The Official Facebook account for the City of Laurel, MD. Police Department.
Working in partnership with the community, the Laurel Police Department is committed to providing the highest quality of law enforcement service to the City of Laurel citizens by aggressive Crime Prevention and vigorously pursuing and arresting criminals. The Department promotes community safety by seeking solutions to any situation that creates fear or threatens the quality of life in the city of Laurel.
The purpose of these sites is to present matters of public interest to City of Laurel, including its many residents, businesses and visitors. We encourage you to submit your thoughts, questions and/or concerns as comments on our social media sites, but please note this is a moderated online discussion site and not a public forum.
The City of Laurel Police Department social media pages (including, but not limited to: Facebook, Blogs, Twitter) are intended to be used as a means for Department personnel to provide information to subscribers only. The Police Department’s social media sites are not intended as a means of conversation or communication between its subscribers. If you wish to contact the Police Department or to request information, please visit the City's official website: www.cityoflaurel.org/content/laurel-police or call our Non-Emergency Service Number at (301) 498-0092. If you have an emergency, please call 911.This "social media site" is maintained and moderated by City of Laurel Police Department personnel to ensure that posted comments are constructive and suitable for all readers and respectful of all subscribers.
Once posted, Laurel City Police Department reserves the right to delete user submissions that contain:
i. vulgar language;
ii. personal attacks of any kind;
iii. offensive comments that target or disparage any ethnic, racial or religious group.
Further, the City of Laurel also reserves the right to delete comments that:
i. are spam or include links to other sites;
ii. are clearly off topic;
iii. advocate illegal activity;
iv. promote particular services, products, events or political organizations unrelated to Laurel Police Department;
v. infringe on copyrights or trademarks;
vi. use personally identifiable medical information, as we recommend you not share any of your medical information on our social media pages.
In addition, to protect your privacy and the privacy of others, do not include your full name, phone number(s), e-mail addresses, social security number, case numbers or any other sensitive personally identifiable information in your comments or responses.
Please note that the comments expressed on this site do not reflect the opinions and position of the City of Laurel Police Department or its officers and employees.
The appearance of external links on this site does not constitute official endorsement on behalf of the City of Laurel, Maryland or the Laurel Police Department.
We do our best to respond in a timely manner to feedback provided through Facebook, however we cannot guarantee that we will respond to all comments in such a fashion, or at all. If you feel that it is important that your comments are addressed quickly, please contact the appropriate representative or department directly via the contact information found at www.cityoflaurel.org/contact.
While this is an open forum, it's also a family friendly one, so please keep your comments and wall posts clean. In addition to keeping it family friendly, we ask that you follow our posting guidelines here. Posts will be removed if they violate the guidelines listed below.
• No graphic, obscene, explicit or racial comments or submissions nor do we allow comments that are abusive, hateful or intended to defame anyone or any organization.
• No solicitations or advertisements. This includes promotion or endorsement of any financial, commercial or non-governmental agency. Similarly, we do not allow attempts to defame or defraud any financial, commercial or non-governmental agency.
• No copyrighted or trademarked images or graphics. Imagery posted on the Facebook wall should be owned by the user.
• No comments or photos that suggest or encourage illegal activity.
• No documents of any kind should be posted on this page.
• You participate at your own risk, taking personal responsibility for your comments, your username and any information provided.
