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ISSUE
POLICY & PROCEDURE NO. DATE: 04/02/2004
4.08
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 04/02/2004
MASSACHUSETTS POLICE
ACCREDITATION STANDARDS
REVISION
REFERENCED: 41.2.1; 41.2.4
DATE: 10/31/2017
II. POLICY
It is the policy of this department that:
1. The department will evaluate the urgency of the police response to a
given situation and assign the appropriate number of officers; and,
2. In situations when the department is unable to respond to calls with
sufficient on-duty personnel, it may have to rely on off-duty officers,
non-regular personnel and officers from neighboring departments via
mutual aid agreements.