CALEA Assessment Public Notice

PUBLIC NOTICE  

The Kannapolis Police Department is scheduled for an on-site assessment as part of a program to achieve national re-accreditation by verifying it meets professional standards.

Administered by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, (CALEA), the accreditation program requires agencies to comply with state-of-the-art standards in four basic areas: policy and procedures, administration, operations, and support services.

As a part of the on-site assessment, agency employees and members of the community are invited to offer comments at a public information session on Monday, December 5, 2005, at 7:00pm. The session will be conducted at the Kannapolis Fire Department Training room located at 300 Firehouse Drive in Kannapolis, North Carolina.

Agency employees and the public are also invited to offer comments by calling 704-920-4060 on Monday, December 5, 2005, between the hours of 8:30 am and 11:30 am. Comments will be taken by one of the assessment team members.

Telephone comments as well as appearances at the public information session are limited to 10 minutes and must address the agency’s ability to comply with the CALEA standards. A copy of the standards is available for review, at the Kannapolis Police Department. Local contact is Tonya Wilhelm at 704-920-4013.

Anyone wishing to submit written comments about the Kannapolis Police Departments ability to comply with the standards for accreditation may send them to the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. CALEA, 10306 Eaton Place, Suite 320, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-2201.