A law enforcement organization functioning in a free society is one which:

1. Considers that the Police work for the people: not the state

2. Police must obey rules and polices of the department. Police must maintain perform their duties equally to all persons without regard to race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sex, age, social status or other non-behavioral human traits:

 Honor human rights and human dignity of its members and the general population;
 Support the free exercise of available legal rights of all persons; and
 Encourage the fair and impartial enforcement of those laws within its jurisdiction;

3. All police duties must be in strict conformance with legal requirements contained in the nations constitution, police act, criminal code and other applicable laws;

4. Police are to serve the public rather than public repression of their culture or freedom.

5. Police must think to prevent crime before it happens in order to keep the public trust, public order, domestic tranquility and an acceptable quality of life for all persons within the country.

6. When possible the police must be a team with the community to identify and solve community problems which provide opportunities for criminal conduct.

7. Actively and effectively investigates reports of criminal conduct with the objective of identifying and apprehending the criminals so that guilt or innocence may be properly determined in court.

8. Police must work with the court officers, judges and prosecutors harmoniously to ensure that persons introduced to that system are processed lawfully, effectively and fairly.

9. Approves and encourages the use of non-deadly physical force by its members only under carefully defined circumstances to further a legitimate and lawful, societal objective, and the use of deadly force by its members only to save the life of any person, including a member of the police, from a perceived threat of imminent death or serious injury, or under other circumstances written in a local, public law;

10. Develops, maintains and operates under a code of conduct, rules, policies and procedures which provide reasonable guidance to police personnel in their behavior and the discharge of their assigned functions while holding them accountable for the manner in which they perform their duties.

11. All members of the police force who obey these rules and perform within the policies of the department shall be rewarded by promotion and department wide honors, which may be reported to the public.

12. Readily accepts and thoroughly investigates complaints of misconduct against police personnel.

13. Appropriately disciplines police personnel who are fairly determined to have violated the established police code of conduct, rules, policies and/or procedures. Appropriate punishment may include all or one of the following: documentation of actions, time off without pay, demotion, transfer, termination or criminal prosecution.