Our department has 39 employees which includes 1 Chief, 3 Lieutenants, 6 Sergeants, 3 Detectives, 16 Officers, 7 Dispatchers and 3 Civilians.

Eight of our employees have served over 25 years and seven employees have served over 15 years. Our department’s average years of service is 13 years.

PATROL DIVISION

This division is the backbone of every municipal law enforcement agency and the Tiffin Police Department is no different. In 2024, our Patrol Division was composed of 1 Lieutenant, 6 Sergeants, 15 Patrol Officers and 1 Student Resource Officer. Officers responded to thefts, auto accidents, suicidal subjects, unattended death investigations, neighbor disputes, drug offenses, robberies, burglaries, alarms, suspicious activity calls, unsecured doors, found or lost property, missing persons and a vast variety of other incidents.

2024 Stats

  • Responded to 12,843 calls for service, an increase of 1,248 calls from the previous year of 11,595 calls
  • Average 35 calls for service per day
  • Conducted 3,075 traffic stops
  • 635 traffic crashes
  • 3,075 traffic stops
  • 5,329 Officer-Initiated calls
  • Issued 900 parking tickets (320 citations, 580 warnings)
  • 10 collisions of the Viaduct Bridge

CRIMINAL DIVISION

The Criminal Division (CD) is responsible for the investigation of multiple and major crimes both adult and juvenile, including homicide, rape, robbery, arson, burglary, fraud and major drug violations. The plain-clothes investigative unit consists of one Lieutenant and two Detectives and one Narcotics Detective (assigned to the drug task force full-time).

2024 Stats

  • 110 Cases opened
  • 142 Cases closed
  • 20% Closed by arrest

STUDENT RESOURCE OFFICER

During the last quarter of 2022, the SRO handled 330 Calls-For-Service. Of those, 302 (91%) were found to be administrative tasks that required no law enforcement action. Law Enforcement action was taken in 26 (9%) Calls-For-Service which resulted in 16 arrests of juveniles. The vast majority of arrest cases involved students in possession of contraband (vape pens) on campus.

DISPATCHERS

Our Communications dispatchers continually monitor telephone lines and active radio frequencies.

2024 Stats

  • 77,240 Police & Fire radio communications
  • 12,843 Dispatched complaints
  • 627 Walk-in complaints
  • Average 5.3 seconds response time/per 911 call

As a unit, our dispatchers have over 56 years of combined experience and dispatch for both Tiffin Police and Tiffin Fire & Rescue. They have completed over 80 hours of advanced training including certifications in Police, Fire & Emergency Medical Dispatch.

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K9 UNIT

The K-9 Unit is an enhanced support function for the Patrol Unit and other departmental units. The K-9 Unit’s primary functions are to respond to calls of incidents with armed or dangerous suspects, in-progress felonies, tracking missing persons or suspects, crowd control, building searches, searches for articles or evidence (including narcotics), and public demonstrations.

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SPECIAL RESPONSE TEAM / CRISIS NEGOTIATION TEAM

SRT is an acronym for Special Response Team. The team consists of specially trained officers from other sections within the police department. They respond to seven main categories of calls:

  • Assist Other Jurisdictions
  • Barricaded subjects – Armed subject(s) barricaded against arrest
  • Heavy Arrest – Arrest of multiple armed felons in a fortified location
  • High Risk Drug Search
  • Warrants
  • Hostage Situations
  • Sniper
  • Special Circumstances (Riot suppression, etc.)

The Tiffin Police Department SRT Team was formed in the fall of 1990 and formally incorporated into department functions in January 1991. The team handles high risk calls that are not otherwise handled by patrol.

The CNT Team is separate from the SRT Team but works closely with them.

CNT is an acronym for Crisis Negotiation Team and was formed in 1994. The team is made up of officers specially trained in the area of negotiations and have attended basic and advanced hostage negotiation courses. The CNT works closely with the SRT Team and are called out to some SRT calls. The CNT deals with the following categories of calls:

  • Barricaded Criminal Suspects
  • Barricaded Suicidal Subjects
  • Hostage Situations
  • Other incidents which require trained negotiators

When a line supervisor requests the SRT or CNT Team they are paged out and respond to the situation at hand. SRT and CNT are support units for the Patrol Division.

METRICH DRUG TASK FORCE

Tiffin Police Department is a participating member of the Seneca County Drug Task Force. The task force is a collaborative effort of local law enforcement agencies including the Tiffin Police Department, Seneca County Sheriff’s Office, Fostoria Police Department, BCI&I and an intelligence agent from the Ohio National Guard. In 2020, the task force moved into a new space within the TPD building.