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Administration
Chief of Police
Chief of Police Robert Thompson is responsible for developing policy for the overall mission of the Department. His primary responsibility is setting the vision, organizational tone, and fiscal management for the organization.
Field Operations Division
Operations Commander Captain Thomas Cordova’s primary responsibility is to provide general management, direction, and control for the Operations Division. The Operations Division consists of the patrol bureau, jail operations, community service officers, and support for all other police operations.
Police Records Division
Renee Protich is the Police Records Supervisor, supervising the Records Section, and the Custodian of Records for the Police Department.
Commendations or Concerns
We always want to know what we’re doing right, and what we can do better. Feedback from the community is essential to the health and direction of any organization. We are working on ways to make letting us know how we’re doing easier for you. While we work on that, please see below for ways to provide feedback.
Commending Superior Performance
If you wish to commend the action of any Dixon Police Department employee, you can:
- Contact any supervisor of the Dixon Police Department to provide your information
- Send an email to the Department or give us a call at 707-678-7070
We want to know when we get it right, and hearing from you is the best way to know it.
Concerns About Performance
We also want to know when you had an experience which wasn’t to your expectations. You can contact us regarding an employee or departmental conduct you have concerns about by:
- Contact any supervisor of the Dixon Police Department to provide your information
- Contacting the Chief of Police at 707-678-7070
- Complete the Citizen Feedback Form, and send it by email to the Chief of Police or by mail to:
Dixon Police Department
Office of the Chief of Police
201 West A Street
Dixon, CA 95620
We take all concerns seriously, and will promptly address any we receive.
Year-End Reports
Check out the year-end reports for the Police Department.
- Monday - Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm
Animal Control
Chapter four of the Solano County Code addresses animals and fowl. Section 4-13 (b) states, “No person owning, having an interest in, harboring, or having charge, care, control, custody, or possession of any animal shall cause or permit such animal to be at large in or upon any public street, road, alley, or other public place or in or upon any unenclosed lot or premises, unless such animal is under restraint by leash, lead, or chain, or at “heel” beside a competent person or obedient to that person's command, or confined.”
Since 1997, when the City of Dixon entered into a Joint Powers Authority agreement with Solano County Animal Services, violations of the leash law and other sections of chapter four have been enforced through the Humane Animal Services (HAS).
Humane Animal Services
HAS is a nonprofit organization contracted by some of the Solano County cities to be their official animal control agency. The organization consists of a sworn director, five officers, and a secretary / dispatcher.
The officers are highly trained, meeting state humane officer standards, police officer standards, and training certification. HAS is available to assist in a variety of animal related situations, including nuisance, dangerous, city wildlife problems, strays, and more. If there are problems or questions beyond the scope of HAS, the staff will connect you with the appropriate local, county, state, or independent resource.
Responsibilities
The duties of HAS officers include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Enforce state, county, and city laws pertaining to animals within city limits
- Impound stray, abandoned, dangerous, and unruly animals pursuant to city laws
- Promote responsible pet ownership for care compliance and liability
- Protect animals from abuse and neglect or other forms of mistreatment
- Protect the community and private property from damage caused by unruly animals
- Seek emergency medical treatment for sick or injured stray animals
- Work with the community to resolve issues involving animals, pet owners, and neighbors of pet owners
- Sunday - Saturday 8:00am - 5:00pm
Code Compliance
Services Offered by Other Departments
- Parking Violations - Dixon Police Department 707-678-7080
- Reporting Animal Nuisances - Solano Humane Animal Services 707-449-1700
- Reporting Graffiti - Dixon Police Department 707-678-7080. View the Graffiti Abatement Release of Liability and Hold Harmless Agreement form-(PDF)
Our Mission
The mission of the Code Compliance Division of the Dixon Police Department is to educate the public on City Codes. With the cooperation of property owners we can reduce the number of abandoned and inoperative vehicles, unsightly accumulation of debris, junk and other defined nuisances. By enforcing the City’s Municipal Codes; property values will rise, quality of life will increase, neighborhoods will become more beautiful, and the City will be a safer place to live.
Frequent Code Violations
- 9.01.020 (A) Storing, keeping or maintaining weeds, dry or dead vegetation, papers or paper products, and other combustible and noncombustible refuse or waste.
- 9.01.020 (B) Storing, keeping or maintaining: vehicle parts; scrap metal; bottles; cans; wire; firewood; boxes; containers; wood and building materials no longer usable for their intended purpose; tools; machinery; equipment or parts thereof; or abandoned, discarded or unused household furniture or appliances.
- 9.01.020 (C) Storing, keeping or maintaining: rubbish; refuse; trash; junk; garbage; and other waste or discarded material, including but not limited to, the accumulation of asphalt, concrete, plaster, tile, rocks, bricks, crates, cartons, boxes, dirt, sand or gravel.
- 9.01.020 (D) Storing, parking, keeping or maintaining: wrecked, dismantled, inoperative or abandoned vehicles, on private property which are in view from the public streets or neighboring properties. The mere covering of a vehicle with a tarpaulin or other temporary cover or structure does not constitute removal of the vehicle from view. This subsection shall not apply to vehicle storage yards, automobile dismantling yards, wrecking yards or approved vehicle repair facilities when properly zoned for such uses or when such vehicles are actually in the process of being repaired and not being used as a source for parts.
