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Police Advisory Board

This board is comprised of volunteer community members who meet regularly to provide input to the Chief of Police. The board members also meet with other department members in various sub-committees that deal with such topics as Budget, Personnel, Technology, Homeland Security, Community Involvement, and others.

The current members of the committee are:

Joe Aguanno
Bjorn Ahlstrom
Steve Albrecht
Elizabeth Amenta-Avner
Jack Becker
Dorothy Bowens
Norm Brown
Sidney Craig
Taylor Cushmore
Maureen Ferriter
Alex Gura
Sven Holm
Rich Hutcheson
Marty Lovitz
Dick Mandell
Joy Meredith
Manuel Montoya
Venessa Wilcox
John Williams
Joann Wolff

MISSION STATEMENT

We, the members of the Palm Springs Citizen's Police Advisory Board are committed to:

  1. Act as liaison between the community and the police department.
  2. Promote community awareness, understanding and involvement of police programs and services.
  3. Provide an avenue to identify problems and/or issues from the community to the police department and from the police department to the community.
  4. Advocate quality in law enforcement by promoting education and training of all police department personnel and volunteers.

To fulfill this mission, we the members, agree to listen to the needs of the community and the police department in the interest of providing advice and guidance to serve the greatest mutual benefit of all.

To contact a member of the board send an email to: advisory@pspd.com