Police
Day Labor Management
Training police to manage day laborers is an innovative, humane way to improve unorganized day labor. Day Labor training teaches officers to effectively police unorganized day laborers, deal with the associated problems and prevent new problems.
Police are often blamed for the day laborers in the streets and for the failure of the day labor centers, in spite of good faith efforts to work with both. Complaints received in calls about immigrant day laborers include day laborers creating traffic problems, leaving trash, loitering, making noise in residential areas when not working, urinating in public, rushing cars of potential employers in parking lots, frightening customers of local businesses, and committing crimes. Although unorganized day laborers and their employers do cause disorder, day laborers often become the community scapegoats for area nuisance misdemeanors and crimes that have no suspects.
Police training is a better solution. Key to this training is learning to understand day laborers. Understanding how day laborers think and why they behave as they do makes controlling a day labor situation easier, while misunderstandings can make it an ongoing headache. With the right training, police can manage day labor without spending an inordinate amount of time on the problem, and without causing bad publicity or even lawsuits.
Police and day laborers need to learn to work cooperatively together. With trained police officers, the unorganized day labor situation can be greatly improved, resulting in fewer calls for service, fewer complaints, and an organized system for legitimate complaints that do come up.
Our Services
We provide individualized training for officer trainers, evaluate and improve the day labor problem in your area, and work with day laborers and officers to establish a trusting work relationship necessary for the future. We provide a curriculum designed for your area to train officers in Day Labor Management. Properly trained officers will manage day labor in less time and without provoking problems that untrained officers often do. Unorganized day labor is a police problem, but managed day labor can be a police accomplishment.
In a major city, for example, we trained Police Officer Trainers in Day Labor Management, designed a Day Labor Curriculum for their police academy, and consulted with their police department on specific issues they had with their unusual population of day laborers from Poland, Mongolia, and multiple countries in South America. We've consulted with Police in California, all over the U.S. and as far away as Alaska on Day Labor Management.
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We would be pleased to provide initial explanations and information at no cost.
For ongoing assistance and consulting work whether simply investigative or to facilitate your program and/or program development, we will provide a specific costing scenario for your project.
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