Purpose
TRIAD's Purpose
- Support the involvement of law enforcement practitioners, as well as citizens of all ages, in the development, implementation, and evaluation of acceptable solutions to reducing crime against the elderly
- Mobilize community resources to continually ascertain the needs and concerns of older citizens and provides a mechanism for meeting those needs
- Enable law enforcement agencies to share resources that can effectively be utilized to develop and achieve a highly visible and effective means of identifying available programs or possible solutions to reducing the criminal victimization of the parish's elderly population
- Foster the development and maintenance of a local advisory panel to law enforcement called Seniors and Lawmen Working Together (SALT)
- The panel's chief role is to determine the needs and existing resources within the parish that may be better utilized to plan effective strategies to combat crimes against the elderly
- The panel is also is charged with creating a network to develop volunteer support roles for senior citizens that wish to assist in planning for and alleviating some of the root causes of elderly victimization