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Strategic Plan Goal
The City's Press Play Fort Lauderdale 2029 Strategic Plan articulates Public Safety as a focus area for the next five years with the goal to be a safe community that is proactive and responsive to risks.
Safety is an essential service provided by local governments for neighbors, businesses, and visitors. Being a safe community, prepared and ready to handle all risks, threats, and emergencies, ensures a high quality of life and creates an appealing environment for all to live, work, and play. Over the next five years, the City will be focused on improving its response to those who need emergency support. Additionally, the City is eager to leverage technology, utilize data analytics, and invest in critical infrastructure to prevent threats, respond to emergencies, and solve crimes. The City of Fort Lauderdale is committed to saving life, property, and environment through rapid, effective, specialized response.
This goal was further emphasized with the selection of Public Safety as a priority for FY 2025 during the City Commission's Annual Prioritization Workshop on January 19, 2024. The focus of this priority is to reduce crime and increase the safety of our City by providing the necessary resources to first responders and by to build community partnerships.
Public Safety Key Themes for FY 2025 include:
Right-size personnel to meet the needs of the City's residents, visitors, and workers
Improve police response times
Examine and plan for upcoming retirements
Enhance efforts to recruit high quality police officers to meet staffing needs
Citywide gun violence prevention (e.g., explore Cities United partnership)
Encourage gun safety education and outreach initiatives (e.g., Gun Accident, Assault, and Suicide Prevention (GAASP), safety devices, storage, training, and safety videos) for the community and in schools
Strengthen neighborhood relationships with police officers
Address concentrated crime through prevention (respond to targeted burglaries)
Continue to partner with the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative to understand safety concerns and to develop innovative solutions
The City's Press Play Fort Lauderdale 2029 Strategic Plan articulates Public Safety as a focus area for the next five years with the goal to be a safe community that is proactive and responsive to risks.
Safety is an essential service provided by local governments for neighbors, businesses, and visitors. Being a safe community, prepared and ready to handle all risks, threats, and emergencies, ensures a high quality of life and creates an appealing environment for all to live, work, and play. Over the next five years, the City will be focused on improving its response to those who need emergency support. Additionally, the City is eager to leverage technology, utilize data analytics, and invest in critical infrastructure to prevent threats, respond to emergencies, and solve crimes. The City of Fort Lauderdale is committed to saving life, property, and environment through rapid, effective, specialized response.
This goal was further emphasized with the selection of Public Safety as a priority for FY 2025 during the City Commission's Annual Prioritization Workshop on January 19, 2024. The focus of this priority is to reduce crime and increase the safety of our City by providing the necessary resources to first responders and by to build community partnerships.
Public Safety Key Themes for FY 2025 include:
Right-size personnel to meet the needs of the City's residents, visitors, and workers
Improve police response times
Examine and plan for upcoming retirements
Enhance efforts to recruit high quality police officers to meet staffing needs
Citywide gun violence prevention (e.g., explore Cities United partnership)
Encourage gun safety education and outreach initiatives (e.g., Gun Accident, Assault, and Suicide Prevention (GAASP), safety devices, storage, training, and safety videos) for the community and in schools
Strengthen neighborhood relationships with police officers
Address concentrated crime through prevention (respond to targeted burglaries)
Continue to partner with the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative to understand safety concerns and to develop innovative solutions
