Law Enforcement Organization Has Examined Sheriff’s Department

With the Sheriff’s Department attorney James Sotos due in Rockford Federal Court Wednesday to joust with Zane Seipler’s attorney Blake Horwitz, Sheriff Keith Nygren has issued a press release concerning his efforts to be found in compliance with the standards of the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc.

Among the charges made in Seipler’s wrongful termination suit are that the Department has engaged in racial profiling.

CALEA standards can only be obtained by paying the organization $45 or having made an appointment to see them while on display at the McHenry County Sheriff’s Department.

The press release follows:

CALEA Concludes On-Site Assessment of

the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office

Sheriff Keith Nygren announced today that Assessors from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA) concluded their on-site assessment of the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office.

During the assessment the Sheriff’s Office was evaluated for compliance with over 400 individual standards, representing best practices in law enforcement. The assessors will be filing a report with CALEA concerning the Sheriff’s Office’s ability to attain accreditation.

CALEA will be evaluating the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office accreditation application at their conference which is scheduled for March 23 -26, 2011 in Bethesda, MD.

The Sheriff’s Office has voluntarily engaged in this rigorous process to further improve the professional service it provides to the citizen’s of McHenry County.

Accreditation provides a guarantee to the public that the Sheriff’s Office is operating according to the highest standards set in law enforcement.


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Law Enforcement Organization Has Examined Sheriff’s Department — 2 Comments

  1. “Accreditation provides a guarantee…”? Who does Nygren think he is kidding?

    Before the Assessment Team ever arrived in McHenry County, I asked them to examine the manner in which the Woods’ shooting injury investigation was handled, especially in view of the fact that no report was EVER submitted by the injured deputy, by the ranking officer (sergeant) in the shoot room, or by the ranking command officer at the range that day.

    Will they investigate the hundreds (thousands) of tickets written to drivers who were recorded as being Caucasian, but whose surnames were clearly Latino or Hispanic? Does that meet CALEA standards?

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