Buckhead Coalition to Aid Police Officers Live in Community

The Buckhead Coalition will participate in a program to provide funds for Atlanta police officers to live in Buckhead.

The coalition will also join forces with the Buckhead Community Improvement District and the Atlanta Police Foundation in an effort to have private surveillance cameras linked to the Atlanta Police Department's video monitoring system. The CID and the Police Foundation are also partners in the police residency program.

"The residency program makes $3,000 available to each uniformed officer who moves into Buckhead, in addition to whatever rent concessions can be negotiated," according to a news release from the Buckhead Coalition.

To make the program even more attractive, Atlanta Police Chief George Turner has agreed to make a police car available to each officer in the program to drive home. 

Buckhead Coalition President Sam Massell said in the annoucement that “Such presence of uniformed personnel living throughout the neighborhoods will be a dramatic deterrent to crime, and can result in increased arrest records.”   

The camera initiative is an effort to tie privately owned equipment at retail outlets, office buildings and other businesses to a central monitoring station.  

The CID will cover the area within its boundaries, and the coalition will be responsible for the balance of the 28 square miles of official Buckhead. The coalition is earmarking $40,000 for the first stage of these new public safety programs.