ALPD Mission Statement
Our mission is to enhance the quality of life
in Albert Lea, by providing excellent public safety services
through leadership, integrity, and in collaborative
partnerships with our community.
City of Albert Lea Police Department
Guiding Philosophies
“We are the example that others follow."
Respect
Our agency success is based upon mutual
respect garnered and nourished in cooperation with those
that we serve. We believe in treating everyone with respect
and strive to make the citizens proud of their department.
Integrity
Our decisions are guided by a strong ethical
process based upon the law enforcement code of ethics, laws,
and our individual officers’ sense of doing the right thing. We act in
ways that bring honor to the profession and build trust,
confidence, and respect with the community and people we
serve.
Accountability
We are leaders and
innovators in modern policing. We are committed to helping
individual officers reach their full potential. We provide
quality training to our officers using the most advanced
skills and methods.
We pledge our
accountability to the public we serve, to the rule of the
law, and to the goal of fair, proactive, effective, and
constitutional policing. We are committed to creating a
police culture in which our officers hold themselves and
each other to the highest standards of conduct.
Service
The police
department is only one part of the community. We work in
partnership with community members, organizations and other
agencies to solve problems and create safe and healthy
neighborhoods. We provide service to our citizens in a
professional and efficient manner. We are easily recognized
and approachable for advice, counsel, or just to listen. We
value our contact with the public. We welcome and encourage
feedback to find ways to improve our service.
We take a proactive approach to modern
policing and all personnel are trained in problem solving
policing methods. Each call for service is analyzed for
potential challenges or opportunities to strengthen
community bonds. We strive to involve all stakeholders into
our decision making processes to help ensure a successful
course of action. We work as a team, respecting and supporting
each other's roles and responsibilities.
We want the citizens to know who we are.
Geographic Accountability ensures that every neighborhood,
business, industrial site, or public space is the personal
responsibility of a particular member of the department. We
familiarize ourselves with calls for service, crimes, and
quality of life issues in our assigned area of
responsibility. We serve as the point of contact for those
living or working in the area and spend a portion of our
duty time identifying and building partnerships and
initiating problem solving strategies designed to prevent
and reduce crime and increase public safety.
Geographic accountability is also reflected
in our command structure. Supervisors are responsible for
assigned areas and are expected to be able to regularly
report to senior command on calls for service, patterns of
criminal activity, quality of life issues, and the proactive
steps being taken in the assigned area to increase public
safety and community livability.
Police Chief Dwaine Winkels
404 South Broadway
(send mail to City Hall, 221 E. Clark St.)
Albert Lea, MN 56007
507-377-5209
dwaine.winkels@co.freeborn.mn.us
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