Vision, Mission, & Core Values

The Haymarket Police Department is guided by the below ethical and principal-based Vision, Mission, and Core Values:

Vision

The Haymarket Police Department is a professional police organization of irrefutable noble character, respected and trusted by the entirety of the community and its citizens to guard their freedoms, safety, and security. We strive to accomplish this through the following department objectives....

Keep crime low through ensuring constant patrolling presence

Ensure we maintained a less than 5-minute response time to all calls for service

Ensure we maintained 24/7 coverage 

Ensure we maintained our relationships with the residents through community policing

Ensure we maintained our comradery with other local agencies through strong teamwork

Ensure we maintain the walk ability of the town through speed enforcement on Washington Street

Emphasize  enforcement of our crosswalk and bike lanes for both drivers and pedestrians safety

Ensured we maintained a heavy and constant presence of nighttime business check to prevent break-ins

Mission

The Haymarket Police Department, in dedicated service to the Town of Haymarket, guards and protects the life, property, and constitutional rights of all people in the community in order to
facilitate and foster a safe and secure community.

Core Values

• Integrity- We conduct ourselves with uncompromising honesty, honor, ethics, and nobility in all situations and relationships.
• Human Dignity - We acknowledge and recognize the value all people by carrying out our duties with dignity, respect, and deliberate regard to all.
• Justice - We serve our community in an unbiased and impartial manner, applying equal protection to all under the law, and fairly enforcing the rule of law we are sworn to uphold.
• Professionalism- We are accountable to ourselves and the public for the quality of our service. We strive for exceptionalism in standards of proficiency and conduct in all aspects of
• our duties. We seek to continually improve ourselves, our department, and our community relationships.
• Leadership - Steadfast, resolute leadership is a hallmark of our department. We entrust our members to lead ethically and responsibly within the organization and in the community we
• serve. We subscribe to servant - leadership - servant first to the needs of others.