The Homewood Police Department serves the Village of Homewood, Illinois, a suburb located 25 miles south of Chicago’s Loop. The Homewood Police Department is responsible for the enforcement of all state laws and most municipal laws (ordinances) in the Village. Services provided by the Department include routine preventive patrol, crime and accident investigations, animal control, traffic/parking e
nforcement and community policing functions. The Homewood Police Department follows all mandates as recognized by the Department of Justice and the Illinois Training and Standards Board. As an organization, the Homewood Police Department continuously trains and changes policies as incidents occur, and laws change. The Lexipol Policy System that is utilized automatically changes policies when laws and mandate are updated. This system affords the continual training that makes every Homewood Police Officer reach our state-mandated training and department goals. The mission of the Homewood Police Department is to work in partnership with the community to promote open communication, education, cooperation and fair and equal treatment, to improve the quality of life, promote unity, encourage respect and make Homewood a safe community. Social Media Comment Policy
Posts or comments on a Homewood Police Department managed social media website containing any of the following inappropriate forms of content are not to be permitted and are subject to removal by the Chief of Police or his/her designees:
a. Content that could compromise an ongoing investigation;
c. Personal identifying information of any person, except as allowed under the Freedom of Information Act;
d. Defamatory or personal attacks;
e. Threats to any person or organization;
f. Posts/comments in support of, or in opposition to, any political campaigns or ballot measures;
g. Solicitation of commerce, including but not limited to advertising of any business or product for sale;
h. Conduct in violation of federal, state, or local law;
i. Encouragement of illegal activity;
j. Information that may tend to compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems; or
k. Content that violates a legal ownership interest, such as a copyright or trademark, of any party. Repeated or egregious violations of this policy may result in being “banned”, or disabled from the ability to post further comments. The Homewood Police Department use of social media is provided as a public service to increase communication with the community. This page is not constantly monitored, and should never be used to report crimes or requests for police service. The Homewood Police Department disclaims liability for comments on its social media pages posted by any person or entity other than the Homewood Police Department official account, and inclusion of comments does not imply endorsement by the Homewood Police Department. Furthermore, the Homewood Police Department disclaims liability for ads, links, videos, promoted content or comments accessible from any external web page. The responsibility for external content or comments rests with the organizations or individuals providing them. Any inclusion of external content or comments does not imply endorsement by the Homewood Police Department. The Homewood Police Department cannot edit any posts made on its social media sites, however, the Homewood Police Department reserves the right to remove or hide comments that do not adhere to our social media post/comment policy.
