{"id":13,"date":"2017-02-02T09:26:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T14:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-02-07T13:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:14:30","slug":"accreditation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/about\/accreditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Accreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-top:0px;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element in-legacy-container\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" title=\"calea-header\" src=\"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/02\/calea-header.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-11739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/02\/calea-header-200x75.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/02\/calea-header-400x150.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/02\/calea-header-600x225.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/02\/calea-header.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Accreditation compels an agency to operate within specific guidelines. &nbsp;It requires accountability. &nbsp;It makes the agency adopt nationally recognized practices of quality in the law enforcement field. &nbsp;It improves agency morale and prevents an agency from slipping into mediocrity.<\/p>\n<p>The Columbus Police Department is&nbsp;proud to say that in November, 2014&nbsp;we received accreditation from Commission on the Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). &nbsp;Additionally, in March, 2015 we received accreditation from the Indiana Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission (ILEAC). &nbsp;With these accreditations it ensures that we increase agency effectiveness and efficiency in delivery of law enforcement services while increasing citizen and employee confidence in the department goals, objectives, policies and practices.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-align-block\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-span-yes fusion-button-default-type\" style=\"--button_margin-bottom:20px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/cimrs2.calea.org\/630\"><i class=\"fa-external-link-alt fas awb-button__icon awb-button__icon--default button-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">CPD Accreditation Public Comment Portal<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>The purpose of this public&nbsp;portal is to&nbsp;receive&nbsp;comments regarding the Columbus Police Departments compliance&nbsp;with CALEA standards,&nbsp;engagement in the service community,&nbsp;delivery of public safety services, and overall candidacy for accredited status. These comments can be&nbsp;in the form of commendations or concerns. The overall intent of the accreditation process is to provide the participating agency with information to support continuous improvement, as well as foster the pursuit of professional excellence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IMPORTANT: CALEA is not an investigatory body and&nbsp;subsequently&nbsp;the public portal should not be used to submit information for such purposes.<\/strong>&nbsp; Additionally, there will be no response other than acknowledgement to submissions; however, the information will be considered in context to its relevancy to compliance with standards and the tenets of CALEA\u00ae Accreditation.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 12:26:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}