The Antioch Police Department is a
police
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and t ...
department serving the
East Bay
The East Bay is the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area and includes cities along the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay. The region has grown to include inland communities in Alameda and Contra Costa countie ...
city of
Antioch, California
Antioch is the third-largest city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. Located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area along the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. The city's population was 115,291 at the 2020 Unite ...
in the
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Go ...
.
History
The police department was created in 1872 to handle security and law enforcement in the coal mining town of hundreds that was 19th Century Antioch. By the 2010 census the department was policing over 102,000 Antiochites. The police chief is Tammany Brooks.
AntiochPolice
/ref> In 2011 the department expressed serious concerns for the lack of a planning for a safety officer at the future Antioch eBART station.[BART addresses security concerns for Hillcrest eBART station](_blank)
. Paul Bulgarino. Contra Costa Times. 14-04-2011. Retrieved 17-04-2011. Due to funding issues, this station may be actually be policed in whole or in part by the APD instead of the BART Police Department
The BART Police (BARTPD), officially the Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department, is the transit police agency of the BART rail system in the U.S. state of California. The department has approximately three hundred police personnel, including ov ...
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See also
* Killing of Angelo Quinto
Angelo Quinto (March 10, 1990 – December 26, 2020) was a 30-year-old Filipino-American Navy veteran who died on December 26, 2020, from complications after being knelt on the neck by a police officer three days earlier. Prior to the encounter, p ...
* List of law enforcement agencies in California
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in California, including local (city), county, and statewide agencies. Historic agencies are included.
According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 ''Census of State and Local Law Enforcem ...
External links
Antioch police official page
References
Antioch, California
Municipal police departments of California
Law enforcement in the San Francisco Bay Area
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