The city of Clinton issued the following statement.
Following a two year evaluation process, the Clinton Police Department has been named an Accredited Agency by the Mississippi Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission. Clinton becomes the twenty-eighth (28) law enforcement agency in Mississippi to receive the prestigious designation.
With over 350 law enforcement agencies in the state of Mississippi, this accreditation is difficult to attain and represents the highest standards in Mississippi Law Enforcement.
“When I was hired and came here to the city, I had a goal in mind: that was accreditation,” stated Chief Ford Hayman. After recruiting Officer Derek Brown from the Jackson Police Department in February for his contribution to Jackson PD receiving their accreditation, Hayman gave Brown an (18) eighteen month timeline to receive accreditation for the Clinton Police Department. Brown surpassed that timeline with the Mississippi Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission providing a site visit on September 4th and 5th of this year. In early November, the department was notified that CPD received their accreditation.
To attain accreditation, CPD was required to comply with (126) one hundred twenty-six standards for state accreditation during a (2) two year self-assessment. Mississippi State Accreditation standards cover both law enforcement functions, communication functions, and detention functions of an agency.
“Police officers are held to a higher standard. So the question is ‘What is that standard?’ Accreditation is it. The Mississippi Law Enforcement Accreditation Program is a series of 140 professional standards based on current best practices from around our country,” stated Chief Luke Thompson of Byram Police Department and Head of the Mississippi Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission.
Accreditation benefits the residents of Clinton by ensuring that CPD meets the highest standards and shows the continued commitment to excellence by the officers and staff of CPD. In addition, the accreditation is useful to help lower the liability insurance premiums for the City of Clinton’s Police Department.
“These standards include things such as use of force, police pursuit policies, search and seizure. All of those items in police department that expose you, as well as the Police Department and individual police officers to the greatest amount of liability. Our (Accreditation Commission) purpose is to provide a standard for your law enforcement and police officers to operate by to limit your risk and exposure to that liability,” added Chief Thompson.
Under the leadership of Mayor Phil Fisher and direction of the Chief of Police, Ford Hayman, the Clinton Police Department serves and protects Clinton residents and students at Mississippi College. The agency is dedicated to having a police force that equally represents the demographics of the City and is using their recruitment program to increase their sworn ranks and eliminate any under-representation.
Accreditation is an acknowledgement that the Clinton Police Department has met the highest standards required of Public Safety agencies in Mississippi. Chief Hayman’s proactive approach to decreasing criminal behavior has resulted in decreased statistics of property crime, robbery, and aggravated assault from 2016 to 2019.
Accreditation is not the end of the efforts to serve the residents of Clinton. Accreditation is the beginning of the efforts to continually represent Clinton with professionalism and honor.
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Clinton Police Receives Accreditation
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Now, if only Ole Miss could get accredited. At least as a community college.
Holding police officers or military officers to the highest of standards is absolutely critical in a nation of laws.
No exceptions.
City of Clinton is the best city in the state of Mississippi!
This seems to me like a worthless accreditation (almost like a self-audit), how about earning a real and independent accreditation like CALEA?
And "...highest standards in Mississippi law enforcement..." what does that even look like?
Good work, Chief Hayman!
I was hoping to see the list of those cities that are accredited. Would be interesting to see.
They are not already???!!??? That’s law enforcement 101!!!! Someone has been asleep at the switch!!!
@2:13pm - Too bad it’s located in the worst county in the state. Y’all need to pick up and move everything over to Madison County between Gluckstadt and Canton. Y’all would make a great buffer city for little Jackson to the north of us. Y’all are already used to having a war zone on your eastern front. It would be an improvement, as Canton isn’t as bad as Jackson (yet). And you’d benefit from having functional county services and a circuit court district that would actually put away the criminals y’all arrest. Best hurry though, Canton is trying to annex everything in a 30 mile radius for dem tax revenues.
@ 2:15 CALEA is not what you think it is. Its the same as what Clinton just received but with many more hoops to jump thru
5:36 - You have no idea what you're commenting on. At best, this is a 2.5 year process for most departments. Minimum 2 years.
I’m telling you it’s a great honor. Ha BS. You pay about 10k to get them to sign off on you and they rewrite all your policies to make them more suspect friendly. Don’t be fooled it’s just some BS that sound good
Once again, there is no topic brought to this board for which there is a shortage of experts.
Congrats to Clinton.
The Mississippi accreditation is BS. CALEA is the one you want but most departments in the state cannot meet the CALEA standard.
CALEA is the "gold standard," but only according the CALEA. They are based in liberal blue-city Gainesville, Virginia.
The majority of Gainesville's voters voted for Clinton.
Their website is in English AND Spanish.
CALEA is the liberal's feel-good wet dream for LE certification.
Why would anyone want some left-wing OUT-OF-STATE organization to certify their LE agency?
In case you missed it the first time, their website is in English AND Spanish. That is liberal dog-whistle speak for libtard.
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