PAKPAC
Partnership with Law Enforcement Agencies

PAKPAC Partnership with Law Enforcement Agencies (PLEA) Program

PAKPAC has created a law enforcement partnership program. This program helps build relationship between the law enforcement agencies and the Pakistani-American community.

This program helps by increasing tools for recruitment of Pakistani-Americans in the law enforcement agencies, and developing strategies for successful engagement between the two groups, and increasing awareness and protocols for the communities.

This also provides the agency to understand the different American-Muslim community groups. The Pakistani-American community has many immigrants, who work in highly visible positions and different capacities in different areas, which range from store owners, gas station operators, cabdrivers to other positions including engineers, computer programers, physicians, etc.

The Pakistani-American community serves as one of the single largest group of South Asians in the United States. It is critical that the law enforcement agencies be aware of the protocols and the importance of understanding and differentiating between different communities.

It is also well known that the Pakistani-American community, which has been disproportionately, targeted for hundreds of hate crimes from obvious and in many cases not so obvious crimes. Most of these or many of these crimes have remained unreported, and there is a high risk of escalation of such hate based crimes if appropriate steps are not taken by the community.

One of the most critical steps that is necessity at this time is educating the agencies and the corporations with respect to the Pakistani-American community, and the different cases of the Pakistani-Americans and the American-Muslims. The PAKPAC training materials includes a PowerPoint presentation, handouts and educational information.

The PowerPoint Presentation Includes:

Pakistan-Basic Information

Pakistani American Community

Positive Role of Pakistani Amerians in the US-Society

Developing a Partnership with Law Enforcement Agencies

The handouts that will be available include:

1. Recommendations for law enforcement agencies on interacting with Pakistani-Americans and American-Muslims.
2. Resource paper on American-Muslims and Pakistani-Americans.
3. Who are South Asians and American-Muslims.
4. The common misconceptions and stereotypes.

Local Pakistani American Community Leaders interested in the PAKPAC PLEA Click here