The City of Medina is 12.5 square miles with a population of 26,200 residents and a population density of 2,540 per square mile. Because of a large amount of retail business, schools and light manufacturing, the city has a service population in excess of 50,000. Officers of the MPD daily patrol 190 curb lane miles in the city and delivered the following service to our residents:
28,427 CALLS FOR POLICE SERVICE
16,848 OFFICER INITIATED CALLS
11,579 CITIZEN INITIATED CALLS
5,015 TRAFFIC STOPS
3,964 TRAFFIC WARNINGS
3,233 SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY STOPS
2,289 TRAFFIC CITATIONS
1,548 ARRESTS MADE
801 CRASH REPORTS
592 ALARM DROPS
448 CARS IMPOUNDED
43 JUVENILE DIVERSION CASES
The department is organized into two divisions. The Patrol Division is responsible for ongoing patrol enforcement operations. The second division is the new Special Operations Division (SOD) which encompasses the Communications Center and its personnel; general duty detectives, the narcotics detective, School Resource Officers, the Records room operation and the Evidence Room.
By organizing along functional lines, we facilitated better communication within the divisions, as well as between the divisions. We have also balanced the number of personnel and programs each division commander is responsible for supervising.Currently, the department has 36 full-time sworn officers including the Chief of Police.