Mount Pleasant, South Carolina Police Department

Infobox Police Department
name = Mount Pleasant Police Department

established =
sworn = 150
jurisdiction = Municipal
stations = 1
chief = Harry Sewell The Mount Pleasant Police Department is the municipal level police agency of the Town of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The department is comprised of approximately 150 sworn officers and 45 civilian employees [http://www.mppolice.com] .

Accreditation

The Department is a nationally accredited agency, sanctioned by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. In 2006, the department was a CALEA Flagship Award recipient [http://www.calea.org/Online/Awards/flagship.htm] .

Community Oriented Policing

The Department has adopted the Community Oriented Policing policy, which requires officers to communicate with citizens to identify problems and develop solutions in order to resolve the issue at hand.

Field Operation Divisions

Uniform Patrol

The Uniform Patrol division is the largest division and is divided into two precincts of three teams each that work in rotating shifts to provide twenty-four hour service to the community. The Town of Mount Pleasant is divided into 7 distinct patrol neighborhoods. Each patrol neighborhood is assigned to a specific officer on each team for a period of nine months. Officers are responsible for providing service to the community in their assigned neighborhoods during their shift.

Traffic Services

The Traffic Services division is a team of sworn officers who have undergone specialized training in traffic management. The main responsibility of the traffic division is to enforce traffic laws in an effort to prevent collisions and "promote public safety" throughout the town.

Community Service Officers

The CSO division is a team of non-sworn officers who handle service calls where a sworn officer is not needed. These civilian officers take reports and assist with traffic direction in situations where immediate law enforcement is not necessary.

Animal Control

The ACO division is a team of non-sworn officers who handle service calls involving animals. These civilian officers are responsible for the investigations involving possible animal neglect and cruelty.

Criminal Investigation Bureau

CIB is the support services division responsible for the additional investigation of ongoing cases. CIB is further divided into two sub-divisions; Detectives who investigate crimes against people, and detectives who investigate crimes against property.

Crime Prevention

Crime Prevention is the division responsible for the coordination of activities that educate the community on the prevention of crimes and how to help reduce the number of opportunities for a crime to occur.

Canine Unit

The Canine Unit (K9) is a sworn officer from the traffic services division who has undergone the additional training to become certified in handling the department's single canine tracker.

Marine Patrol

The Marine Patrol division is a team of officers from the uniform patrol division who have received the specialized training to patrol the waterways in the area. Officers in the Marine Patrol division work on rotating shifts and must be certified by The United States Coast Guard and The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.

pecial Weapons and Tactics Team

The SWAT division is a team of officers who handle high-risk or potentially high-risk situations. Enrollment to SWAT is strictly voluntary and each officer must complete the additional training before he/she is allowed to respond to a call-out. The SWAT team provides 24/7 "on-call" service and must be prepared to respond to any area in the town within thirty minutes after a call-out.

Community Action Team

The CAT division is a team of sworn officers who work directly with the Uniform Patrol Division and provide additional manpower to conduct bike/foot patrol, surveillance and covert operations as requested.

Fallen Officers

ee also

* List of law enforcement agencies in South Carolina

References

External links

* [http://www.mppolice.com/index.cfm?section=1 Mount Pleastant Police website]