AUBURN – The public gets a chance to rate the city’s police in front of a trio of national judges at 7 p.m. Monday in Auburn Hall.

Assessors from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies are scheduled to arrive Saturday to begin their review of Auburn police practices and procedures. It’s part of the city’s effort to win accreditation from the group for professional and high-quality police service.

Officers from Golden, Colo., Gainesville, Fla., and Hattiesburg, Miss., will host the public comment session Monday night. People unable or unwilling to come to the public meeting may talk to the assessors on the telephone by calling 576-4548 between 2 and 4 p.m. Monday.

Auburn Police Chief Phil Crowell said the three will be coming and going throughout their stay.

“Each one evaluates a different set of standards,” he said. “One may need to talk to city human resources staff, while another may have to go out to the 911 call center to look at records there. They’ll be going in different directions all week.”

They are scheduled to finish their review and fly out of Maine on Wednesday night. Crowell said he should find out how his department fared in November.

They will judge Auburn’s officers on 355 standards covering every aspect of police work. Those standards were designed to help prevent and control crime, make departments more effective and efficient and help them cooperate with other agencies.

It also helps protect the police department from lawsuits and reduces the city’s liability insurance as well.

Crowell said he’s most confident in his department’s community outreach and youth programs.

“We’ve got really great programs, from our student resource officers in the schools to our youth court and our youth diversion programs,” he said. New programs, started to meet CALEA standards, include weekly inspections by senior staff.

“We always monitored officers’ appearance and equipment, but having regular inspections forces us to document those things,” he said. “And it requires us to follow up if there is a problem, and document the entire process.”

Auburn would become the second Maine community to have a CALEA-accredited police department.

Lewiston Police Department is the only nationally accredited police agency in the state. It first achieved that status in 1995. It was reaccredited in 2000, 2003 and 2007.