Lakeland Police Reaccredited by CALEA

The Lakeland Police Department is proud to report our agency was recently reaccredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA). This is the fourth time Lakeland PD has been reaccredited following our initial award in 1994. Read the formal media release from CALEA here.

Law enforcement accreditation is a voluntary process agencies use to demonstrate their compliance with a set of over 400 standards recognized as best practices in management and service delivery. Being awarded the status of reaccreditation requires an ongoing compliance with these standards for the past three years.

We previously posted a series of updates from our accreditation onsite back in December. Once the assessors completed their visit to our agency, they submitted a written report documenting their findings to the Commission which met last month to review the report and question Chief Boatner about the organization. Following that hearing on March 15th, the full Commission voted to award reaccreditation to Lakeland PD.

We are proud to remain in the ranks of police agencies who are fully accredited by CALEA. This award demonstrates our commitment to highest standards of law enforcement service - recognition that we are proud to share with the community.

- Asst Chief Bill LePere