Your Turn: Tell Beachwood Police How They're Doing

The wants you to tell them how they’re doing.

The department released a survey on the city website this week – the results of which will help police prepare for an accreditation process that begins this fall.

The survey asks respondents about their experience with the Beachwood Police Department and their opinion of its services.

Chief Mark Sechrist said the department will use the survey results – which will be gathered until April 30 – to evaluate its own performance.

The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies assesses police department polices and practices every three years. Beachwood was last accredited in 2010.

The survey asks 13 questions about respondents’ contact with the department, as well as about whether they feel safe and satisfied with the police services.

The department first conducted the survey by phone with people who had interacted with the department, with about 50 responses, and three years ago sent the flyers out in Beachwood's monthly magazine The Beachwood Buzz and got around 200 responses.

Sechrist said he hopes that the online survey will ellicit more responses this year.

Click here to read the survey, and the full 2010 accreditation report is available in the PDF to the right.