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09/19/2007
COMMISSION ON
ACCREDITATION FOR LAW
NEWS RELEASE SPRING 2006 AWARDS March 27, 2006 The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA®) is pleased to announce the successful completion of its accreditation/recognition process by 84 agencies. These agencies received their awards, a highly prized recognition of public safety professional excellence, on March 25, 2006 in conjunction with CALEA’s Spring Conference in Jacksonville, Florida.
The awards signify the agencies have successfully met a body of performance standards in one of four public safety credentialing programs offered by CALEA: Law Enforcement Accreditation, Public Safety Communications Accreditation, Public Safety Training Academy Accreditation, and CALEA Recognition, for smaller law enforcement agencies. Today, there are CALEA agencies in Barbados, Mexico and the Caribbean, as well as those from the United States and Canada.
CALEA was established as an independent accrediting authority in 1979 by the four major law enforcement executive associations: International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP); National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE); National Sheriffs' Association (NSA); and Police Executive Research Forum (PERF). The Executive Directors of these four associations appoint a Commission composed of 21 members: 11 from the public safety profession and 10 members from the public and private sectors.
CALEA’s purpose and mission is two-fold. First, to establish a body of standards designed to increase agency effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of public safety services and, second, to establish and administer a series of accreditation programs through which public safety agencies can demonstrate voluntarily that they meet an established set of professionally recognized standards leading to excellence in management and service delivery.
The CALEA Accreditation/Recognition process, itself, is a proven modern management model. Once implemented, it presents an agency’s Chief Executive Officer, on a continuing basis, with a blueprint that promotes the efficient use of resources and improves service delivery - regardless of the size, geographic location, or functional responsibilities of the agency. The standards upon which CALEA’s programs are based reflect the current thinking and experience of public safety practitioners and researchers and are considered benchmarks for today's public safety agencies.
Agencies receive their awards after participating in a process that involves a commitment of personnel and other resources. The process can take up to 36 months for those agencies seeking CALEA Accreditation and 24 months for those agencies seeking CALEA Recognition. In many instances, however, the process is completed in a shorter time frame. During that period, all aspects of the agency’s policies, procedures, management, operations and support services are examined in detail. In addition, each agency conducts a detailed self-assessment and participates in an on-site review by a team of outside CALEA assessors, composed of experienced public safety practitioners.
Below are the agencies that received awards at the 2006 Jacksonville Conference. The number in parenthesis after each agency indicates the number of awards the agency has received to date. The agencies receiving Law Enforcement Accreditation Awards are: Arizona Gilbert Police Dept. (3rd)
Colorado Aurora Police Dept. (3rd) Littleton Police Dept. (1st)
Connecticut Connecticut State Capitol Police (2nd) Univ. of Connecticut Police Dept. (3rd)
D.C. George Washington Univ. Police Dept. (1st) United States Capitol Police (2nd)
Delaware DE State Div. of Fish & Wildlife (4th) Dover Police Dept. (3rd) Newark Police Dept. (4th)
Florida Aventura Police Dept. (3rd) Broward County Sheriff's Office (3rd) Coral Gables Police Dept. (4th) Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (4th) Martin County Sheriff's Office (4th) Miami Police Dept. (2nd) Neptune Beach Public Safety Dept. (4th) Palm Beach Gardens Police Dept. (4th) St. Johns County Sheriff's Office (5th) Volusia County Sheriff's Office (5th) West Palm Beach Police Dept. (1st)
Georgia Columbia County Sheriff's Office (4th) Cherokee County Sheriff's Office (4th) Moultrie Police Dept. (1st)
Iowa Marshall County Sheriff's Office (3rd)
Illinois Downers Grove Police Dept. (2nd) Lemont Police Dept. (2nd) McHenry Police Dept. (1st) Winnetka Police Dept. (4th) Zion Police Dept. (2nd)
Indiana Plainfield Metropolitan Police Dept. (4th)
Kansas Shawnee County Sheriff's Office (1st) Topeka Police Dept. (3rd)
Maryland Hyattsville City Police Dept. (3rd) Takoma Park Police Dept. (1st)
Michigan Huntington Woods Dept. of Public Safety (1st) Portage Police Dept. (2nd)
Missouri St. Joseph Police Dept. (2nd)
No. Carolina Beaufort County Sheriff's Office (1st) Kannapolis Police Dept. (3rd) NC State Bureau of Investigation (4th) Raleigh Police Dept. (5th) Wilson Police Dept. (6th)
Nebraska Douglas County Sheriff's Dept. (1st)
New Hampshire Hudson Police Dept. (2nd) Manchester Police Dept. (5th)
New Jersey Burlington Township Police Dept. (3rd) Mahwah Police Dept. (2nd)
New Mexico Albuquerque Police Dept. (5th)
New York Scarsdale Police Dept. (5th)
Ohio Boardman Police Dept. (1st) Delhi Township Police Dept. (3rd) Dublin Division of Police (5th) Hamilton Police Dept. (5th) Montgomery County Sheriff's Office (6th) Toledo Police Dept. (2nd) Trotwood Police Dept. (2nd)
Oregon Corvallis Police Dept. (4th) Medford Police Dept. (1st)
Pennsylvania Derry Township Police Dept. (4th) Lower Allen Township Police Dept. (4th)
Quebec Aeroports de Montreal (2nd)
Rhode Island Cumberland Police Dept. (2nd)
South Carolina Aiken Dept. of Public Safety (3rd) Goose Creek Police Dept. (2nd) Greenville Police Dept. (4th)
Tennessee Blount County Sheriff's Office (2nd) Collierville Police Dept. (4th) Dyersburg Police Dept. (3rd) Lebanon Dept. of Public Safety (2nd)
Texas Tyler Police Dept. (4th)
Virginia Arlington County Police Dept. (6th) Fairfax City Police Dept. (5th)
The agencies receiving Public Safety Communications Accreditation Awards are: Arizona Tucson Airport Authority - Communications/Dispatch (2nd)
Oklahoma Tulsa Public Safety Response Center (1st)
Virginia Chesterfield Emergency Communications (1st) Prince William County Office of Public Safety Communications (2nd)
The agencies receiving Public Safety Training Academy Accreditation Awards are: Hawaii Honolulu Police Department Training Academy (1st)
Pennsylvania Northeast Counter-Drug Training Center (1st)
The agencies receiving CALEA Recognition Awards are: Ohio Bexley Police Department (2nd)
New Hampshire Londonderry Police Department (1st)
New Jersey Berkeley Heights Township Police Department (1st) New Providence Police Department (1st)
Washington Washington Dept. of Fish & Wildlife Enforcement (2nd)
Source: Sylvester Daughtry Jr., Executive Director, 10302 Eaton Place, Suite 100 Fairfax, VA 22030 (800) 368-3757 X31 - Website: www.calea.org
09/19/2007
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