Badge 6: An Accreditation Platform Built for Law Enforcement to Simplify Compliance

Integrity, consistency and accountability are central to modern policing. Accreditation strengthens that foundation by defining clear policies, procedures and performance standards. Turning policies into practice often stretches departments thin. Each assessment requires hundreds of documents, precise alignment with rules and detailed proof of compliance. For many agencies, especially smaller ones, the process can feel overwhelming.

Andretta Swift, founder and CEO of Badge 6, has experienced that challenge. A former police officer and accreditation manager, she knows how much time and effort compliance requires. When Connecticut became the first state to mandate accreditation for every department, she saw how difficult it was for agencies with limited staff and resources to keep up. Existing software did little to ease the burden, forcing departments into rigid systems that didn’t reflect the complexity of real policing.

That experience led Swift to create Badge 6, a specialized platform to streamline and modernize police accreditation. Its mission is to simplify how agencies manage compliance, documentation and policy alignment, which is traditionally resource-intensive and complex. By adapting to each department rather than forcing departments to adapt to software, Badge 6 reduces manual workload by as much as 90 percent.

“By transforming accreditation from a paper chase into a practical, time-saving process, Badge 6 gives officers back the time to focus on strengthening operations, improving performance and serving their communities confidently,” says Swift.

The system guides police departments step by step, checking each submission for accuracy and compliance. Every attachment, policy and proof has its place and communication between accreditation managers and assessors happens directly within the platform. This structure eliminates the back-and-forth of emailing documents and ensures nothing is misplaced. If a policy aligns with a standard, it can be uploaded into the module, where AI highlights the matching sections for review.

Our platform is like TurboTax, but for police accreditation. It doesn’t require an expert to build a fully compliant assessment. Badge 6 guides the process so departments can stay compliant quickly and confidently

From there, the process becomes faster with Quick Check. With a single click, any document—whether a brief directive or a 20-page police report—is scanned against the entire standards manual. Within seconds, the system generates a match list showing where the document qualifies as a directive or proof of compliance. This automation replaces hours of memorizing rules and combing through reports. One small department with only two part-time officers, previously unable to pursue accreditation, used Badge 6 to complete its first full assessment across all 359 required standards.

“Our platform is like TurboTax, but for police accreditation. It doesn’t require an expert to build a fully compliant assessment. Badge 6 guides the process so departments can stay compliant quickly and confidently.”

All of this is supported by AI, which remains under department control. Chiefs and leaders set permissions so only authorized staff can edit or validate documents. Sensitive records, such as internal investigation reports, never have to run through AI. In those cases, compliance can be highlighted manually, giving agencies full choice over when and how to use automation. By combining guided structure, powerful automation and strict safeguards, Badge 6 turns accreditation into a process that builds trust, saves time and strengthens policing.

Users echo that reliability. One police chief described years of frustration with accreditation software that promised to “make everything easier” but wasn’t built for law enforcement. Instead of saving time, he spent hours on phone calls with vendors trying to fix features or adjust workflows.

After switching to Badge 6, he said, “Everything is exactly how it needs to be. Zero phone calls were made to the vendor to work on this software.”

For Swift, this feedback affirms her mission. Her experience shaped Badge 6 into a platform that does the heavy lifting for officers, allowing them to reclaim valuable time. By making accreditation achievable and practical, Badge 6 provides agencies with the foundation to strengthen policing with integrity and consistency at its core.