- 9.01.020 (K) Any vehicle or portion thereof and/or any equipment located on private or public property or in the public right-of-way, or any nonresidential building or structure, being used for living or sleeping purposes except for travel trailers being used on property properly zoned for such use.
- 9.01.020 (M) The existence of any condition or use which unlawfully obstructs, injures, or interferes with the free passage or use in the customary manner of property, any public park, street, highway, sidewalk, and any other portion of the public right-of-way.
- 9.01.020 (S) The existence of graffiti on any building, fence, wall, equipment, motor vehicle, trailer, sign or other object on private or public property or in the public right-of-way.
- 9.01.020 (W) Storing, parking, keeping or maintaining of operative vehicles, boats, vessels, trailers or camper shells on any portion of a required front yard area other than the driveway or immediately adjacent paved driveway extension.
- 9.01.020 (X) Storing, keeping or maintaining trash cans, refuse cans, recyclable containers and/or other such containers in the front yard area or other visible yard area at times other than the day of collection or prior to six p.m. of the day prior to the day of collection.
- 9.01.020 (AA.) Maintenance of any tree, shrub or other vegetation such that it impairs passage along a public sidewalk, impairs the ability of drivers to see any traffic sign, impairs the ability of drivers to see other traffic, or blocks any streetlight.
To view our Weed Abatement Courtesy Notice click here.
Please call 707-678-7070 or email us with any questions you may have regarding the above Dixon Municipal Codes.
- Monday - Thursday 9:00am - 4:00pm
Community Services
The Police Department operates a Community Action & Awareness program, led by a police sergeant. This program expanded in 2017 to encompass a wide range of services and programs the Dixon Police Department offers to the community.
Grounded in the philosophy of sustained and continuous engagement, the police department believes the more ways we can positively interact with our residents and businesses, the more effective we are in promoting the sense of respect, trust and order needed to serve our city.
From community events, like our annual May Fair parade and festival, to youth leadership and mentorship programs like our cadet program, Community Action & Awareness services provide important outreach efforts to engage different elements of our city.
We were proud to participate in events like National Night Out, the Law Enforcement Special Olympics Torch Run, Grillin-N-Chillin, Neighborhood Watch programs, Christmas tree lighting ceremony and others. These events allow police employees to interact with residents in settings designed to promote interactions, discussion and understanding about how we can provide excellent service to Dixon.
Homeless Outreach Program and Services
Homelessness is not a problem a city can arrest our way out of. Recognizing there are a constellation of factors in addressing the real challenges of homelessness, and the impacts to the community, the Dixon Police Department partnered with the Vacaville Police Department in developing a homeless outreach and advocacy program. This innovate program, which went live in 2017, took a non-traditional approach to the problem .
Police and Social Services Partnerships
Dixon police officers receive program and outreach support from a licensed clinical social worker shared between Dixon and Vacaville. This position, funded through a cost sharing agreement through grants, enables Dixon police who encounter residents with challenging circumstances to offer programs and services as a way to address those challenges.
Through the Community Action & Awareness Unit, officers and staff can assess, in the field, needs from housing to job training to mental health and align those needs with resources available to combat them. This approach treats those in need with dignity and respect, provides services when available to help them, and potentially ends a cycle of homelessness or chronic and consistent barriers to assistance.
Investigations
The responsibility of the Investigative Services Section is to conduct follow-up investigations of all reported felony offenses and certain misdemeanor offenses that occur in the City of Dixon. The Division's detectives investigate crimes that have possible suspects or leads which may be too complex or time consuming for the assigned patrol officer to accommodate in a timely manner. Detectives are dedicated to efficient, timely and thorough criminal investigations to determine facts as they relate to the innocence or guilt of those suspected of criminal activity.
The objectives of such investigations are the identification and prosecution of those individuals responsible for the crime.
The Investigations Division consists of several components with distinct responsibilities:
- Auto Theft - responsible for the investigation of stolen vehicles (felony and misdemeanor), and receiving stolen property offenses involving vehicles.
- Crimes against Juveniles - responsible for investigating child neglect or abuse.
- Crimes Against Persons - responsible for the investigation of homicides, questionable deaths, robberies, aggravated assaults, adult missing persons, and Computer Voice Stress Analyzer (CVSA).
- Economic Crimes - responsible for the investigation of white-collar crimes, including forgery, fraud, misuse of credit cards, Identity Theft, embezzlement, and High-Tech Crimes.
- Family Violence - responsible for the investigation of Domestic Violence, Elder Abuse and providing victim advocate services to crime victims and witnesses.
- Property Crimes - responsible for the investigation of property crimes including vandalism, burglary, theft, and receiving stolen property.
- Sexual Assaults - responsible for the investigation of sexual battery, rape, and other sex offenses (felony and misdemeanor).
