DEPARTMENTS MISSION STATEMENT

The Department’s mission is the protection of life and property, the maintenance of order and public peace, the preservation of individual, human and constitutional rights, the prevention and repression of crime, the enforcement of laws through the detection, identification and apprehension of law violators and the providing of service to the public. 
 
The Department accomplishes its mission through the actions of its personnel and their interaction with other people; internally with other officers and employees and externally with members of the public, other agencies and organizations.

Department personnel are required to make decisions involving the public and other employees in response to both administrative and operational problems. This decision process requires an insight into the objectives and purposes of the Department, its duty under the law and responsibility to the people, and the manner and means by which the task is to be performed and the objectives achieved. The requirement that such insight be utilized is implicit in all decision making, and it is the thread which binds the complex and difficult law enforcement task into a coordinated and effective force.