ORLEANS – The Orleans Police Department is proud to announce that it has been formally recognized for the Department’s exceptional community policing work.
The New England Association of Chiefs of Police has awarded the Orleans Police Department first place (pop. under 15,000) in the “All New England Community Policing Award” program.
The department’s policing philosophy places a strong emphasis on community policing and recognizes that strong community / police relations are essential in all successful police organizations.
The department has embraced both traditional and nontraditional policing methods that have proven to be exceptional approaches for cultivating healthy relationships between the police and the community we are sworn to serve.
A statement said their community policing approach is that we have developed organizational strategies with many community partners to promote problem solving and to address our various community issues.
