NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Top brass at the NYPD met with approximately 800 members of the city's clergy representing a variety of faiths Monday morning.

Speaking at the department's Clergy All-In Conference, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton focused on community involvement and the NYPD's counterterrorism threat assessment program.

"You are those who we seek to work with to ensure that we strengthen the garment, that we need to enclose ourselves in, so that we can protect ourselves from all the threats of today and tomorrow," Bratton said.

The police commissioner outlined their common cause saying, "We're in the business of saving lives, you're particularly in the business of saving souls, we have a shared responsibility to work together."

He said the department is working on building trust.

"To build it where we have it, to find it where we do not, to strengthen it at all costs," he said.

The NYPD disbanded its mosque surveillance program last year amid complaints of racial profiling.

The conference was as much about enlightening the religious on NYPD programs, as it was about reassuring them in these troubled times of terror attacks, 1010 WINS' Juliet Papa reported.

"We will face it together, and we can calm those fears, we can calm those waters," Bratton said. "We are the United States of America, we are New Yorkers and we are resilient."