Code of Ethics
- Be loyal to the highest moral principles serving the public to the best of our ability.
- Uphold the Constitution, laws and regulations of the United States and of all governments therein.
- Give our full earnest effort and best thought to the performance of duties.
- Seek to find and employ more efficient and economical ways of accomplishing tasks.
- Never discriminate by dispensing special favors or privileges to anyone, and never accept favors or benefits under circumstances that might be construed by reasonable people as influencing the performance of duties.
- Make no private promises of any kind that are binding on the duties of our office because our private work cannot be considered as our public duty.
- Engage in no business that is inconsistent with the conscientious performance of duties.
- Never use any information gained confidentially in the performance of duties as means to make a private profit.
- Maintain high standards of personal integrity, honesty, and straightforwardness.
- Provide fair and equal lifesaving service to all.
- Expose corruption wherever we discover it.
- Uphold these principles, ever conscious that a public position is a public trust.