School Safety

Mission Statement

Barnstable Police Department will ensure that staff and students have a safe and secure environment for teaching and learning, in order for students to achieve their maximum potential in education. Barnstable Police Department policing efforts will focus on improving campus safety and creating safe school passages for the school community members as a whole.

Vision

Barnstable Police Department is a premier leader in school-based policing. Barnstable Police Department is a progressive and forward-thinking organization that recognizes the important role in keeping the schools safe and while establishing positive relationships throughout the school community.

Core Purpose

Impacting lives today, for a better tomorrow.

Our Recipes of Values

• Respect, we treat others with courtesy, in the same way we expect to be treated
• Education, we gain personal and professional growth while seeking new knowledge
• Collaboration, we partner with our community to accomplish common goals
• Integrity, we do what is right, keeping with our values in strong moral principles
• Pioneering, we transform our programs and technology for a better tomorrow
• Excellence, we strive for excellence every day and encourage others to do the same
• Service, we work hard every day to fulfill our community’s needs 

Mail the Completed Form to:

Barnstable Police Department
1200 Phinneys Lane
Hyannis, MA 02601

Deliver the Completed Form to:

Barnstable Police Department Headquarters
1200 Phinneys Lane
Hyannis, MA 02601

The Barnstable Police Department’s Adopt-A-School Program maintains a police presence in the Town of Barnstable’s public elementary schools.  The Adopt-A-School Program consists of a team of officers assigned to perform specialized functions at a specific public elementary school.

The goals of the Adopt-A-School program are to:

• Work in partnership with the Barnstable Public Schools
• Streamline police services in the schools
• Enhance school safety
• Provide appropriate safety training for students
• Provide positive role models for students
• Establish close working relationships between officers & school staff
• Create positive relations between the Department, school staff, students and their families

Adopt-A-School Officers are responsible for:

• Creating a team like atmosphere between the police department and schools
• Acting as Department liaison to their school, its students, parents and staff
• Developing a good working relationship with school administrators and staff
• Providing regular safety checks at their school while on duty
• Addressing crime and disorder problems that adversely affect the proper learning environment of their schools
• Assisting in crime prevention activities that may reduce crime in or around their school
• Participating in activities such as having lunch with students, assisting at recess periods, etc.
• Attending school social and sporting events, school council and PTO meetings, as necessary,
• Assisting in the investigation of crimes committed by any person(s) within their school or on school property.

The Barnstable Police Department recognizes that Adopt-A-School Officers are a unique resource regarding their assigned school, and its staff and students. Officers perform their duties within the school and in addition to their regular patrol activities. Officer participation in the Adopt-A-School Program is on voluntary basis.