Mesage from the President
Chief Richard McCabe
As President of the Delaware Association of Chiefs of Police, I am committed to fostering a unified and collaborative law enforcement community across our state. Our mission is to strengthen partnerships among all policing agencies to enhance public safety, share vital resources and best practices, and uphold the highest standards of professionalism.
We are dedicated to earning and maintaining the trust of the communities we serve through transparency, accountability, and positive engagement. By working together, we will ensure that every Delawarean experiences a sense of safety, fairness, and respect—today and for generations to come.
I hope you find our site valuable and useful for your needs.
Delaware Association of Chiefs of Police Reform Commitments
The Delaware Police Chief’s Council (DPCC) was established in 1971 and is comprised of every police chief in the state of Delaware, as well as the Superintendent of the Delaware State Police. The Council is the recognized State Association of Chiefs of Police (SACOP) representative for the state of Delaware to the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP).
As an organization, we strive to achieve excellence in providing public safety services to the citizens of Delaware.
We support collaborative police reform initiatives and look at them as an opportunity for improvement, not as an obstacle or inconvenience. Every chief in our state is committed to drafting model policies, accountability, transparency, community outreach, training, and partnership with the Police Reform Task Force, to build trust with the citizens we are sworn to serve.
The Council officially underwent a name change to Delaware Association of Chiefs of Police (DAPC) in January 2022.
Our Values
- Use of Force – No Later than September 1, 2020
- Vehicle Pursuit – No Later than September 1, 2020
- Discipline – No Later than September 1, 2020
- Note: The DAPC already has model policies for Electronic Recording, Custodial Interrogation, Rule 9 Warrants, Eye Witness Identification, Body Worn Cameras, Active Shooter, Service of PFA’s During a Traffic Stop, Safe and Legal Traffic Stops, Traffic Code of Ethics and Investigating Sexual Assaults (written by the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council)
- We support Delaware Police Accreditation Commission (DPAC) accreditation for all agencies (Requires Funding – Task Force agenda item)
- We support a statewide Body-Worn Camera program and repository (Requires Funding – Task Force agenda item)
- We support Early Warning Systems to tracks Use of Force, Citizen Complaints, Pursuits and Crashes (Requires Funding – Task Force agenda item
- We support agencies to participate in the Police Foundation Open Data to publish Use of Force, Community Outreach, Employee Demographics, Citizen Complaints and Internal Affairs Summaries
- We support publishing names of decertified officers
- We continue to support the National Use of Force Database
- We will publish list of all DAPC model policies on our website with redactions
- We support all police agencies to adopt community-oriented policing policies consistent with the report on 21st Century Policing
- We support Citizen Police Academies We support Ride Along Programs We support and encourage a Guardian Mindset over Warrior Mindset to community policing Commitment to Training in conjunction with Council On Police Training (COPT) Bias Base Profiling Cultural Competency Fair and Impartial Policing De-Escalation Crisis Intervention Mental
- Health Procedural Justice Note: Research Online Training is available now – DTI Firewall Issue) Commitment to Partnership with the Police Reform Task Force
- Bias Base Profiling
- Cultural Competency
- Fair and Impartial Policing De-Escalation
- Crisis Intervention Mental Health Procedural Justice
- Note: Research Online Training is available now – DTI Firewall Issue)
