Our Mission
To work in partnership with our citizens to ensure all people will enjoy a high quality of life without fear of crime. To work together to solve problems and provide the most responsive and highest quality police service. To proactively prevent crime, maintain order, and apprehend offenders in a manner consistent with the law.

Our Values
The Department subscribes to a set of governing values that state its beliefs as a police organization.

• The most important asset of a Police Organization is its personnel
• Excellence for the members of the Brookline Police Department is based upon fairness, integrity, hard work, and professionalism in the performance of their duties
• Commitment to providing the highest quality of professional law enforcement with the goal of enhancing the quality of life within the community
• Build partnerships with citizens in order to ensure personal safety, protect individual rights, protect property, and promote individual responsibility and community commitment
• Secure and maintain public respect in order to fulfill the Department's duties by acknowledging that the quality of life in the community is affected by not only the absence of fear of crime, but also by the absence of crime itself