Housing Officer PatchThe Somersworth Police Mini Station is accessable to all Albert J. Nadeau Homes residents and serves as a deterant to crime and a place to give the community direct access to the Somersworth Police Department.


Sgt. David Pratt
Sgt. David Pratt is the Somersworth Housing Officer.

  

All Somersworth Police Officers have access and are encouraged to use the Mini Station and visit the Youth Safe Haven.

The Mini Station also serves to involve the community in a neighborhood coalition to collect information and prevent crime in their own neighborhood.

Also acts as a hub for the court diversion program [Chances] providing community service to youth instead of traditional judicial penalties. All communtiy service is overseen by the Somersworth Housing Officer Sgt. David Pratt.


Sgt. Pratt & the youth
at the Safe Haven.

He joined the Somersworth PD on November 17, 1980 and started at the Housing Authority in June of 2000 through a COPS Grant.

When the Somersworth Youth Safe Haven/ Police Mini Station, founded by the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation, began in November of 2000, Sgt. Pratt was integrated into the program.

His responsibilities include:

  • Mobile and foot patrol of all Housing Authority properties
  • Work with Safe Haven staff in support of program (Mentoring youth).
  • Provide safety classes to youth: Bike, Helmet, "Operation Life Saver" Train Safety, Drug Prevention Awareness.
  • Working hands on with elderly residents of the Housing Authority
  • Filing all reports and follow-ups
  • Parking Enforcement
  • Hates Crime Officer for city of Somersworth.
  • Recommends one (1) youth per year to attend the NH Police Cadet Training Academy.