MPSA Patrol

Serving Midtowners

An effective public security blueprint for a neighborhood like ours must have a proactive patrol at its core.

The MPSA Patrol serves as our primary strategy in reducing crime and undesirable activity in our neighborhood. We launched the MPSA Patrol in 2003 to stabilize the neighborhood from the effects of increasing criminal and undesirable activity on our streets. Surrounding areas all had patrols, thereby creating a drainage effect on what later became the MPSA service area.

The MPSA Patrol helps to provide our neighborhood with localized, proactive and problem-oriented patrolling. Neighborhoods such as ours need to supplement regular police coverage with off-duty officer patrols due to understaffing and under-equipment of regular police operations.

The MPSA coordinates funding for this patrol, which operates according to budgetary considerations and overall neighborhood security needs. The MPSA devotes its budget almost exclusively toward the patrol. We provide the officers with a schedule, map, and a vehicle, who then work for us within the guidelines set by the Atlanta Police Department, and other laws and regulations affecting law enforcement.

The MPSA Patrol provides APD officers the opportunity to spend time in our neighborhood and to take a closer look at what drives the problems here. They often pick up very useful information that they can work with in regular APD positions.

Our beautiful neighborhood has come a long way since we established the MPSA Patrol, yet much work remains. So please join today if you live or work in our service area.