C A P

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CAP is about making your downtown experience a Safe and Friendly one. We pride ourselves on a quick response time and an attitude of service. Listed below are the services we provide free to anyone in the CAP Service Area during our CAP Hours of operation.

CAP’s official mission is to promote downtown by increasing safety and perception of safety. We do that by providing CAP Services --patrol and security escorts. The availability of stranded motorist assistance creates a comfort factor--help is free and only a few minutes away.

With the support of City Center businesses, ONB (Operation New Birmingham) helped form the CAP (City Action Partnership) safety guide program in 1995 to improve the safety and perception of safety in the area. It took a legislative act and a city ordinance to create the BID (Business Improvement District). The laws provide for an assessment on the property owners, which is currently .001 of the assessed property value ($1 for every $1,000 dollars of value). This funds the organization, which is non-profit and allows CAP to provide services free of charge. CAP is governed by a separate board of directors representing property owners within the BID who work to promote the CAP safety program.

CAP officers have served as ambassadors for downtown, guiding visitors and providing free stranded motorist services to residents, visitors and employees.

City Action Partnership is a nonprofit organization enabled by state legislation and city ordinance to provide services in the downtown core in Birmingham, Alabama. Since 1995, CAP has worked in partnership with government, businesses, residents and particularly, the Birmingham Police Department to improve safety and perception of safety to those who work, live, or visit the heart of the city. During that time, crime has plummeted 64%, making the downtown comparable to the safest cities in the metro area. The CAP officers in red shirts and black pants are familiar sights as they ride their bikes or patrol in vehicles with rotating green lights, adding an element of security and friendliness to the downtown experience. They give advice and directions, jump dead batteries, air up flat tires, provide security escorts and rescue keys from locked vehicles. Services are free of charge, as the program is supported by the property owners inside the district.

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