Email: pdadmin@palestine-tx.org

Program Description

The Police Department is organized into three inter-related Bureaus responsible for preserving human life, maintaining public order, protecting the rights of persons and property, and enforcing all applicable laws and ordinances within the City of Palestine. POLICE ADMINISTRATION provides overall leadership and direction and is responsible for the promulgation of policies and procedures that govern the operations and personnel activities of the entire department. Administration has defined a philosophical course of action toward professional community-oriented policing services.

Goals

• The Police Department Administration will foster an environment of accountability, provide overall leadership through involvement with all Department members and improve the technical capabilities of the Department through appropriate equipment acquisitions.
• Use the crime analysis capabilities of the "CRIMES" network to identify repeat calls for service and work with patrol, CID and other service providers to solve these problems. Use employee evaluations and supervisor recommendations along with promising innovative approaches to policing, to determine the training needs of all Department personnel.

Objectives

• Strive to provide improved, continuing communication between the various inter-related units within the Department, which will benefit not only the department as a whole, but the citizenry that we serve as well.
• Continual review of department needs regarding purchasing of specifically identified equipment and new technology, which will improve our ability to serve the community.
• Ensure that officers and dispatchers are provided appropriate training opportunities to remain in compliance with TCLEOSE minimum requirements. Continue updates of our employee records to remain in full compliance with TCLEOSE rules. This will include written notifications to those officers who are approaching non-compliance with TCLEOSE training requirements.
• Continue training and mentoring our personnel to enhance their problem solving abilities as well as training to reinforce our commitment to high standards and ethics in our continuing search for excellence in policing. Continue to recognize outstanding achievements by Department members.
• Continue recruitment efforts at colleges and universities.
• Strive to foster good community relations, by providing timely and appropriate information benefiting the public welfare, and by reaching out to numerous organizations throughout the community with programs that will benefit the relationship between the public and the police that serve the community.