How does accreditation benefit the citizens of Mount Vernon?
  • Confirms Mount Vernon Police Department's commitment to professionalism.
  • Enhances community's understanding of law enforcement, its goals, and objectives.
  • Assures the department's policies are effective, responsive, fair, and equitable and that the department is providing services of the highest quality.
  • Commits the department to a broad range of effective police service programs.
  • Ensures managerial and operational policies and procedures are in accord with statewide policing standards, and that the department continues to make a concerted effort to maintain that professional status.

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