2007 Annual Report

2007 Internal Affairs Analysis Report

The Huntersville Police Department is committed to delivering to our customers, the citizens of Huntersville, the most effective, efficient, sensitive, and professional police service possible. Our Department will take an innovative approach in partnering with the Community. We will strive towards building respect for all individuals within the Community. As a TEAM, we will hold each other accountable to higher standards because Together Everyone Accomplishes More.

The Huntersville Police Department is a full service law enforcement agency providing professional police services twenty-four (24) hours a day. The department is authorized 58 sworn police officer positions, two (2) animal services officers and a civilian support staff of 5 full-time members. The North Mecklenburg Communications Center located in Cornelius provides the Town’s call taking and dispatch service for police services.

The officers and employees of the Police Department employ our own customized version of Community Policing, which we call Huntersville Oriented Policing. The principles of Huntersville Oriented Policing are to form partnerships with our customers and to solve problem’s from our customer’s point of view. The goals are to reduce police calls for service, which includes victimization, the department’s workload, and to reduce the fear of crime. All HPD officers are expected to form partnerships and to solve problems through a structured problem-solving method known as S.A.R.A. (Scanning, Analysis, Response and Assessment). Consistent with these goals and principles, supervisors, officers and detectives are permanently assigned to a specific T.E.A.M. We believe that this T.E.A.M. approach assists the officers and employees of the Department in accomplishing their mission, improving the quality of life and making Huntersville a safe place to live and work.