Narcotics & Drug Activity
The City of Dixon Police Department actively pursues drug violators and illegal narcotic activity within the City of Dixon. The Investigations Unit conducts ongoing investigations into those individuals who are suspected of possessing illegal narcotics and or possession of illegal narcotics for sales. Both Patrol Officers and Detectives aggressively pursue individuals who are suspected of being involved in local streets sales of illegal narcotics.
Patrol Services Unit
The Field Operations Division is responsible for community-oriented policing that promotes neighborhood-based problem solving, at-risk youth intervention, collaborative partnerships with business, innovative community programs, and superior customer service.
Community Policing
The Dixon Police Department has embraced a policing philosophy designed to promote quality of life within our community by working to find long-term solutions to problems. To assist in community policing, the Dixon Police Department has implemented Sub-Beats within the city of Dixon. A Patrol Officer is assigned to each Sub-Beat and are responsible for building relationships, solving problems and developing working partnerships with residents and business owners. Patrol officers serve as the City’s “eyes and ears” in their geographic beats and report problems that require responses from public works and other City departments. See which officers are responsible for your neighborhood with our Sub-Beat Officer Directory.
Patrol Services Unit
The Patrol Services Unit provides full service to the Dixon community 24 hours a day. Police services can be summoned through the Solano County Sheriff’s Department Communications Center by dialing 911 for emergencies or 707-678-7080 for non-emergencies.
The Patrol Services Division investigates thousands of cases each year. These cases include simple misdemeanors to felonies and everything in between, such as:
- Assault
- Burglaries
- Prowlers
- Suspicious activity
- Theft
- Vandalism
- And more
Traffic Accidents
The Patrol Services Division is responsible for the investigation of traffic accidents that occur throughout the city. Locations of recent accidents and citizen complaints are targeted for enforcement. In addition to speed enforcement, patrol officers are on the lookout for other traffic violators, such as stop sign / stop light violators, general operation violators, improper registrations and / or driver's license, and seat belt violators.
Customer Service
The Patrol Services Division has customer service in mind when it comes to responding to our citizens' needs. People needing emergency service need it quickly; The Dixon Police Department strives to arrive at life threatening emergencies within four minutes. Our non-emergency customers also deserve timely service. We strive to reach these kinds of calls for service within 11 minutes.
Community Services Officers (CSOs)
The Community Services Officer (CSO) has a wide range of duties and responsibilities which include parking enforcement, assisting police officers, detectives and other police personal across a broad spectrum
- Monday - Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm
Property and Evidence
Our Property & Evidence Section is staffed by dedicated Community Service Officers who have special training in the processing and handling of items coming into the department. When officers seize evidence on the street, detectives recover evidence at a crime scene, or staff locates found property, these staff members sort and store them.
Property & Evidence technicians use the new evidence module in our RMS to track the location and disposition of every piece of property that comes into the police department.
They process drugs and physical evidence, produce evidentiary discovery for trail, and dispose of items no longer needed by the department. There are thousands of pieces of property in police custody.
In 2017, the police department began an ambitious project to purge items from inventory not needed for prosecution. A backlog spanning years existed which required a serious effort to address. Staff worked through 2017 to make substantial inroads in modernizing the evidence tracking system and purging old items from inventory. These efforts will continue into 2018.
- Monday - Friday 9:00am - 4:00pm
Records
The Dixon Police Department Records Section is the repository, retrieval and records management center for all official incident reports and warrants for the city.
Records personnel process requests for information regarding incident reports. Requests for information can be received by mail, fax, or walk-in during normal business hours.
Fees, Permits & City Codes
|
Permit |
Fee |
| Evidence Photos/Tapes, per photo/tape Digital Media, Per Device | $14.00 |
| Immigration Letters | $14.00 |
| Live Scan Fingerprinting | $66.00 |
| Annual Overnight Truck Parking Permit | $295.00 |
| Vehicle Repossession Release | $15.00 |
| Vehicle Release Fee | $180.00 |
| Citation Sign Off | $38.00 |
| DUI Response | $341.00 |
| Redacted Video- Per 1 Hour of Video | $639.00 |
| Redacted Police Report | $22.00 |
| Outside Redaction (plus actual cost) | $175.00 |
Garage Sales & Other Things
There are a variety of other services the City of Dixon Police Department provides for it citizens. During normal business hours, 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday the front service counter is open for business.
During this time anyone can come into the Police Department and purchase a Garage Sale Permit for $7.50.
There is also information at the front counter concerning such items as child safety, gun safety and gun lock information, as well as referral services for such things as family violence, child abuse, and mental health issues.
Special Events
A Special Event is defined as any assembly of persons of fifty (50) people or more on city property or right-of-way; or an event that obstructs the normal flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic; or is a hazard to the public peace, health, safety or general welfare of the community.
Applications must be complete and include all attachments. The due dates are as follows:
- Block Party - 14 days in advance
- Special Event- 45 days in advance
- Highway 113 Closure- 120 days in advance
Any application submitted after the deadline is subject to denial based on lack of adequate time for approval. Any application that does not provide the minimum items required in each section is incomplete and the review may not be completed within the needed time for approval.
Applications may be submitted at City Hall (600 East A St., Dixon, CA 95620) or by email to events@cityofdixon.us.
Special Event Permit Application Form
City Codes
- Monday - Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm