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Monroe Police Department
Mission Statement
The mission of the Monroe Police Department is to protect the freedom and safety
of the citizens of Monroe and its visitors by preventing crime and disorder and
ensuring the safe efficient flow of traffic.
The members of the Monroe Police Department shall carry out this mission in a
fair and unbiased manner that respects the rights of the individual and
encourages an open partnership with the law-abiding citizens of Monroe. Our
approach to policing adheres to Sir Robert Peel’s Nine Principles of Policing,
which are included herein.
- The basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder.
- The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon public
approval of police actions.
- Police must secure the willing co-operation of the public in voluntary
observance of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the
public.
- The degree of co-operation of the public that can be secured diminishes
proportionately to the necessity of the use of physical force.
- Police seek to preserve public favor, not by pandering to public opinion, but
by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete
independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustices of the
substance of individual laws; by ready offering of individual service and
friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social
standing; by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humor; and by ready
offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.
- Police use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and
warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent
necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order; and to use only the
minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion
for achieving a police objective.
- Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that
gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the
public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid
to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in
the interests of community welfare and existence.
- Police must recognize always the need for strict
adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to
usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the state, and of
authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.
- The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the
visible evidence of police action in dealing with it.
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