Ruston Police Department

04/09/2026

12/17/2025

Ruston PD awards presented at the city counsel meeting by Chief Bautista.

12/17/2025

Officer Sovann, Officer Hansen, Officer Barlow, and Sergeant Lake have all been presented departmental awards by Chief Bautista. Congratulations!

11/13/2025

While our page was on hiatus, the Ruston Police Department received the Lexipol Bronze Award, as part of a program that has recognized over 1,300 agencies for excellence in policy and training management. The Lexipol Connect program annually recognizes public safety agencies that excel at implementing, disseminating, acknowledging, and training on policies. Prior to using the Lexipol Policy Manual program, Ruston Police's policy manual had not been updated for several years and is the first time the police department has received a national award. The Ruston Police Department has been actively working toward national accreditation with the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) since 2023.

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween! Please celebrate safely and responsibly!

10/03/2025

Ruston Police Department, WASHINGTON STATE - CALEA Accreditation
The Ruston Police Department, WA is participating in the CALEA Law Enforcement Accreditation process. The CALEA accreditation program offers us the opportunity to enhance our reputation and the public’s confidence in our personnel and operations. Participation in this program ensures that our policies and procedures are defensible and in compliance with internationally-accepted standards for law enforcement excellence. We seek to be a leader in law enforcement service delivery that ensures a safe, secure, and desirable community. We value ethical and honest behavior, accountability, and fair and equal treatment and are always striving to improve.

CALEA Accreditation is a voluntary process and participating public safety agencies, by involvement, have demonstrated a commitment to professionalism. The program is intended to enhance organization service capacities and effectiveness, serve as a tool for policy decisions and management, promote transparency and community trust, and establish a platform for continuous review. CALEA Accreditation is the Gold Standard for Public Safety Agencies and represents a commitment to excellence.

As part of this process, we provide an opportunity for public feedback via the CALEA Portal, which can be accessed through the button below:

CALEA Portal
https://cimrs2.calea.org/1344

The purpose of this public portal is to receive comments regarding our compliance with CALEA standards, engagement in the service community, delivery of public safety services, and overall candidacy for accreditations status. These comments can be in the form of commendation or concerns. The overall intent of the accreditation process is to provide our agency with information to support continuous improvement, as well as foster our pursuit of professional excellence.It is important to know that CALEA is not an investigatory body and subsequently the public portal should not be used to submit information for such purposes. Additionally, there will be no response other than acknowledgement to submissions; however, the information will be considered in context to its relevancy to compliance with standards and the tenets of CALEA Accreditation.

10/03/2025

We are finally back on Facebook. Thank you for your patience!

06/29/2016

We hope everybody has a safe and wonderful 4th of July. We want to take this opportunity to remind everybody that fireworks are illegal within the city limits of Ruston.

06/21/2016

On July 4th N 51 St between N Winnifred ST and N Baltimore St will be closed to vehicular traffic all day. There will be a short detour around to N Commercial St for vehicles. The roadway will still be open to pedestrian traffic during this time. Thank you for your patience.