Our Mission
The Police Mission will serve as a model to provide an understanding of the goals of the Berks-Lehigh Regional Police Department. The Police Mission presents difficulty in developing a proper perspective. You may point to a statute and say “that represents a mission,” enforce it, but we require more than the interpretation of a stature. Goals must be comparable with public goals. Characteristics of one community do not necessarily reflect those of another. Therefore, the police mission, in its simplest form, is the maintenance of social order within carefully prescribed ethical and constitutional restrictions.
The mission involves prevention of criminality, the repression of crime, the apprehension of offenders; the recovery of property; the regulation of non-criminal conduct, and the performance of miscellaneous services.
The Berks-Lehigh Regional Police Department exists to serve a variety of municipalities by protecting citizens’ life and property; by preventing crime, by enforcing laws; and by maintaining order for all citizens.
Central to our mission are the values that guide our work and decisions, and help us contribute to the quality of life in Berks and Lehigh Counties. Our values are the characteristics of qualities of work. THEY ARE NON-NEGOTIABLE! Although we may need to balance them, we never ignore them for the sake of expediency or personal preference.
We hold our values constantly before us to teach and remind the community and us we serve, of our ideals. They are the foundation upon which our guidelines, policies, goals, and operations are founded.
In fulfilling our mission, we need the support of our citizens, elected officials, and municipal staffs in order to provide the quality of services our values commit us to.
We, the men and women of the Berks-Lehigh Regional Police Department, value:
THUS LIVING UP TO THE MOTTO “TO PROTECT & SERVE”