Neighbourhood Empowerment Team (NET)

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NET (Neighbourhood Empowerment Team) responds to repeated or significant incidents that may impact the security and safety of Edmontonians across the city. Our aim is to reduce the fear of crime and social disorder amongst community members.

The Neighbourhood Empowerment Team (NET), a partnership between the City of Edmonton, Edmonton Police Service and The Family Centre, works with residents, communities, businesses, and organizations to build solutions to create safe and vibrant neighbourhoods and communities.

Resources for Safer Communities

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Self Assessment

This questionnaire explains the concepts of CPTED and then guides citizens through a series of questions to help self-assess their property. Afterwards, respondents receive feedback on strategies they can use to make their property safer.

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Printed copies of any resource are available by request. Please email NET@edmonton.ca with your details.

Resources in Other Languages

Amharic

Business Safety Guide (Amharic)

9pm Routine (Amharic)

Encouraging Positive Interactions (Amharic)

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (Amharic)

Personal Safety for Individuals (Amharic)

Personal Safety for Businesses (Amharic)

Arabic

Safer Business Spaces (Arabic)

Business Safety Guide (Arabic)

9pm Routine (Arabic)

Encouraging Positive Interactions (Arabic)

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (Arabic)

Personal Safety for Individuals (Arabic)

Personal Safety for Businesses (Arabic)

French

Safer Business Spaces (French)

Business Safety Guide (French)

9pm Routine (French)

Encouraging Positive Interactions (French)

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (French)

Personal Safety for Individuals (French)

Personal Safety for Businesses (French)

Punjabi

Business Safety Guide (Punjabi)

9pm Routine (Punjabi)

Encouraging Positive Interactions (Punjabi)

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (Punjabi)

Personal Safety for Individuals (Punjabi)

Personal Safety for Businesses (Punjabi)

Simplified Chinese

Safer Business Spaces (Simplified Chinese)

Business Safety Guide (Simplified Chinese)

Encouraging Positive Interactions (Simplified Chinese)

9pm Routine (Simplified Chinese)

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (Simplified Chinese)

Personal Safety for Individuals (Simplified Chinese)

Personal Safety for Businesses (Simplified Chinese)

Traditional Chinese

Safer Business Spaces (Traditional Chinese)

Business Safety Guide (Traditional Chinese)

9pm Routine (Traditional Chinese)

Encouraging Positive Interactions (Traditional Chinese)

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (Traditional Chinese)

Personal Safety for Individuals (Traditional Chinese)

Personal Safety for Businesses (Traditional Chinese)

Somali

Safer Business Spaces (Somali)

Business Safety Guide (Somali)

9pm Routine (Somali)

Encouraging Positive Interactions (Somali)

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (Somali)

Personal Safety for Individuals (Somali)

Personal Safety for Businesses (Somali)

Spanish

Business Safety Guide (Spanish)

9pm Routine (Spanish)

Encouraging Positive Interactions (Spanish)

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (Spanish)

Personal Safety for Individuals (Spanish)

Personal Safety for Businesses (Spanish)

Vietnamese

Safer Business Spaces (Vietnamese)

Business Safety Guide (Vietnamese)

9pm Routine (Vietnamese)

Encouraging Positive Interactions (Vietnamese)

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (Vietnamese)

Personal Safety for Individuals (Vietnamese)

Personal Safety for Businesses (Vietnamese)

Virtual Presentations

The Neighbourhood Empowerment Team (NET) hosts virtual presentations developed in response to community interest and to address safety concerns. Can’t make it to our presentation? Live presentations can be arranged for groups of 15 or more.

Upcoming Presentations

Follow NET on Eventbrite to pre-register for any upcoming presentations at no cost. For questions about presentations or the materials, contact NET@edmonton.ca.

Current Presentations

Encouraging Positive Interactions

Learn more about Edmonton's vulnerable and homeless population as shelters and supportive housing moves into new neighbourhoods.

Business Safety

This presentation will help you to have an increased understanding of what contributes to business safety.

Residential Property Safety

This presentation will provide information on factors that contribute to crime, ways to protect your property, who you should report concerns to and why reporting is important.

Youth Response Training

This training was developed to help community businesses and organizations learn more positive ways of responding to others and ways of responding more effectively to perceived problematic youth behaviours.

NET - This Is Who We Are

Background

The origins of Edmonton’s Neighbourhood Empowerment Team (NET) date back over 20 years.

Dickensfield Community Partnership in Northeast Edmonton, identified an opportunity to reduce crime and strengthen prevention by working in partnership with Edmonton Police Service (EPS). This observation fed the now apparent notion that the Dickensfield community would be better served if community agencies and EPS worked together and inspired the formation of NET.

What started as informal meetings and EPS ride-alongs in an effort to better align services soon turned into a mindset for community safety and community policing in Edmonton. A conviction that community safety is best achieved through partnerships.

NET has seen a lot of changes over the past 20 years, from a single two-person team back in 1997 to 6 teams today.

Where Are We Now?

NET still comprises the Edmonton Police Service (EPS), The City of Edmonton and The Family Centre.

Going forward NET will address concerns based on recurring issues or situations that are identified. NET will now expand their current geographical area of responsibility from neighbourhood to EPS Divisions. Each EPS Division will be connected to liaisons from both the City and The Family Centre.

The liaisons will be tasked with active engagement and community outreach with a lens for potential issues. Once identified, partner organizations (the former NET management team) will consider the issue and arrange and mobilize resources relevant. The supports required from EPS will be determined and engaged based on the needs presented in each situation.

This approach will allow for multiple collaborative response teams to be engaged city-wide. Staff aligned with the partnership will no longer be tied to exclusive geography - positioning the approach to be applied where it is needed, when it is needed and then redeployed when the need subsides.

Neighbourhood Response Guide

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