Neighborhood Oriented Policing Teams, or NOPTs, consist of 24 Officers working in 15 target areas.  These areas include residential neighborhoods, the City Center and other high traffic business areas as well as one of the Joliet Housing Authority family site properties.  In addition, one officer is assigned full time to building inspections and abatement citywide.  The officers are expected to familiarize themselves with the area, work with residents, and respond to all calls for service in that area during their shift.  They are taught to seek long-term solutions to repeat problems, and to work with residents to create a safer environment.

All officers are encouraged to engage in problem solving activities, which involve traditional law enforcement tactics as well as developing tailor-made multifaceted solutions.  Officers have often used a variety of innovative techniques when addressing the unique community issues.  Some examples of activities that have been conducted over the past year include:

  • Changing or restricting vehicular and pedestrian traffic through cul-de-sacs, one-way streets, or no stopping, standing or parking areas;

  • Entering into trespass agreements with property owners;

  • Identifying prostitution or drug-related areas for targeted enforcement;

  • Utilizing crime prevention through environmental design principals;

  • Assisting cooperative landlords with evictions;

  • Recognizing the recreational gaps of communities, and identifying locations, obtaining properties, soliciting funding for equipment, and arranging for the construction of facilities;

The great majority of the neighborhoods in our City are located in a NOPT area, which are patrolled by regularly assigned patrol officers twenty-four hours a day, and specially trained Neighborhood Oriented Policing Officers eight hours a day.  To learn more about the various NOPT areas, and the officers that patrol them, click on any of the areas below.

 

Benton & Garnsey Area

 

Cathedral Area NOPT

Bounded by Ward (North); Cass (South); Henderson (East); Collins (West)

Bounded by Plainfield/Black( North); Jefferson (South); Plainfield/Center (East); William (West)

Officer Voudrie

Officer Wilson

Officer Blatti
 

 
   

Far West NOPT

Forest Park NOPT

Includes the following far west subdivisions:  Brighton Lakes/Summerfield, Wedgwood, Warwick, and Wexford West

Bounded by Rosalind (North); Woodruff (South); Gage (East); Fairview (West)

Officer Carroll

Officer Foster

 

 
   

Joliet & McDonough NOPT

North Broadway NOPT

Bounded by Marion (North); McDonough (South); Chicago (East); DesPlaines River (West)

Bounded by Theodore (North); Marble (South); Broadway (East); Center (West)

Officer Lakota

Officer English

 

 
   
   

Sherman and Third NOPT

Second and Richards NOPT

Washington (North); Fifth (South); Richards (East); Chicago (West)

Bounded by First (North); Fourth (South); Iowa (East); Richards (West)

Officer Schumacher

Officer Martin

Officer Hargrow
   

St. Pat's Area

Broadway Area

Bounded by Jefferson (North); Jasper (South); Bluff (East); Raynor (West)

Bounded by Marble (North); Jefferson (South); Bluff (East); Center (West)

Officer Johnson

 

Officer Lauer

Officer Sepulveda