Sergeant Eric Franz had been a member of the Cincinnati Police Department since September of 1991

OCPA Crime Prevention Practitioner of the Year –

Departments of More than 100 Officers

Eric Franz

Sergeant Eric Franz had been a member of the Cincinnati Police Department since September of 1991. During the course of his career with the Department, Eric has served as a beat officer; neighborhood officer; citizens on patrol coordinator; volunteer supervisor.

Eric currently serves as the Neighborhood Community Problem Oriented Policing Supervisor for District 3. Working with the 13 neighborhoods in the District, Eric has quickly established a dialog with community leaders, business owners, residents and other city agencies that was previously non-existent. Eric has played a critical role in the formation of the Western Hills Safe City Corridor Program. This program forms and links Neighborhood and Business Watch programs with schools, media, local government and law enforcement using cutting-edge technology, such as Citizen Observer, surveillance cameras and mobile police patrols on Segway Personal Transportation Devices. Eric has led the charge that’s gotten $300,000 in donations and an additional $635,000 in pledges for an internet-based camera system for the corridor.

In 2006 Eric worked with the staff of OCPA to create a Neighborhood/Business Watch and Train-the-Trainer program. It is Eric’s belief that law enforcement cannot make change without major assistance from members of the community. To that end Eric, has taught well over 60 Neighborhood Watch classes in his career and was truly honored to be asked to assist in the state-wide program.

During his career Eric has presented crime prevention topics in numerous forums, including at the University of Cincinnati, Xavier University, Northern Kentucky University, Tri-State RCPI, and Brown Mackie College. It was with Eric’s guidance that in 2006, OCPA joined with WCPO TV9 in a weekly crime prevention segment featured during the evening news.

As an academy instructor, Eric serves as a mentor to the many new officers hired by the Department. Eric maintains several large databases and libraries of instructional crime prevention items which assist newer officers in solving neighborhood issues in the most effective manner.

It is because of these achievements and Sergeant Eric Franz’s hard work in Cincinnati and across the state that we recognize him as OCPA Practitioner of the Year for Departments with more than 100 sworn officers.