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09/19/2007
COMMISSION ON
ACCREDITATION FOR LAW
NEWS RELEASE August 1, 2006
The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA®) is pleased to announce the successful awarding of its accreditation/recognition certificates to 82 agencies. These agencies received their certificates on July 29, 2006, in conjunction with CALEA’s Summer Conference in Lexington, Kentucky.
The awards signify the agencies have successfully met a body of professional standards in one of four public safety credentialing programs offered by CALEA: Law Enforcement Accreditation, Public Safety Communications Accreditation, Public Safety Training Academy Accreditation, and CALEA Recognition, for smaller law enforcement agencies. Today, there are CALEA agencies in Barbados, Mexico and the Caribbean, as well as those from the United States and Canada.
CALEA was established as an independent accrediting authority in 1979 by the four major law enforcement executive associations: International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP); National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE); National Sheriffs' Association (NSA); and Police Executive Research Forum (PERF).
CALEA’s purpose and mission is two-fold. First, to establish a body of standards designed to increase agency effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of public safety services and, second, to establish and administer a series of accreditation programs through which public safety agencies can demonstrate voluntarily that they meet an established set of professionally recognized standards leading to excellence in management and service delivery.
The CALEA Accreditation/Recognition process, itself, is a proven modern management model. Once implemented, it presents an agency’s Chief Executive Officer, on a continuing basis, with a blueprint that promotes the efficient use of resources and improves service delivery - regardless of the size, geographic location, or functional responsibilities of the agency. The standards upon which CALEA’s programs are based reflect the current thinking and experience of public safety practitioners and researchers and are considered benchmarks for today's public safety agencies.
Agencies receive their awards after participating in a process that involves a commitment of personnel and other resources. The process can take up to 36 months for law enforcement agencies seeking CALEA Accreditation. Communications and training agencies, as well as agencies seeking CALEA Recognition, take up to 24 months. In some instances, however, the process is completed in a shorter time frame. During that period, all aspects of the agency’s policies, procedures, management, operations and support services are examined in detail. In addition, each agency conducts a detailed self-assessment and participates in an on-site review by a team of outside CALEA assessors, composed of experienced public safety practitioners.
Below are the agencies that received awards at the 2006 Lexington Conference. The number in parenthesis after each agency indicates the number of awards the agency has received to date.
The agencies receiving Law Enforcement Accreditation Awards are:
The agencies receiving Public Safety Communications Accreditation Awards are:
The agencies receiving Public Safety Training Academy Accreditation Awards are:
The agencies receiving CALEA Recognition Awards are:
The agencies receiving CALEA Recognition Through Alliance Awards are:
In addition, the prestigious Egon Bitter Award for Chief Executive Officers who have headed CALEA Accredited agencies for 15 or more years was presented to Chief Timothy Wallace, Hurst (TX) Police Department and Chief Ron Ferrell, Mason (OH) Police Department.
Finally the CALEA TRI-ARC Award for agencies that have their law enforcement, communications and training centers CALEA Accredited was presented to the Kansas City (KA) Police Department.
Source: Sylvester Daughtry Jr., Executive Director, 10302 Eaton Place, Suite 100 Fairfax, VA 22030 (800) 368-3757 X31 Website: www.calea.org
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