The Community Action Team (CAT) was given various responsibilities in order to reduce crime and increase the quality of life for the citizens of Franklin. Those responsibilities included street level narcotics enforcement, enforcement of illegal sales and underage consumption of alcohol by minors, implementing and hosting neighborhood watch meetings, plain clothes surveillance, traffic enforcement in identified "High Crash" areas, served as liaison officers to Franklin Public Housing and the 21st Judicial Drug Court, and investigated misdemeanor crimes that weren't assigned to detectives in order to provide better services to our citizens. The following is a breakdown of those specific results which were completed by four part-time CAT members:

• Answered/initiated 1560 calls for service.
• Initiated 73 custodial drug arrests, 32 call driven arrests, and served/assisted in serving countless criminal warrants.
• Issued 87 traffic citations, completed 23 crash reports, and completed 125 offense reports.
• 180 misdemeanor cases were assigned to CAT members.  Only 30 still remain open.
• Participated/conducted 12 homeowners meetings.
• Initiated 28 Surveillance details.
• Conducted 3 underage sales of alcohol operations.  Each operation resulted in at least 1 business being cited for illegal sale of alcohol to an underage individual.  9 businesses had employees found guilty of criminal charges which included sanctions by the Franklin City Beer Board.  One repeat offender lost the ability to sell alcohol indefinitely.
• Assisted with the creation of the Franklin Housing Authority neighborhood watch program, which is a viable resource for the community.
• CAT members were solicited by citizens to help reduce traffic violations at North Carothers and Cool Springs Boulevard.  Team members were able to identify a problem with the intersection design and worked with the Franklin City Street Department to get this intersection corrected.
• Solicited by members of the community about a long term problem on their street which resulted in CAT members, again, working with the Franklin City Street Department to completely repair this problem.
• Completed 10 special operations problem-solving projects that were identified by fellow officers and citizens.