PD earns an `A' from state board; Review cites town's compliance.Byline: Jean Laquidara Hill HOLDEN Holden, town (1990 pop. 14,628), Worcester co., central Mass., a residential suburb of Worcester; settled 1723, set off and inc. 1741. Manufactures include electrical and metal products, plastics, and machinery. - The Police Department has been re-certified for another three years by the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission, a status attained by only 16 police departments in the state. Donna Taylor Mooers, executive director of the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission, told selectmen SELECTMEN. The name of certain officers in several of the United States, who are invested by the statutes of the several states with various powers. Monday night that the department had achieved the honor by choosing to comply with 151 professional standards set by the accreditation commission. The Police Department was first certified See certification. in 2004 for three years, and was inspected and assessed starting in the fall of this year for re-certification for another three years. The assessment team toured the Police Department, then spent many hours at the Holden Senior Center, where police officers brought requested information to be examined. There is not enough room at the police station for the assessment team to conduct its evaluation, Ms. Mooers told selectmen, commenting on the department's willingness to carry information back and forth from the police station to the Senior Center. She described the certification process as a willingness to have the department's entire operation laid bare for the evaluation team so they could determine whether the department has developed and adhered to professional policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental , as required for certification. In addition to helping a police department attain high professional standards and develop operational standards, certification lowers a police department's liability, said Ms. Mooers. Among categories on which the department was evaluated are: evidence collection and preservation, record keeping, training and career development, fiscal management, administration and discipline. Lt. Donald A. Ball is accreditation manager for the department, spending many hours maintaining written policies and procedures and keeping records to demonstrate that the department is complying with the 151 standards, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Police Chief George R. Sherrill. The Accreditation Council Accreditation Council may refer to:
The other 15 police departments that are certified are Barnstable, Brewster, Burlington, Chelsea, Concord, Easton, Fall River, Groveland, Northeastern University Northeastern University, at Boston, Mass.; coeducational; founded 1898 as a program within the Boston YMCA, inc. 1916, university status 1922, fully independent of the YMCA 1948. , Oak Bluffs, Reading, Somerset, Uxbridge, Wenham and Westfield State College WSC was founded in 1838 in Barre, Massachusetts as a normal school. WSC was the first coeducational normal school in the United States. Since the 1970's, the school has expanded its program to include criminal justice, mass communications, regional planning, political science, urban . NAME: HOLDEN POLICE DEPARTMENT; HOLDEN SELECTMEN |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion