| City of Titusville Police Department | |
| Common name | Titusville Police Department |
| Abbreviation | TPD |
| Titusville Police Department patch | |
| Titusville Police Department badge | |
| Agency overview | |
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| Employees | 131 |
| Volunteers | 38 |
| Annual budget | $10,017,813.00 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | City of Titusville in the state of Florida, US |
| Brevard County, Florida | |
| Size | 67 km2 |
| Population | 40,670 |
| Legal jurisdiction | As per operations jurisdiction. |
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| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | 1100 John Glenn Boulevard, Titusville, Florida |
| Police Officers | 84 |
| Civilians | 47 |
| Agency executive | Anthony C. Bollinger, Chief of Police |
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| Facilities | |
| Stations | 1 |
| Website | |
| http://www.titusville.com/SectionIndex.asp?SectionID=7 | |
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| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Titusville Police Department (TPD) is the police force with the primary responsibility of public safety and the enforcement of state laws and county/ municipal ordinances in the city of Titusville, Florida.
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The Titusville Police Department, headed by the Chief of Police, is organized into six divisions: the Patrol Division, the Investigations Division, the Professional Standards Division, the Administrative Division, the Support Services Division, and the Tactical Operations Division. The Patrol Division and the Investigations Division together make up the Operations Bureau, which is headed by the Assistant Chief, while one major supervises each division.[1]
TPD has a fleet of over 70 vehicles, including marked and unmarked patrol cars (most of which are Chevrolet Impalas), undercover vehicles, sport utility vehicles, Community Service Officer vehicles, motorcycles, ATVs, golf carts, a crime scene truck, a SWAT truck, and many other vehicles necessary for responding to the multitude of different calls for service it receives. The Chief of Police has begun driving an unmarked Chrysler 300, which was seized from a criminal.
TPD has a newsletter, called the TPD Shield, which it uses to communicate with the community as a crime prevention tool. This awareness-raising publication is paid for by forfeiture funds at no cost to the taxpayer.
Titusville police are worthless pigs. They waste our money! there's to many police officers in this town that are not really needed.
Officer Jack Henry Schnell, ID 716, was killed on New Year's Eve 1982. While he was on motor DUI patrol, a drunk driver pulled out in front of Officer Schnell's motor, causing a collision which threw him from the motorcycle, and he landed on his head. Later, in the hospital, Officer Schnell died of the severe head injuries he sustained. Being an officer involved crash, the incident was investigated not by TPD but by the Florida Highway Patrol. State Troopers charged the driver with DUI/Manslaughter, of which he was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison. At the time of the manslaughter, Officer Schnell was 35 years old and had served TPD for 14 years.[2][3]
Officer Stephen Franklin House, ID 726, was shot and killed on February 15, 1989. Officer House was conducting a building search with the emergency response team. During this operation, the suspect was taken into custody, but his father ran to a bedroom, in which he barricaded himself. When Officer House attempted to make entry, the man began to fire at him, resulting in Officer House receiving a fatal gunshot wound. The gunman was charged with murder, but he was acquitted and released. At the time of the homicide, Officer House was 36 years old and had served TPD for 7 years.[3][4]
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