General Info

The Pittsfield Police Department addresses crime and safety-related needs and issues. Its role involves being proactive in fulfilling its responsibilities, not continuing the traditional reactive role. The department constantly emphasizes and reinforces community-policing vision, values and mission within the agency and throughout the Pittsfield community, Mass. The department has created citywide and neighborhood projects for dealing with neighborhood disorder, vacant and abandoned housing, at-risk children, family outreach with the schools and focusing on the ever-changing characteristics of the city. Officers in the field help organize and maintain neighborhood groups, communicate with other city agencies and service providers in order to get service to residents and others. Pittsfield Police Department is headquartered in Pittsfield, Mass.