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The City of Suffolk is comprised of 430 square miles with rural, suburban, and urban areas. The Suffolk Police Department is charged with providing policing services to the entire city. In order to maintain the high level of service, the department is allocated 186 sworn personnel, divided between uniform patrol, investigations, administration and the office of professional standards. For patrol purposes, the City is divided into 18 zones or areas of responsibility. Sector I contains 12 zones and Sector II contains 6. Each patrol officer is assigned to a specific zone, which may encompass several neighborhoods and/or business districts. The officers develop a sense of responsibility for their assigned areas and develop partnerships with the citizens who reside and/or work within it.
Each year the Suffolk Police Department compiles information and develops reports for the previous year. The annual report focuses and highlights various activities within the department, the community and our accomplishments during the year. The crime statistics report details actual reported incidents during the year.
Mission Statement
Law enforcement excellence and public service through partnership with our community.
Vision Statement
The Suffolk Police Department is a progressive organization committed to fostering healthy community relationships while combating crime through developing effective lines of communication, the application of advanced technology, and the provision of innovative training.
We will strive to retain and recruit diverse personnel that are well informed, service oriented, and embrace the ideals of integrity and honor.
Planning for the Future
Planning in the Suffolk Police Department is a vital part of what makes our organization successful. Knowing where we want to go - both short term and long term - helps the department focus precious resources in the right directions. Short term planning usually involves preparing for the next few years, while long term planning projects a course for the next five to ten years. Our planning is guided by our mission and vision statements and requires the department to look at its external environment as well as its internal strengths and weaknesses to determine its needs, goals and objectives. Community members and other outside stakeholders are consulted on areas of Department functioning that require improvement.
Once developed, our plans are monitored for successful completion, or redirection as necessary. Plans are monitored by ongoing analysis of internal and external inputs and outputs. This analysis helps us to determine whether our strategies and efforts are impacting our goals and objectives, or whether our methodologies need to be changed. In this way, we lay the groundwork for our future efforts. The Department currently engages in shorter term strategic planning as well as long term vision planning.
