Mission Statement:

The Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP) is a public safety agency with statewide authority to enforce hunting, fishing, boating, and criminal law on all waterways and land, both public and private. NRP also:

• Is the lead agency for maritime homeland security, provides maritime and rural search and rescue;
• Educates the public in hunting, boating and water safety;
• Provides primary law enforcement services on the Department of Natural Resources managed lands, and
• Will provide mutual aid to allied public safety agencies for emergency, significant, or special events.
  

Our Creed:

As a Natural Resources Police officer, I will:

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• Assist the public in time of need, routine and emergency.
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• Educate the inadvertent violator by taking the appropriate level of enforcement action.
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• Relentlessly pursue deliberate offenders.
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• Respect and inform rather than lecture or reprimand.
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• Maintain the highest level of professional standards, integrity and conduct.