Mesa Police Department Diversity Team
480.644.6600

Working together to increase awareness and acceptance of diversity in the Mesa Police Department and the community through inclusion, education and opportunity.

As the Diversity Team reaches out to Mesa's diverse community, we offer our services in participation and education about the world we live in.

We offer the following diversity presentations:

• Race and Diversity

• Police Culture

• Hearing Impaired and Mental Disabilities

We have worked with:

• Citizen groups

• Colleges and Universities

• High schools

• Grade schools

• Various religious groups

The Mesa Police Department Cultural Awareness Team can be reached by phone at (480) 644-6600, using the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page, or by mail at 130 N. Robson Street, Mesa Arizona 85201.

The Team has participated or is currently participating in the following:

• Mediation between police and citizens. This includes, but is not limited to, members explaining police action and attempts to diffuse disputes.

• Health and Safety Fairs.

• Development of a Scholarship program for Mesa students. 

• Participation of Team members in the Anytown program. This includes sending officers, with pay, for a week at the camp. This camp deals in diversity training for youth from the city and state.

• Holiday projects are attended by Team members for representation by the Mesa Police Department. This includes such events as Martin Luther King holiday and Cinco de Mayo. Members make invaluable contacts with various citizens and community activists.

• Neighborhood and Community functions are attended by Team members to assist with relations. Most communities are surprised to learn that a Team such as this exists.

• Some members are also police recruiters. The Team has representation at some of the recruiting events depending on the event and the location.

• Members contact other police agencies to inquire as to other diversity programs and training in which we may participate.

• Members have assisted other police agencies in training or development of diversity programs.

• Members have also been involved in park projects. These projects involve getting a community/neighborhood out at a local park for a series of nights throughout the summer. The officers will then play games with the children and parents are given information on local assistance programs.  Local religious leaders are also invited to participate and spend time at play with parishioners. The Fire Department is also invited to show off the truck and, weather permitting, let the kids cool off.

Internal Projects:

• Membership in the following:

  • Mesa Police Recruiting Team

  • City Diversity Team

  • Peer Support Team

  • Career Advisor Program

  • Advisory Committee on Minority and Employee Affairs

  • Mentor Program

  • various instructional positions in the Department

• Liaisons for Community/Citizen Activists or organizations

Facilitation:

Members facilitate or have facilitated in Cultural Diversity, Awareness and Sensitivity training at and for the following:

• Mesa Police Academy - Recruits

• Mesa Police Training facility - Continuing Officer Education (COE) - All Department members

• Mesa Police Communications - 911, fire and police dispatchers

• Citizen's Police Academy

• Victim Assistance Program

• Local Colleges and Universities

• Mesa Public Schools - preschool, grade school and high schools

• Local religious communities

• Boys and Girls Club

• Neighborhoods - meetings and Neighborhood Watch

• Citizen groups

• Other City agencies