Our Vision

As we enter the 21st century the Winter Garden Police Department will be a culturally diverse, highly motivated, professional law enforcement organization, representative of, and respected by, the community that it serves.

Our Mission

To create safe communities by building partnerships that work to prevent crime and utilizing advanced techniques to target criminal activities .

Our Goals

- To build community partnerships that will allow the community/business groups to participate in decisions that effect their neighborhood/group
- To utilize advanced techniques that target criminal activities
- To improve the efficiency of the criminal investigations unit
- To maintain a professional police department

Our Objectives

- Assign an officer to the Community Redevelopment Area to combat the quality of life issues within it.
- Assign an officer to provide crime prevention and awareness presentations to various groups.
- Give at least thirty-six (36) crime prevention and awareness presentations.
- Attend Sixty (60) neighborhood/group meetings.
- Conduct fifty (50) crime prevention programs in local schools.
- Upgrade or replace the Records Management System to track criminal offenses.
- Identify crime trends/patterns by location and time, and develop strategies to combat them.
- Identify repeat offenders and develop strategies to target them.
- Utilize the Code Enforcement Unit to address code violations that contribute to criminal activities.
- Target narcotic/vice areas and suspects and provide on-going narcotic/vice related enforcement, performing at least one-hundred (100) undercover operations in the city.
- Conduct three (3) undercover operations focused on sale of alcohol / tobacco products to minors.
- Develop a case management system to track the cases assigned to a detective.
- Assign another detective to the unit to reduce the backlog of outstanding cases.
- Provide each detective with three (3) training classes directed at investigative procedures.
- Conduct in-depth debriefing sessions with all involved components after high profile investigations.
- Revise the Policy and Procedures Manual and use policies that comply with accredited standards.
- Send all officers to the Orange County Sheriff's Office block training.
- Provide each officer with two (2) additional career related training classes.

Our Values

COMPASSION Ensuring that others are treated with respect, dignity and sensitivity; managing our official duties in a judicious, responsible and caring manner.

INTEGRITY A commitment to moral principles and ethical behavior, requiring candor, honesty, and sincerity in all that we do while avoiding even the least showing of impropriety.

LEADERSHIP Providing for uniformity of direction and action toward the organizational mission; motivating others to action through setting an example in both work ethic and conduct.

LOYALTY A commitment to the organization, to our co-workers, to the City, and to the State, over and above the commitment to any particular individual or personal agenda.

PRIDE Recognizing and promoting one’s sense of personal value and worth, and fostering the enrichment of that value and worth, there by acknowledging that organizational pride emanates from the collective dignity and self-respect of others.

PROFESSIONALISM Promoting, by example, the highest standards of appearance, conduct and propriety in all that we say and do; recognizing that EACH of us MUST set the standard for others to follow.