Note: We moved into our new Public Safety building. Our new address is 815 NW 20th Street Waukee, IA 50263.
About the Department
The Waukee Police Department is a professional law enforcement agency sworn to serve and protect the citizens of Waukee with honor, integrity and pride. The department currently has 37 full-time police officers and four civilians on staff. Browse the City Jobs page to see if we are hiring!
Our Mission: The mission of the Waukee Police Department is service through integrity, respect, and trust to enhance public safety and the quality of life for our community.
Our Vision: The vision of the Waukee Police Department is to be a collaborative partner building a safer community through integrity, trust, and respect.
Our Core Values:
Trust
Honor
Respect
Integrity
Value
Excellence
The Waukee Police Department is proud to be a CALEA nationally accredited agency since 2024. Learn more about this important process at on our CALEA information page.
The Waukee Police Department is one of less than 500 law enforcement organizations across the United States, and the 7th law enforcement organization in Iowa, to have become an ABLE agency.
ABLE, which stands for Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement, is a project developed by Georgetown Law Center for Innovations in Community Safety (CICS), in partnership with global law firm Sheppard Mullin, to prepare officers to successfully intervene to prevent harm and to create a law enforcement culture that supports peer intervention. The ABLE Project builds upon a training developed by Dr. Ervin Staub, the Founding Director of the UMass Amherst Psychology of Peace and Violence Program, to help police officers stop unnecessary harmful behavior by fellow officers. In 2014, Dr. Staub, other experts, and the New Orleans Police Department developed the successful Ethical Policing Is Courageous (EPIC) Peer Intervention Program in New Orleans. The ABLE Project builds upon EPIC and Dr. Staub’s prior work to develop and deliver practical, scenario-based training for police agencies in the strategies and tactics of police peer intervention. Importantly, alongside this training, the ABLE Project guides agencies and communities on the concrete measures that must be in place to create and sustain a culture of peer intervention. The ABLE Project also provides a wide array of resources to communities and law enforcement agencies across the country interested in developing peer intervention programs of their own.
To learn more, visit https://www.law.georgetown.edu/cics/able/.
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