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Chief Bill Raber
I have
been a member of the Peru Police Department for 20 years. I was appointed
Police Chief in January 2003. Prior to this appointment, I had been the
Assistant Chief of Police since 1997.
Our Peru Police Department has 29 members. There are two members assigned to the Miami County Drug Task Force, three assigned to the Detectives Division, a K-9 officer who is on call 24 hours a day and an eight-man Special Operations Team that consists of six Peru Police Officers and two Miami County Sheriff Deputies.
Police officers are required to attend the Law Enforcement Academy for fifteen weeks during their first year of service. At the Academy, an officer will be instructed in numerous courses such as Criminal Law, Emergency Vehicle Operation, Firearms and Defense Tactics. After completion at the Academy in Plainfield, Indiana, an officer will be on probation status for one year. During that year, the officer rides with a Field Training Officer for three months. Officers are required to receive a mandatory sixteen hours of additional training every year following graduation from the Academy.
Our motto, "Pride in Commitment-Excellence in Service", states the essential philosophical premise for the purpose of the Peru Police Department. The department, through it employees, is proudly committed to providing professional law enforcement services to our community and invites a standard of excellence by which to be measured in the fulfillment of its promise to perform its police functions in a fair, responsive and professional manner.
The mission of the Peru Police Department is to protect the rights of all persons within its jurisdiction to be free from criminal victimization, to be secure in their possessions and to live in peace. Consistent with the values of a free society, it is the primary objective of the Peru Police Department to approach, as closely as possible, the ideal of a community free from crime and disorder.