomes. This benefits not only the children served by the program, but to the entire Alexandria community as well.

The APF continues their program of ensuring the ongoing care of the K9 dogs in their retirement. This year we converted to being self insured instead of purchasing policies from insurance companies. In addition a decision was made to reimburse the officers for the past 3 years of out of pocket expenses they incurred after insurance company coverage for vet, medical expenses. This resulted in $5821 to the officers. The current year medical costs for the K9 was $6666 and the food, misc. equipment was $1750. The cost of expensing the prepaid portion of previous insurance policies was $4064.

Officer Wellness Program. The APF made a one time purchase for exercise equipment for the officers use during down time and for the departments ongoing physical training programs. This improves officer morale and physical health, whick in turn improves performance and ability on the job.