Monroe Police Department

PATROL OPERATIONS

The Patrol Bureau is staffed by 19 uniformed patrol officers. This bureau is the first line community resource in the Department. Typically 3-4 officers are on patrol at any given time. However as call demands increase, they may be augmented by other available staff such as administrators, detectives, and other support personnel. Their primary duties are the enforcement of law, maintaining order, and protection of life & property. The majority of their efforts involve calls for service and quality of life issues. Officers patrol in cars, on foot, and on bicycles.  One officer is assigned as a School Resource Officer to the schools.

DEPARTMENT K-9 PROGRAM

The Department has a canine (K-9) unit. Several local businesses and individuals contributed funds to purchase K-9 Bane, a Belgian Malinois, for the Department in 2020. Officer Jeremy Larson attended specialized training, and is the assigned handler for tracking, searches, and drug detection.  K-9 Bane is the department's third dog, and all have been purchased with community donations.

BIKE / FOOT PATROL ASSIGNMENTS

As staffing levels and weather permits, officers are given patrol assignments to a specific area on foot, or a region of the city on bicycle. The Department discovered that deploying patrols in this manner encouraged more contact between officers and citizens. What started out as sort of a novelty became a widely recognized and desired detail. Several of our officers are mountain bike patrol certified and comprise a bike unit. The Department currently owns five bike units, all of which were purchased with community donations and grants.