Welcome to the official page for the Arp Police Department. The Arp Police Department page is a place where we want to foster positive communication between the police department and residents. We are excited about sharing information concerning what we are doing within the department, as well as what is happening around our great city. We are also excited to hear from members of our community. While this page will not be monitored 24/7, comments are read on a regular basis and will remain posted if in keeping with the Arp Police Department’s user guidelines. Our user guidelines are as follows:
1. Responses to comments shall be limited to providing factual information.
2. New postings must be relevant, current, and appropriate. Multiple successive, and/or off-topic posts by a single user or repetitive posts copied and pasted by multiple users, spam, videos of any nature, and discussion of criminal cases by involved parties will not be permitted.
3. Keep comments short and to the point.
4. Do not include personally identifiable information within your comment. This would include but is not limited to addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, or other sensitive information.
5. Do not represent yourself as another person.
6. Responses must be civil. They must not contain malicious, offensive, threatening, profane, or insulting language or imagery. No references to the personality of other participants or individuals. Attacks on individual character will not be tolerated. Content that promotes, fosters, or perpetuates discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, age, religion, gender, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, national origin, physical/mental disability, or sexual orientation will not be tolerated.
7. Do not post anything containing sexual content or links to sexual content.
8. Threats of violence will not be tolerated.
9. Conduct or encouragement of illegal activity is not allowed.
10. Information that may tend to compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems is not permitted.
11. Content that violates proprietary information of any other party is not permitted.
12. Promotion or endorsement of commercial services, products, or entities is not permitted. Above all else, respect each other. Failure to comply with these rules shall result in the removal of the comment and may result in the person being barred from accessing the department’s social media sites for a period of time. The Arp Police Department reserves the right to delete comments that defame any person or organization which includes the Arp Police Department. Any posts that support or oppose political candidates, political organizations, ballot propositions, promote illegal activity, commercial services or products, charitable organization, infringe on copyrights or trademarks or are not topically related to the particular posting will be removed. By “LIKING” or “INTERACTING” with our page, you agree to the terms listed above.
