About Us

The Washington Police Department current staffing is 1 full-time Chief, 5 part-time officers, a part-time secretary and a volunteer animal control officer.  The sworn officers provide an average of  80 hours of duty time a week, and triple that in call time.  During 2007 they handled nearly 1400 calls for service.  Click on the Police Statistics link to see a monthly breakdown of call volume, or year to year comparisons.  Read the Police Chief's report to the Town from the 2006 Annual Town Report.

The Department's cruiser is a 2006 Ford Expedition.   Interested in seeing some pictures of it and list of what it has?  Go to the Fleet Page.  We also patrol on a Polaris Indy 500 snowmobile, Honda 4-Trax ATV and 2008 CanAm Outlander AT Max ATV.  We use the Crimestar Record Management System for our database needs.

We serve the Town as traditional police officers, but we also have specialized training to further assist the Town in times of need.  Chief Marshall is a nationally registered EMT-I and NH certified Level II Firefighter. Ofc. Moser is a NH certified Level 1B Firefighter and serves as the Town's Fire Chief.  Four officers and ACO Turner are certified Ice Rescue Technicians.  ACO Turner is also an nationally registered EMT-I.

After the 2007 Town Meeting in March, the Department was authorized for a budget of  $108,781.  This includes payroll, supplies, equipment, maintenance and benefits for the year.  Click on the Budget link to see a breakdown of Department budget lines.

To locate us, go to the Town Common and we are the middle building, the old schoolhouse.  You can get directions to all town roads on the Town of Washington website.

The Department is very proud of it's "Student of the Month" award program with the Washington Elementary School .  To learn more about the program, and see pictures and newspaper articles about the student recipients, please go to our Student of the Month page.

The Department likes to stay in regular contact with it's citizens and other Washington service agencies.  An e-newsletter is published which anyone with e-mail can receive free of charge by merely sending a request for it by e-mail .  We also send out press releases to the Hillsboro Messenger , NH Contender, and Speak Out.  Click on our Press Release link to view these and other articles relating to the Department or it's members.  Our weekly activity report can be viewed on the Activity Log page.

We have many amateur photographers in town who like to take pictures of our officers and the things they do, (both spectacular and slightly less so).  Check our Pictures link for our local version of "Cops" in Washington.  

The page is still constantly under revision, so please visit regularly to see additions, changes, and current information.