The Estevan Police Service's mission is to police with honor and integrity through transparency and positive community engagement while conducting ourselves with the highest ethical standards to maintain public confidence. 

"Last year we formed the working committee to establish a new mission, view and values statement for the Estevan Police Service to make it more current with today's times. What we did is we actually had members from every section of our organization partake in that committee and they developed the mission, vision and values. This is a shared mission, vision and values between the administration, the employees that work within our organization and the board of Estevan Police Commissioners," explained Police Chief Paul Ladoucer. 

"When we look at the vision which is "together a stronger a safer community," I think that speaks volumes and what that translates to is it's not just the police that are responsible for making the community safe and strong it happens with the police and community working in partnership. This is something that we're already doing but we want to obviously continue to push in that direction as we move forward as a police organization." 

Ladoucer mentions that they often recieve calls from the public infroming them of suspected imared drivers, showing that the community is working with the law inforcement. 

"We see people being more apt to contact us, the reaching out to us, the eyes and ears of the community and we want their help. For police, without the public assistance it's very difficult so when people call us to report an impaired driver, to say they believe someone's trafficking drugs, call us because they believe something is going on whether it be in a park or they think a house is being broken into. It's very difficult for a small number of people to have eyes everywhere in the city. We're not asking people to physically get involved but to pick up that phone and call us," he stated.  

"A lot of times people think "well I don't want to call the police because it's probably nothing or they probably got better things to do." We'd much rather get a call, go check things out and find out there's nothing to it than deal with the aftermath of it." 

"We encourage the public to keep that up, to not hesitate contacting the police sevice. The police service is a service that evry tax payer in this community pays for and I've said this time and time again, everybody in this community has the right to telephone the police at any time and certainly if they've got concerns or questions,' expressed Ladoucer. 

Community is very much in the forefront because when it goes on to the mission statement that talks about honour, integerty through transparency and positive community engagement, that goes to show the supportive community enagement. 

"When we talk about vision we talk about what we want to see, what our true vision is for this police service and we want to see our community working in partnership with the police service for a safer and stronger community." 

"When we move to mission it's "what is our mission to achieve that vision?" The public confidence is everything, I think it's very important to maintain that public confidence, maintain that public trust and have those high ethical standards for our members. This is something the administration has put out and said "we want you to do this." This is our own members saying this is how we see ourselves moving forward which is fantastic and is the only way it should be done," he shared. 

The Estevan Police Service values excellence, professionalism and service. 

"That speaks to what EPS stands for, I think it was very crafty and the Estevan Police Service or for short the EPS built off of that looking at excellence, professionalism and service and I think that speaks everything."