Our Promise to You

The purpose of the Police Service is to uphold the law fairly and firmly: to prevent crime: to pursue and bring to justice those who break the law: to keep the Queen's Peace: to protect, help and reassure the community: and to be seen to do all this with integrity, common sense and sound judgement.

We must be compassionate, courteous and patient, acting without fear or favour or prejudice to the rights of others. We need to be professional, calm and restrained in the face of violence and apply only that force which is necessary to accomplish our lawful duty.

We must strive to reduce the fears of the public and, so far as we can, to reflect their priorities in the action we take. We must respond to well-founded criticism with a willingness to change.

The ability of the service to adopt the above statement will depend on the willing co-operation and assistance of society in general. The maintenance of law and order is the responsibility of society itself not solely that of the police.