Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission

Essex Police Department Earns Accreditation from Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission

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Chief Paul Francis is proud to announce that the Essex Police Department earned accreditation from the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission. The years-long, self-initiated process includes rigorous independent review and evaluation by MPAC of the department’s compliance with 257 mandatory standards and 125 optional standards. To achieve accreditation status, the department must meet all applicable mandatory standards as well as 55 percent of the optional standards. An assessment team from MPAC visited the department in October of 2021, reviewing management, operations, technical support activities, policies, emergency response planning, training, communications, facilities, equipment, evidence handling, use of force, vehicular pursuit policies, prisoner

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Essex Police Department to Welcome Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission to Conduct On-Site Assessment

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Chief Paul Francis is pleased to announce that a team of assessors from the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission is scheduled to visit the Essex Police Department next month to begin examining various aspects of the agency’s policies and procedures, operations and facilities for re-accreditation. The assessors arrive on Oct. 12 and will conclude their work on Oct. 14. 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

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