Safe Stops

Everyday our emergency responders face pressures and threats from every direction. To provide a place where emergency responders can escape, rest, and be safe to write reports, re-energize, and take care of needs, Safe Stops were launched. Below is a description, video, and link to resources that may help you launch a Safe Stop in your community.

What is a SAFE STOP?

Safe stops provide a safe and geographically strategic location for local law enforcement to use a bathroom, write reports, rest in a safe place.
They follow the hospital model for first responder rooms that exists in most local hospitals.
They are designed to provide an avenue for local churches to show care and support to law enforcement in a culturally appropriate way.
Safe Stops, on the short term, are designed to help everyday, but are also set up to be potential staging locations for major incidents or disasters. (Katrina, Columbine, etc.)
Safe stops are considered as a gift to the law enforcement community through a particular location. The emphasis is on the community not the host.
Safe stops create potential for quiet healing moments for law enforcement during the normal day.
Safe stops do not belong to police department, but are available for their use.
Safe stops help create informal trusting connections between law enforcement and the community in Wheat Ridge.
Click here for a list of resources that you can download.