The Antioch Police Department is a
police
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department serving the
East Bay
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city of
Antioch, California
Antioch is the third-most populous city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city is located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area along the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. The city's population was 115,29 ...
in the
San Francisco Bay Area
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.
Organization
The department is organized into two divisions that administer a number of bureaus.
* Field Services
** Patrol
**Community Engagement
**Traffic Bureau
* Support Services
**Administration
**Dispatch
**Investigations
**Special Operations
**Records.
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. 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.
After the 2020 police-related death of
Angelo Quinto, California banned police holds that might result in asphyxiation.
In April 2023, press reports described an investigation into misconduct in the department. This included dozens of racist texts sent between officers. At that time, a federal grand jury was looking into allegations of charging officers with assault under color of authority, fraud, distribution of steroids and cocaine, as well as eliciting false confessions and accepting bribes to make traffic tickets go away. Newspaper accounts at the time reported that about 20 percent of the force was suspended.
In 2023, nine serving and former police officers were arrested by the FBI on charges related to distribute narcotics, altering and falsifying records of a federal investigation, wire fraud where officers allegedly defrauded money from the police department, civil rights violations and obstruction of justice. Six of those arrested were serving or former Antioch Police officers. Three more are associated with the nearby
Pittsburg Police Department.
See also
*
Killing of Angelo Quinto
*
List of law enforcement agencies in California
According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 ''Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies'', 509 law enforcement agencies exist in the U.S. state of California, employing 79,431 sworn police officers—about 217 for each 100 ...
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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