The opening article emphasizes the importance of partnerships with community leaders and residents under a community-policing paradigm as a resource for detecting suspicious activity that may be related to a terrorist plot. This is followed by a description of the proceedings of the 2007 Criminal Intelligence Sharing Summit, which was attended by Federal, State, local, and tribal law enforcement executives. Participants measured the progress and impact of intelligence gathering, sharing, analysis, and use in the 5 years since the first summit. The next article focuses on the purpose of partnerships in the community-policing context. The focus is on the interrelated goals of increasing trust and improving collaborative problem solving efforts. Another report describes the features of the Meth 360 initiative launched by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. This program is designed as a multidisciplinary community outreach program intended to improve law enforcement efforts to counter the impact of methamphetamine and mobilize parents and concerned citizens to take action in preventing meth use. This is followed by a description of the Vera Institute of Justice’s efforts to develop best practices for overcoming language barriers for agency personnel who interact with persons having limited or no ability to speak English. Descriptions of recent COP activities address its fiscal year 2008 budget and the experiences of Orange County (Florida) in organizing and implementing a multijurisdictional, nonemergency 311 telephone system.