East Providence leaders will travel to Providence for discussion and collaboration on best practices for enhancing the safety of communities and their residents.
East Providence, RI – This week, Mayor DaSilva will travel to Providence to participate in a New England meeting of mayors and city police chiefs on best practices in city-level public safety and effective policing.
Forty mayors and police chiefs are expected to attend the meeting hosted by Providence Mayor Brett Smiley and the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM), including East Providence Police Chief Christopher Francesconi.
“Our Administration is committed to ensuring we provide the best public safety services available to the residents of East Providence and being able to collaborate alongside 40 other municipalities from across New England will only help us continue our mission of making East Providence the best place to live, learn, work and play," Mayor Bob DaSilva said.
During the meeting, New England mayors and police chiefs will discuss and collaborate on best practices for addressing a variety of issues related to public safety and effective policing, as well as building relationships between local government and law enforcement. Key issues will include reducing gun violence, addressing recruitment and retention challenges, policing in the new federal environment, responding to increasing incidents of hate and violent extremism across the nation, and effective overdose prevention strategies.
The meeting comes as cities continue to make important progress on safety, with many seeing declines in homicides, other violent crime and property crimes over the last few years. Strengthening public safety has always been a top priority for mayors, and recent progress on reducing crime illustrates that the work being done at the local level to make cities safer is paying off.
