Today's Race Relations Council

As it exists now, the Race Relations Council is a group of citizens and officers who have come together in Lowell to discuss improving relations between diverse community members and police officers. The Lowell Police Department’s Training Director and Superintendent of Police are key members in the group so that policy decisions can be made.

The goals of the Council are:

Education
Communication
Understanding
Unification
Generation of Recommendations for action

The Council meets monthly in different community locations. The Race Relations Council has been used as a conduit by which expectations are discussed and identified. The ideas generated are used to provide a foundation for the future trainings at Lowell Police Department’s Training Institute, which currently trains over 1100 officers annually from communities throughout Massachusetts.