Eastbridge Police Department

**Eastbridge Police Department** is a fictional police headquarters featured on the ABC channel, *The Commish.* The department is located in a municipal building in Eastbridge, New York, which was built in 1937.

Officially the **EPD**, is a municipal law enforcement agency within the New York State, United States. The Headquarters is also near the Eastbridge City Hall, Chinatown, donut shops, and several restaurants.

Commissioner Anthony Joseph Scali is the commissioner of the Eastbridge Police Department in Eastbridge, New York for approximate three years at the beginning of the series. He manages to lead the department after the deaths of his detectives and colleagues for another five years. He resigns for a while and being replaced by Commissioner James Hayden, who turns out to be a corrupt cop. Mayor Louise Hinton reappoint Tony again as a Commissioner after they arrested the crooked cop.

### Department Units

Dedicated units of the EPD include the Emergency Service Unit, K9, harbor patrol, bomb squad, SWAT Team, criminal intelligence, anti-organized crime, narcotics, Medical Examiner department, public transportation, and public housing units. The EPD employs around 150 people, including almost dozens of uniformed officers. The EPD responded to nearly 50 reports of crime per day and made over dozens arrests throughout the years.

### Commissioner and Police Officers

The department is administered and governed by the police commissioner, who is appointed by the mayor. Technically, the Commissioner serves a five-year term; as a practical matter, they serve at the mayor's pleasure. The commissioner in turn appoints numerous deputy commissioners. By default, the commissioner and their subordinate deputies are civilians under an oath of office and are not sworn officers.

Officers graduate from the Police Academy after five and a half to six months of training in various academic, physical, and tactical fields. For the first 18 months of their careers, they are designated as "Probationary Police Officers", or more informally, "rookies". Promotion from the rank of police officer to detective is discretionary by the police commissioner or required by law when the officer has performed eighteen months or more of investigative duty.

### Diversity, Female Employees, and Female Police

Eastbridge Police Department is predominantly employed white male police officers, and most of them are Italian Americans or Irish Americans while Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians are the minorities in the department. Female employees are only 12% compare to their male counterparts, and many of them are being put on desk jobs. Secretarial jobs and medical examiners have female employees, but not that many. According to Carmela Pagan and Leona Rice, only six female officers who goes on patrol while the rest of them are male officers.

### Uniforms

   All of the police officers are wearing sky blue uniforms with black pants, black ties, black jackets and hats, identical with New York Police Department uniforms as Eastbridge is still a part of New York.

The detectives however are either wearing suits or other formal clothes but this rule is very loose; Chief Detective Paulie Pentangeli usually wears casual sweater and jeans, while Chief Detective Cyd Madison wears mini skirt and high heels. Detective Ronnie Lopez sometimes wear dark leather jackets whenever he is undercover.

### Technology and Weapons

In the 1990s the department developed a computer system of management which has also since been established in other cities. The EPD has a crime scene investigation and laboratory resources, as well as units that assist with computer crime investigations. This is essentially a searchable database the pulls information from departmental records, including traffic tickets, court summonses, and previous complaints to reports, as well as arrest reports. The database contains databases to identify individuals based on tattoos, body marks, teeth, and skin conditions, based on police records.

Prior to 1994, the standard weapon of the EPD was the Smith & Wesson Model 64 DAO a .38 Special revolver with a three- or four-inch barrel and the Ruger Police Service Six with a four-inch barrel. This type of revolver was called the Model NY-1 by the department.

### Vehicles

All the patrol cars are using Blue Chevrolet Caprice and Blue Ford Crown Victoria.

### Other Facilities

The receptionist and the bullpen office are located by the first floor of the municipal building. Whenever citizens wants to report a crime, they go to the front desk and talk to the officer who is working. Front desk is usually occupied by Desk Sergeants such as Sergeant Bill Frawley or Sergeant Frank. Desk Sergeants usually handle reports and calls, and also a booking place where criminals have to be booked. After a criminal is booked, they will transfer them to the bullpen and handled by an officer or a clerk where they take their finger prints. After that, they will transferred the suspect to a photo room where they will have their mugshot taken.

The Police Department also include:

* Cells for detainees.
* Interview rooms for both detainees and non-detained visitors
* Evidence rooms for storing evidence and seized property
* Lockers and storerooms for storing equipment
* A morgue and medical exam rooms
* Car park for fleet vehicles and officer-owned personal vehicles
* A room for personnel from other emergency services

### Commissioner Office

The commissioner office is located on the first floor next to the receptionist area and the detective offices. Tony's office has a waiting area in front where his secretary sitting outside, and then his own office has a window and a wooden desk.

### Police Departments

#### Officials and Chief of Detectives

 Chief of Detectives
 Commissioner

#### Detectives and Police Officers

* Ronnie Lopez (Detective)
* Carmela Pagan (Officer)
* Ricky Caruso (Officer)
* John Hibbs (Officer)
* Mike Rose (Officer)
* Jonathan Papadakis (Officer)
* Gordy Tuefel (Officer/K9 Division)
* Jeff Hartley (Officer)
* Terry Cooper (Officer)
* John Randazzo (Sergeant)
* Calvin Simms (Officer)
* Eileen McManus (Officer)
* Marcia Richards (Detective)
* Art (Detective)
* Murphy (Detective Sergeant)
* Tom Narekian (Detective)
* Bill (Officer)
* Jimmy (Detective)

#### Former Members

* Stan Kelly (Sergeant; KIA)
* Bob Stanton (Officer; deceased)
* Lou Donello (Sergeant; deceased)
* Luke Jarrett (Officer; arrested)
* Pete Cody (Officer; terminated)

#### Staff

* Helen Stags (Secretary/Personal Assistant)
* Lucille (Secretary/Personal Assistant)
* Freddie (Maintenance/Technician)
* Bill Frawley (Desk Sergeant)
* Marty (Medical Examiner)
* Frank (Police Receptionist/Administrative)
* Michelle (Computer Technician)
* Tom (Crime Scene Investigator)

### Notes

The EPD unfortunately has a history of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct, which the news media argue persists to the present.