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Program Standards Benefits Eligibility Cost Process Enrollment 02/03/2009 The Program The CALEA Recognition Program was designed to meet the needs of smaller law enforcement agencies, and may also serve as a stepping stone to the Law Enforcement Accreditation Program. Agencies of any size may enroll in and receive the CALEA Recognition Award; however, only agencies with 24 or fewer full time personnel may remain in the program after its initial three-year award period. A special reduced-fee schedule is applied to those agencies transitioning to the Law Enforcement Accreditation Program. The CALEA Recognition Program identifies 112 standards from the Standards for Law Enforcement Agencies accreditation manual. These standards address (1) life, health and safety issues, (2) critical legal issues, and (3) conditions that reduce risk and high liability exposure. All the standards are mandatory, if applicable by agency function. Agencies in the CALEA Recognition Program follow the same process steps as accreditation: enrollment, self-assessment, on-site assessment, Commission review and decision, and maintaining compliance and Re-recognition. Agencies must remain in compliance with applicable standards, maintain its proofs of compliance, and live by the letter and spirit of those standards. They must also submit to CALEA annually the appropriate continuation fees and a CALEA Agency Annual Report.
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