Goals and Purpose

TRIAD & SALT Council Goals

TRIAD and the SALT Council intend to:

Assist local law enforcement officials in planning for future needs of a rapidly growing, aging population
Assist in the development of programs designed to educate seniors concerning certain facts and myths regarding victimization of the older population
Improve the sensitivity of local law enforcement personnel, thereby assisting sheriff's deputies and other lawmen in becoming more effective in their interactions with elderly victims of crime
Assist in reducing the fear of crime within targeted senior-populated neighborhoods through St. Charles Parish
Assist in the delivery of victim assistance for and by older persons
Expand the roles of senior volunteers within law enforcement agencies

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

For more information, please call Special Services at (985) 783-1355.