The Northville Township Police Department is entrusted to uphold individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America, the Constitution of the State of Michigan, laws created by our elected bodies and those established through the judicial system. These frameworks provide the foundation for professional policing in our community. 

As an agency committed to continuous improvement, we support our belief in Constitutional Policing through the implementation of processes guided by independent best practices. These are communicated through policies which we support through training to establish competency, and then supervise to ensure accountability of our practices. We recognize trust in processes is gained through transparency and independent verification. 

This belief has led our agency to voluntarily participate in the Michigan Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission (MLEAC) program requiring compliance with 108 standards. The agency was the first organization in Wayne County to be accredited in 2017 and completed the three-year re-accreditation cycle in 2020. In three years, the MLEAC accreditation program has been recognized for its value with more than 100 departments in the State of Michigan involved. To further support this process, the organization began the self-assessment process for International Accreditation in the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA) Advanced Law Enforcement program and CALEA Public Safety Communications program. The Advance Law Enforcement program has 459 standards to comply with and the Public Safety Communications program has 207 standards for dispatch centers. The Northville Township Police Department was the first department in the State of Michigan to receive MLEAC re-accreditation, CALEA Advanced Law Enforcement Accreditation and CALEA Public Safety Communications Accreditation. 

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