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Every day, the Fairfield Police Department is honored to serve, build partnerships with, and collaborate with each of you. You don’t hesitate to call us when you are in need or when you see something that isn’t right. That’s a sign of trust we don’t take lightly, and we will continue to build and maintain that trust through transparency, exemplary values, dedication, and our extraordinary work ethic.

By working together, we will achieve our vision of reducing harm by advancing safety, service and the quality of life in Fairfield. We believe success starts with our people - the people we hire and who engage with you every day.
Today, your police department is allotted 126 sworn positions, 116 of which are filled. Of the remaining 10 positions, 4 are frozen due to budget constraints, leaving only 6 vacancies that we expect to fill soon.

Your officers range in age (from 26 to 53) and boast backgrounds just as diverse as the community we serve. It’s a community many of our officers and professional staff grew up in, live in, and have friends and family in. Even more importantly, it’s a community we all want to see flourish and are passionate about protecting.

Our passion for the work we do is reflected in the numbers:

In 2024, violent crime in Fairfield dropped by an additional 4%. Property crime decreased by 20%, with crime in the city overall dropping by 15%, compared to 2023.

We continued our efforts to enforce the law, with sworn officers seizing more than 286 firearms last year. Of course, moving more illegal firearms off our city’s streets meant less shootings and less homicides.

In fact, in 2024, the City of Fairfield saw only 2 homicides - a record low and down from 7 homicides in 2023. Both homicides were solved in rapid succession by our Investigations team.

Property crimes decreased by 20%, including incidents of robbery, burglary, larceny/theft, and motor vehicle theft.

In 2024, we also began making quick use of Proposition 36 for crimes involving theft and drugs. Harsher sentences for crime equal a greater deterrent and we expect to see those numbers decline in 2025 as a result.

Our passion also extends to traffic safety. 2024 saw an increase in traffic enforcement efforts, officer visibility, adjustments by the City to speed limits and traffic devices on some of our most challenging roads, and the exercise of safety awareness by more motorists. As a result, only 1306 crashes required investigation in 2024, compared to 1345 crash investigations in 2023.

DUI crashes resulting in injury also decreased, with only 36 such incidents occurring last year. Our Traffic Unit also arrested even more DUI drivers in 2024, with 319 impaired motorists taken into custody and held accountable for their actions.

Unfortunately, however, although the number of total traffic accidents decreased, there were 9 fatal crashes in 2024 - up from 5 in 2023. The bulk of those crashes were pedestrian versus vehicle crashes, several of which occurred over the course of two weeks. Our reaction to this challenge was swift and involved a ramp up in public education, and even more pointed traffic enforcement operations and patrols in the areas identified as places of most concern by YOU. You spoke, we listened - and we will continue to listen to you moving forward.

In 2024, we also continued making time for invaluable training courses designed to make our sworn personnel better people, and better guardians. Required classes included De-escalation Training, Principled Policing Training, Crisis Response and Intervention Training, Active Killer training, and a host of other trainings held in collaboration with our friends at the Fairfield Fire Department.

Speaking of collaboration, I’d be remiss if I didn’t thank all of our local and regional partners for making 2024 an incredible year – like Travis Air Force Base.

Over the course of the last year, our Mobile Field Force responded to several protests at Travis AFB. It was our valued partnership with Security Forces and local law enforcement agencies that helped us ensure airmen were able to safely get to work and conduct business.

Our thanks also extends to a multitude of other groups serving wider Fairfield. Our relationships and partnerships with other organizations around the city enabled us to participate in a whopping 83 community events in 2024, each giving us one-on-one time with the diverse people who together make Fairfield what it is today.

We’re grateful for the non-profit organizations, interest groups, school districts, the church community, local businesses, and larger (but still local) businesses that made these engagement opportunities not only successful, but memorable.

Fairfield is not the city it used to be, and that’s due in large part to the bridge this department has built with each of you. 

We are stronger, together, and together “We are Fairfield” - working to make the City we love a better place to live, work, play and raise a family.
 
- Chief Dan Marshall