Lancaster Town Police Department

About

The Lancaster Police Department is a 24 hour agency dedicated to serving the residents of Lancaster Massachusetts.

Mission

The mission of the Lancaster Police Department is to promote, preserve and deliver quality services and to ensure the safety of all members of our community.


This mission represents the commitment of this administration to the concept of quality performance management. Members are expected to work consistently in a quality manner in the daily performance of those duties, job responsibilities, and work tasks associated with this mission. Quality manner means that performance outcomes comply with the performance standards established for the Lancaster Police Department and for each associated member. Examples of performance standards include the oath of office, code of ethics, rules, policies, prodedures, directives, work productivity and behavior


The Lancaster Police Department has authorized work strength of 11 full time Police Officers and 7 part-time Police Officer and 1 full time Administrative Assistant. Lancaster Police have 4 full time civilian dispatcher and 11 part-time dispatchers. We provide a 24 hr, 7 day a week service to the Town.