Captain Wagner, Division Commander
The Community Engagement Division (CED) Commander oversees the daily operations of the four Neighborhood Policing Centers, North, East, Central and West. Each NPC is tasked with managing resources and coordinating efforts to reduce crime in their assigned geographic areas, while addressing issues of neighborhood livability. Each NPC is managed by an Area Commander and staffed with a group of Sergeants, School Resource Officers, Problem Oriented Policing Officers, Park and Neighborhood Specialist, and Community Service Officers. The collective staff strives to address emerging crime trends, maintain safe school campuses, create safe parks and neighborhoods, reduce retail crime and develop working partnerships with all of our Riverside communities.
Find Your Neighborhood Policing District (NPC)
The (CED) includes the Downtown Entertainment District (DED) team, which focuses on working with downtown business operators, security, and others to make downtown a safe place to live, work and visit.
CED also includes eight officers assigned to the City's Public Safety and Engagement Team (PSET). This multi-departmental team focuses on homeless issues throughout the City. Those wanting to report non-criminal homeless issues can do so through the City's 3-1-1 system. Additional information can be found at https://www.riversideca.gov/homelesssolutions/
Another resource in CED is the Community Behavioral Health Assessment Team (CBAT). The CBAT team consists of two specially trained police officers and two County of Riverside clinical therapists who respond to calls for law enforcement service involving mental health issues in our community. The officers and therapists ride together in the same patrol car. At each call they handle, the therapist takes the lead role in evaluating the behavioral health issue while the officer provides the safety over-watch and law enforcement expertise.