Guest columnist David Murphy: Council is undoing 20 years of PD progress

Guest columnist David Murphy: Council is undoing 20 years of PD progress
Northampton Police Station
Published: 5/30/2021 2:00:14 PM
In 2002 the Northampton Police Department became accredited by the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission. At the time there were only about a half-dozen Police Departments in Massachusetts that were accredited, today only about 100 of the 351 municipalities in Massachusetts have accredited Police Departments.
The Northampton Police Department made the decision to pursue accreditation on their own, not at the request of the city’s political leadership. The department itself chose to raise its level of professional standards. They did this for two reasons — to better serve the citizens of Northampton and to assist in recruiting the best and brightest young people interested in a career in law enforcement to join the NPD.

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