Welcome to the Community Advisory Council page. Our intent is to communicate the activities of the Advisory Council and how it will assist the Beverly Police department and the citizens of Beverly, Ma. We meet once a month and welcome participation.

The Beverly Police Department Community Advisory Council (CAC) is an all-volunteer committee representative of the City of Beverly. The CAC is intended to foster and facilitate communication and understanding between the Beverly Police Department and the community. It is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the City's neighborhoods. The goal is to identify and prioritize community needs and concerns as well as recommending measures for addressing them to the Police Department. By developing a partnership between the community and the Policed, the citizens will become educated on police practices and procedures, and the Police Department becomes better informed about the community. We encourage all persons who live, work or use services in the community to participate in our council meetings. People who are interested in our Council and would further information can feel free to contact Sergeant Phil McCarthy at (978)921-6040 ext. 2520 or pmccarthy@beverlyma.gov

Our next meeting is Tuesday, July 12, 2011. This meeting will be held at the Landmark School at the President's Lodge from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM and is our annual Police Department Recognition Day. All Police Department Personnel, their family and friends are invited to attend.


Below is the schedule for this year:

August 9, 2011
September 13, 2011
October 11, 2011
November 8, 2011
December 13, 2011 .

WE ARE LOOKING FOR NEW MEMBERS WHO WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY. We welcome new participants to our group. If you want to help, listen and/or be involved, feel free to drop in to one of our meetings.

Our meetings are usually held at the Beverly Public Library, in the Sohier Room at 7 P.M. unless otherwise indicated.

Become a fan, become a fan of the Beverly Police Department on Facebook. We are proud to announce our Facebook Page. You will find us at this site:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beverly-Community-Advisory-Committee

We have initiated a Graffiti Task Force and recently a community check was done and a list of areas with graffiti was presented to Chief Ray for action. Activities on graffiti removal continue. We are currently discussing a process of notification of graffiti as well as a way in which to contact landlords and merchants where graffiti has been seen. We are exploring a multi-media notification system where anyone can call or email a location of graffiti.

Lists will be compiled and the appropriate city department will notify the Sheriff's department for clean up activities.

A reverse 911 system is in place and if residents or businesses are interested in being notified by the Police Department regarding important notices and information, they are invited to contact the police station on their business line or visit the police station to set up their contact information. Information is also on www.beverlyma.gov and select the police department link for further information as well.

A medication take-back program was conducted at 55 Tozier Road on September 25. People who had medications in their home and could dispose of them by bringing them to the medication take back program. This program was a huge success and will be scheduled again for the sometime in the spring.

Consumer Reports recently published an article entitled "7 Things To Stop Doing Now on Facebook" this article can be found at the following web site address: http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/109538/7-things-to-stop-doing-now-on-facebook. This article gives directions on how to use Facebook safely and how to monitor the usage of facebook by young people.


The accomplishments for the year of 2010 are as follows:

The completion of 2 service brochures for use by the Police Department when on patrol and are available at the Police Station.
The completion of several Citizen's Police Academies.

Discussions of issues as they occurred; such as marijuana law changes, fraud presentation, domestic violence presentation, high school lock-downs, license plate reader, bike rodeos, and MLEC traffic award.

The development and implementation of a comprehensive noise ordinance/motor cycle check points during the warmer months.

A recognition cookout for the Police Department.

The development and production of several BEVCAM television shows.

A list of sites where there was graffiti was developed and members from the sheriff's Department assisted in cleaning up these areas.
We had 2 Medication Take Back Days, and we will schedule more for the coming year.

The year of 2010 appears to be a busy one as we look ahead. We are examining Youth Risk Behaviors and are in the process of developing programs and/or suggestions for curriculum for elementary, junior and high school teens. Some of this data may even affect college students as well as parents of school age children, and other interested citizens.

We will endeavor to do more telecasts in a partnership with BEVCAM TV.

A Police Explorer Post is being considered and the application to the Boy Scouts is currently under review.

Activities in Volunteers in Policing are forth coming, as well as the creation of a Police Department Foundation.

For the sake of redundancy, several issues that are currently tabled remain posted on our website.

Welcome to new recipients of this little blog, we also encourage your input here as well.

If you have anything to add or would like to share any ideas you are welcome to attend our next meeting or you can
contact the Public Information Department at the Police Department. Please note that the website for the Beverly Police Department is now www.beverlypd.org.

Please Note: Due to improving software and development, this site will be incorporated into the Beverly Police Department Web Site. When this site is activated,
This web site will no longer be active. The specific date of this transition in unknown at this time, but when it is, we will post it. We hope you enjoy the newer site, as much as we are looking forward to being part of it. Thanks for dropping in.