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The City of Menasha Police Department will enhance the quality of life in the
community through our service to the public, protection of persons and property,
and impartial enforcement of the law.
This mission will be accomplished through the following values:
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We will wisely deploy resources available to reduce the level of criminal
victimization. |
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We will optimize communication with citizens to cooperatively identify
needs and apprehend criminals. |
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We will provide professional concerned responses to various medical
and social emergency situations. |
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We believe that integrity is the basis for public trust. Honesty and
integrity are not to be the exception within the department, but a requirement
of all personnel. |
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We will serve as facilitators to seek solutions to community problems
by responsive utilization of resources available within and outside our
police department including cooperative ventures with other police agencies. |
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We will treat all persons with respect and courtesy.
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Sir Robert Peel
(1788-1850) is often referred to as the founder of modern policing. Principles
that he codified can still be used today. We can often use the experiences of
those that preceded us to learn and prepare for the future. The Menasha Police
Department strives to observe these principles along with our mission goals
and objectives.
Sir
Robert Peel's Nine Principles of Policing:
- The basic mission
for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder.
- The ability
of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon public approval of
police actions.
- Police must
secure the willing co-operation of the public in voluntary observance of the
law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public.
- The degree of
co-operation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately
to the necessity of the use of physical force.
- Police seek
and preserve public favor not by catering to public opinion but by constantly
demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.
- Police use physical
force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore
order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to
be insufficient.
- Police, at all
times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to
the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the
police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time
attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests
of community welfare and existence.
- Police should
always direct their action strictly towards their functions and never appear
to usurp the powers of the judiciary.
- The test of
police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence
of police action in dealing with it.
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