SAMPLER: Police department renews accreditation
Mary Wenzel
The Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission voted to award Accreditation status to the Marlborough Police Department for another three-year period ending in January 2024. The Department first earned Accreditation in 2018 after meeting 257 mandatory standards as well as 85 optional standards. The Accreditation process is time consuming and an intensive analysis of the department’s policies and procedures which seeks to ensure that the department meets the standards considered to be best practices for the profession.
The Accreditation process consists of two major components: 1) The establishment of a body of professional standards and policies and 2) a voluntary assessment process by which agencies can be publicly recognized for meeting those standards considered best practices for the profession. According to the Commission’s recent letter to Marlborough Police Chief David Giorgi, “Re-Accreditation demonstrate
Pinellas County woman distributes unused food from restaurants to people in need
Heather Brooke collects unused food from restaurants and grocery stores and then distributes it to people who need it.
and last updated 2020-12-29 23:32:59-05
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. â A Pinellas County woman distributes unused food from restaurants to people in need.
Heather Brooke and other volunteers delivered food to senior citizens on Tuesdays.
Heather Brooke
Brooke collects unused food from restaurants and grocery stores and then distributes it to people who need it. This food was perfectly good and it could go out to some of those families that had reduced income or families who have kids at home, said Brooke.