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The Law Enforcement Accreditation Program was the first credentialing program established by Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA) after its founding. It was originally developed to address what was seen as a need to enhance law enforcement as a profession and to improve law enforcement. That mission continues today. It provides a process to systematically conduct an internal review and assessment of the agencies’ policies and procedures, and make adjustments wherever necessary to meet a body of internationally accepted standards.

Since the first CALEA Accreditation Award was granted in 1984, the program has become the primary method for an agency to voluntarily demonstrate their commitment to excellence in law enforcement. The standards, upon which the Law Enforcement Accreditation Program are based on, reflect the current thinking and experience of law enforcement practitioners and researchers. Major law enforcement associations, leading educational and training institutions, governmental agencies, as well as law enforcement executives internationally, acknowledge CALEA’s Standards for Law Enforcement Agencies© and its Accreditation Program as benchmarks for today’s law enforcement agencies.1

The Hurst Police Department gained its first accreditation in 1990 and re-accreditation in 1995, 2000, 2003 and 2006. The Department had its on-site assessment in April 2009 for its fifth reaccreditation. Based upon the positive results of the on-site, the Hurst Police Department was reaccredited in August 2009 in Hampton, Virginia.

1CALEA, “Law Enforcement Accreditation,” 9 September 2007