Police Department

About Your Police Department

Police Department resources are split between three divisions: Administration, Operations, and Support.

Administration

• Department administration maintains the ultimate responsibility for the efficient and effective operation of police services in the city.

Operations Division

• Community Service Officers: Primarily responsible for responding to animal calls, enforcing parking restrictions, assisting with traffic control, and investigating ordinance violations
• Crossing Guards: Responsible for helping school children cross the street at designated crossings during the school year.
• Patrol: Primarily responsible for responding to 911 calls for service, order maintenance, enforcing laws and ordinances, crime suppression, community contacts.
• Traffic Unit: Primarily responsible for enforcement of speeding and traffic laws.
• Training Office: Responsible for providing internal training, securing external training, and maintaining accurate training records.

Support Division

• Investigative Unit: Primarily responsible for the follow-up investigation of criminal complaints, handling of juvenile arrest dispositions, computer-related crime investigation, and multi-jurisdictional investigations.
• Narcotics Unit: Primarily responsible for investigating the sale and/or use of illegal drugs in the city of Wheaton.
• Police Services Unit: Primarily responsible for maintaining police records, data entry, interacting with station visitors, answering non-emergency inquiries, dissemination of internal information.
• Property and Evidence Control: Inventorying, cataloging, and maintaining criminal evidence, chain of custody, and recovered property.
• School Liaison Officers: Assigned to both public high schools, provide police services to the school, staff, and students, cultivate relationships with community youths, provide personal safety and crime prevention strategies.