Police Department Anti Crime Team (ACT)
The mission of the department’s 30 member Anti-Crime Team (ACT) is to reduce violent crime in our community, focusing on illegal guns and gang activity. The team began its work in July 2006 and has achieved remarkable success. The main duties and responsibilities of the Anti-Crime Team are to provide arrest teams for violent offenders and conduct gang suppression activities. Additionally, the ACT is utilized to locate victims and witnesses in major case investigations or other violent crime incidents, conduct covert surveillance on habitual violent offenders or in high crime neighborhoods. Team members work closely with the established neighborhood groups to provide a sense of teamwork within the community. Tactics and responsibilities evolve as needed to best address the overall mission; to reduce violent crime in the City.
The work of the ACT is funded in part, by grants from Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), Weed and Seed and the Judicial Administration Grant (JAG). ACT members consist of patrol sergeants, patrol officers and detectives working together in a proactive environment to target violent offenders for arrest. Once arrested, the targeted violent offenders are prosecuted by a special ACT prosecutor of the Macon County State’s Attorney’s Office or the U.S. Attorney.
The Crime Analysis Unit plays a major role in providing the much needed information for the proper allocation of resources and the proper reporting of statistics to the Department of Justice for grant maintenance. The ACT works in conjunction with the United States Attorney’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Marshal’s Service, the Macon County State’s Attorney’s Office, and others.