The Professional Standards Unit is assigned the following functions: recruitment of new police officers, hiring of all new employees, orientation training for newly hired employees, supervision of the field training program, in-service training for employees, staff inspections of all components, maintaining national and state accreditation, providing firearms training for all sworn officers, conducting polygraph examinations for potential employees and for criminal cases, and maintaining liaison with the police academy.

The Unit is supervised by a sergeant and staffed with five police officers, one polygraph operator, one range master, two clerks, and one volunteer.