Chief Joseph Perkins of the Middleborough Police Department is pleased to announce that a team of assessors from the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission is scheduled to arrive on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, to begin examining various aspects of the Middleborough Police Department’s policies and procedures, operations and facilities.
Verification by the Assessment Team that the Department meets the Commission’s standards is part of a voluntary process to gain state Accreditation – a self-initiated evaluation process by which police departments strive to meet and maintain standards that have been established for the profession, by the profession.
The Massachusetts Police Accreditation Program consists of 274 mandatory standards as well as 120 optional standards. In order to achieve accreditation status, the Middleborough Police Department must meet all applicable mandatory standards as well as 55% of the optional standards.
This will be the first time the Middleborough Police Department has gone through the Re-Accreditation process as Accreditation was awarded in February 2022. Achieving Accreditation is a highly prized recognition of law enforcement professional excellence. Anyone interested in learning more about this program is invited to visit the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission’s website at www.masspoliceaccred.net.