HOW TO DEVELOP AN ACTION PLAN

There are several types of planning - strategic, long term, short term - we are calling ours “Action Planning”.

Community/Police Action Planning

As the title suggests, this is a joint task between the police and community partners to act on a problem or issue.

In problem solving we identify a problem/issue, conduct analysis, develop a goal and outline responses (called strategies).

Our aim now is to develop a plan of action to implement, monitor, evaluate and share our strategies.

Action Planning includes:

• describing the problem
• stating your goal
• identifying the responses (strategies) required to reach the goal
• identifying tasks to achieve each strategy (including evaluation to report on the completion and results of the strategy)

Included in the community policing guidelines manual is a completed sample action plan as well as a template that you can use during problem solving. It is a good idea to keep your written copy when you are done so that everyone at future meetings can recall what was agreed and also to report on their results.