Mount Dora Police Department

City of Mount Dora Site

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Mount Dora is a beautiful, vibrant town with a diverse, cohesive population of over 9,000 permanent and several thousand "seasonal" residents located approx. 25 miles northwest of Orlando. Mount Dora is situated right on Lake Dora at one of the highest elevations in the State of Florida with rolling hills, well kept neighborhoods, and a beautiful downtown comprised of numerous shops and restaurants. The Mount Dora Police Department has a sworn staff of 32 police officers and 17 civilian employees consisting of police dispatchers, records and evidence clerks, staff assistants, animal control officers, and school crossing guards. We take great pride in being an agency that practices "Community Oriented Policing" and works hard to live up to our mission statement: "The Mount Dora Police Department is dedicated to ensuring that Mount Dora remains a safe city by aggressively fighting crime and working to maintain a livable community". I would invite you to visit our beautiful town, in person, at your earliest opportunity. I hope you find our website informative and interesting.

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DRUG HOTLINE

If you see any suspicious activity, or wish to report anything that you think might be drug related, please call the number listed below. You do not have to leave your name, just the information.
The more details you leave, the easier it will be for us to fully investigate your complaint. If you wish to be contacted or be advised of the results of our investigation, please leave your name and a phone number.

City of Mount Dora
Police Department
Drug Tip Hotline
(352) 385-4357
385-HELP

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to submit your tips online

Mount Dora Police Department Mission Statement

MISSION

The Mount Dora Police Department is dedicated to ensuring that Mount Dora remains a safe City by aggressively fighting crime and working to maintain a livable community.

GOALS

To provide professional, community oriented police service, to our community, utilizing innovative techniques and approaches to ensure success.
To focus all departmental resources on combating crime by aggressive identification, arrest, and prosecution of violators of the law.
To reduce traffic accidents, injuries and fatalities, by actively enforcing traffic laws.
To aggressively target drug dealers using uniform and undercover techniques and operations.
To utilize our resources effectively to ensure fiscal responsibility and accountability to the public we serve.

OBJECTIVES

To provide continual and effective formal and in-service training in areas that are specific in enabling our personnel to carry out our mission.
Ensure a rapid, effective police response to calls for service from our citizens and visitors to our City.
Ensure professional and cost effective police coverage, security, and traffic control to the various special events held within the City each year.
Provide professional direction, management, and supervision to police personnel to ensure a community oriented policing philosophy is understood and adhered to by all police department employees.
Continue to explore the availability of grants and other methods of alternative financing for our programs to reduce the cost to taxpayers.

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