Emergency: 911
Department Phone: (440) 585-1234
Detectives Phone: (440) 585-1234
Address:
30435 Lakeshore Boulevard
Willowick, OH 44095
Department Structure
- We currently are allotted a complement of 22 full time sworn officers. This includes the Chief of Police, 2 Lieutenants, 4 Sergeants, 2 Detectives, 13 patrol officers, a part time court officer, part time Special Detective, and part time IT Officer. Two officer positions were eliminated in the past 5 years through attrition as a result of the economic recession. One of those had been a School Resource Officer that was originally created in 2003 from a COPS grant.
- We also have a civilian staff of 8 dispatchers and a records clerk.
- A K9 unit was established in 2006 and currently K9 officer Brian O'Toole and his K9 partner, Cal, are assigned to regular patrol duties.
- Our Detective Bureau currently has two full-time detectives. Detective Greg Spakes and Detective Chris Olup. Both officers are trained in special investigations, crime scene preservation, evidence collection, narcotics investigations and photography.
- The Willowick Police Department is involved in a number of public relation programs. Ptl. Don Slapnicker has taught the DARE program (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) in the schools since 2015.
- Willowick is part of a 6 city ERT (Emergency Response Team), comprised of SWAT officers and Crisis Negotiators who respond to emergency situations on a mutual aid basis. This unit was begun in Willowick in 1987.
- The Police Department has a computer network that utilizes a CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch system that is provided by Sundance Systems Inc.) and a RMS (Records Management System). We have (7) MDTs (Mobile Data Terminals), all of which are in our marked cruisers and tied into our internal network.
