| Sumario: | Police departments in cities such as Coral Springs, Florida, and Bend, Oregon, are forging partnerships with private sector businesses that permit use of their desks, phones, and office equipment. This represents a new concept in community policing that allows officers to project a higher profile in neighborhoods at minimal costs. The businesses usually pay for the phones and other equipment, in addition to the promotional placards advertising the police presence. The officers make use of the mini-police stations to complete paperwork, meet with the public, make phone calls, and send and receive faxes.
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