The purpose or mission of the Warminster Police department is to provide our community

and its visitors, with the highest quality of law enforcement services. Our vision is to

adhere to the highest law enforcement principals and ethics, for the betterment of the

community we serve and ourselves. We focus our mission and vision through our values.

We strive to be;

• Accountability
  • We are responsible for our actions, and we are answerable to each other and the community.
• Cooperation
  • We are part of a team and must work hard to promote teamwork within the department and community.
• Selfless Service
  • We put the welfare of community and department before the individual.

With our mission, vision and values stated, we look to eradicate any bias that may occur and assure transparency, so our community can be comforted with the authority they entrust us with.

To further this trust we have taken steps to make our agency accredited by the states chiefs association (https://pcpa.memberclicks.net/accreditation).  Pennsylvania Chief of Police Accreditation requires departments to develop policies to prevent and educate officers, in order to ensure officers do not engage in activities that are discriminatory or indicative of the practice of bias based policing. Our accreditation process is reviewed constantly, and we are currently going through our 5^th re-accreditation by the PA Chiefs Association, to ensure we are compliant with current best practices. The Warminster police are one of only 120 police agencies in Pennsylvania, that undergo this review.

At the suggestion of a community member, we agree, that in order help with transparency our accredited policies be presented to our community, to educate our community on the procedures taken to discourage bias policing and what occurs once a complaint is received. Attached are Bias Based Policing and Internal Affairs policies. We look to the future so we can work with the community, so we can promote confidence and tranquility.

Respectfully,

Chief Jim Donnelly, Police Officers, and Staff of the Warminster Police department