Lakeland Police Move Toward CALEA Reaccreditation
CALEA assessors concluded their onsite assessment of the Lakeland Police Department on Wednesday with a favorable recommendation to the entire Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies to reaccredit the Department. The Commission will review the assessors' findings and recommendation at their next meeting in March 2008 and render a decision at that time. We expect to be reaccredited at that time.
Assessors from left to right: Ms. Portia Swinson, Mr. Daniel Bruno, and Mr. Jack O'Donnell.
We appreciate the members of the public who attended the public hearing on Monday evening and spoke of the police department's work in the community. Your words of support were both heart-warming and reassuring. Thank you for taking time from your busy schedules to deliver your comments directly to the assessors.
- Asst Chief Bill LePere
Thank you for your comments and for taking the time to e-mail the Commission on our behalf. We appreciate your support.
Posted by: Asst Chief Bill LePere | December 16, 2007 at 02:53 PM
It was my pleasure to help you all. I wish I had not been so terrified at speaking in public. :) But I did email them the next day and did better that way. We are so proud of our boys and girls in blue. Anything we can do to help you is our pleasure and right.
Merry Christmas and may the New Year bring us all much deserved happiness.
Kathy and family
Posted by: Kathy | December 16, 2007 at 02:03 PM