2024 Police Annual Report

law enforcement.” Additionally, the assessors “found the staff to be dedicated, well-trained, and highly educated. The facilities, were clean, modern, well-equipped and at the leading edge of technology.” On January 15, 2015, the Illinois Law Enforcement Accreditation Council unanimously awarded Tier II Accreditation to the Orland Park Police Department. In 2022, we achieved our second Tier II Re Accreditation. Assessors again expressed their accolades for this organization. Our own Accreditation Manager was recruited by ILEAP to become one of their assessors, to travel the state and assist in accrediting other law enforcement agencies. The federal grant-funded mental health Mobile Crisis Response Unit (MCRU) continues to be extremely successful. The MCRU consists of mental health professionals from Trinity Services who co-respond, in person or virtually, with Orland Park Police Department Crisis Intervention Team officers to mental health calls throughout the Village. Moving forward, the Orland Park Police Department will continue their relationship with

Trinity Services, due to a generous endowment through Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital.

2023 continued to be a year of growth for the department, with new additions to our staff, new technology like FUSUS and new programs like the Occupant with Autism decal program. In 2024, all officers in the department were provided with new ballistic helmets and ballistic rifle plates. The department also began construction on the new training facility, which is scheduled to be finished in the early summer of 2025. As evidenced by the programs, initiatives, activities and individual efforts described throughout the remainder of this report, the men and women of the Orland Park Police Department are committed to providing the most effective and efficient services to the community that it proudly serves.

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