CALEA Certification Achieved

Over the weekend at the CALEA (Commission on Law Enforcement Accreditation) annual conference our Police Department went through the final phase of our certification process. The good news is that we are now fully certified, one of less then 1,000 departments nationwide.

Four years ago when I made sweeping changes in the police department I promised improvement in this blog post on the day we swore our new Chief Cliff Metaxa in.

I am proud to say we delivered, the efforts of the Round Lake Police Department management team and rank and file in the process leading up to this certification has been superb. I am and every resident in this village should be incredibly proud of all the hard work they did for us.

Here is what certification mean to us:

• Policies and procedures that are state of the art and proven to stand up in court which will allow our conviction rate to be even higher then it is now.
• Our insurance rates will drop, since we can prove out our procedures are the safest and most acceptable out there.
• Our officers will always be trained in the safest and most efficient ways to handle all situations you will be safer because of it and so will our officers.

I invite you to congratulate each and every officer of our police department when you see them, because without the buy in they had on professionalism we could never have done this.