Police Accreditation is a process by which a police department formally evaluates its activities and seeks an independent judgment that it substantially achieves its own objectives and is generally equal in quality to comparable agencies.

The Andover Police Department is extremely honored to hold this status and finds it holds a number of benefits for the department:

• Accreditation ensures the operational rediness of the Andover Police Department
• Accreditation insures that the department's policies and procedures and rules and regulations are in line with modern professional standards.
• Accreditation promotes a strong emphasis on officer safety.
• Accreditation provides an ongoing, independent evaluation of the Andover Police Department.
• Accreditation improves the quality of individuals who apply for employment with our department.
• Accreditation provides each member of the deparment with a sense of pride, knowing that their agency has met such high, professional standards.

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