The City of Okeechobee Police Department is a professional and a progressive law enforcement agency that provides law enforcement and related services to the City of Okeechobee. The current organizational structure of the police department includes one police chief, one major, one uniformed road patrol lieutenant, four uniformed road patrol officers, three detectives, one narcotics investigator, one police services coordinator, four dispatchers, one records

clerk and several certified auxiliary police officers.

Dennis Davis is the current Chief of Police. Having begun his career with the department as a patrolman in 1986, Chief Davis has progressed through the ranks to become the city's top ranking law enforcement officer.

Major Robert Peterson is second in command and is responsible for the oversight of the day-to-day operations of the City Police Department.

The uniformed road patrol section serves as the most visible part of the police department by maintaining a constant police presence in the community, and by performing those vital police patrol functions that help make the city a safer place

for everyone.

The uniformed road patrol is supervised by a road patrol lieutenant and is divided into four separate squads, with each having a road patrol sergeant and two uniformed patrol officers assigned. There is also an extra road patrol officer that works primarily in the evening and at other times when there are a high level of police service calls in the community.

The uniformed road patrol lieutenant in charge of this section is Lt. Donald Hagan. The four sergeants assigned to this section are Sgt. William Hill, Sgt. Thomas Tarner, Sgt. Dawn Wendt and Sgt. Victoria Williams. The officers include Skip Eddings, James Pickering, Belen Reyna, Justin Bernst, Russ Cale, Danny Green, Jack Boon, Kelly Muller and Chad Troutman.

Also assigned to the uniformed road patrol on a part-time basis is school crossing guard Donna Lanning. She is responsible for the safety of our school aged children at Central Elementary School during the academic year.

The Criminal Investigations Section is responsible for conducting in-depth investigations into matters involving crime against persons and property, internal affairs and other areas of concern. Detectives assigned to this section are Detective William Saum, Detective Bettye Taylor and Detective J.P. Ziegler.

The administrative staff and support personnel at the police department include police services coordinator Terisa Garcia, records clerk Jeanna Lanier, police dispatchers Glenda Wilson, Pam Wilkerson, Brandi Gomez and Tammy Houston.

The Okeechobee City Police actively work with community leaders and members through various collaborative efforts that involve implementation of problem solving strategies, promoting crime prevention activities and fostering safety education and awareness programs that help to better inform the citizens in our community on matters of public concern.

The Okeechobee City Police Department is located at 50 SE 2nd Avenue. You can contact them at 863-763-5521 or fax them at 863-763-7804.

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