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Assessment For Re-Accreditation

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Chief Daniel C. O’Leary is pleased to announce that a team of assessors from the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission is scheduled to arrive on Monday July 24th to begin examining various aspects of the Brookline 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 maintain 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 257 mandatory standards as well as 125 optional standards. In order to achieve accreditation status, the Department must meet all applicable mandatory standards as well as 65% of the optional standards. More information can be found on MPAC’s website: here.

Achieving and maintaining MPAC Accredited status is a highly prized recognition of law enforcement professional excellence. Anyone interested in learning more about this program is invited to call Chief O’Leary or the Department’s Accreditation Manager, Sgt. Paster at 617-264-6437.