Alderney City Police Department

14 (Reserves)

7 (CSO’s)

4 dogs

Total: 185

**Alderney City Police Department** is the main law enforcement agency that serves the jurisdictions of Acter, Acter Industrial Park, Berchem, Leftwood, Normandy, Port Tudor, Tudor & Westdyke.

## Organization

The Alderney Police Department has one facility for the department and a small portion of the facility houses the Leftwood Police Department. APD is led by the Chief of Police with the assistance of the Assistant Chief of Police as the second in command. From there the department is broken down into two divisions, Patrol Operations and Special Operations. The Patrol Operations Division has 4 patrol Lieutenants who are patrol shift commanders. Each Lieutenant has 4 Sergeants under them who act as patrol team leaders who supervise a team of patrol officers ranging from often times being 4-8 officers. The Special Operations Division has a Investigations Lieutenant and SWAT Lieutenant. Investigations is broken down into two units each led by a Sergeant, standard investigations and specialty investigations. Specialty consists of 4 school liaison officers, 2 narcotics officers. Standard consists of 4 Detectives and 2 Evidence Technicians assigned to general crimes. SWAT has two separate tactical response teams that are led by a Sergeant, each team on call 12 hours of the day (day and night) regarding SWAT operations and serve as patrol officers otherwise. SWAT also has a Public Liaison Sergeant and K9 Sergeant. Public Liaison has 4 officers and K9 has a total of 8 which includes its 4 dog handlers and 4 canines.

Lieutenants, the Assistant Chief and Chief of Police along with Detectives all and the departments K9 Sergeant work administrative business hours Monday-Friday, 7:30am-5:00pm. While other officers work 12 hour shifts.

### **Unsworn**

The department also has two unsworn uniformed units and those being an active police reserve unit led by a Reserve Captain and a Community Services Unit which is led by the PD Community Services Coordinator. Community Service Officers who are unarmed focus on animal control complaints, traffic control, and parking enforcement. Reserves are unarmed and focus on light departmental tasks, these tasks ranging from but aren’t limited to traffic control, fundraisers, community events, event security, and assist the departments sworn officers with small tasks where extra staff are needed, etc.

The unsworn administrative division composes of a manager, assistant manager, records supervisor, communications supervisor, 5 records specialists, 7 around the clock dispatchers that also work cooperatively with Liberty County dispatch and nearby emergency services dispatch centers.

## Rank Structure

* **Chief of Police (1)**
* **Assistant Chief (1)**
* **Lieutenant (6)**
* **Sergeant (24)**
* **Police Officer (86)**
* **SWAT Officer (8)**
* **K9 Officer (4)**
* **Public Liaison Officer (4)**
* **Detective (12)**
* **Canine dog (4)**

## **Image Gallery**

### **Vehicle fleet**

* 34 Patrol Ford Interceptors
* 14 Patrol Ford Crown Victorias
* 6 Investigative Ford Crown Victorias
* 4 PLO Tahoes
* 2 SWAT Bearcats
* 4 Administrative unmarked Ford Crown Victorias
* 5 Unmarked Ford Explorers