Salisbury Police Department (Maryland)


The Salisbury Police Department is a nationally accredited full-service agency servicing a population of 23,743 persons within of the municipality of Salisbury, in the U.S. state of Maryland.
SPD became accredited on April 26, 1987, becoming the 45th agency accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies.
In 2011, the Salisbury Police Department partnered with the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore to create two funds. The first is a College Scholarship program to send a future Salisbury Police Officer to Wor-Wic Community College. The second is a fund to re-establish the Mounted Unit and to assist in the establishment of a K-9 Unit.

Organization

The Chief of Police is Barbara Duncan. She is the departments tenth chief and the first female.
The department is divided into three divisions: