Patrol Operations
The Patrol Division is lead by Captain Darren Pytel. Captain Pytel has been a member of the Davis Police Department since 1991.
Patrol is the backbone of the Davis Police Department. We respond to everything from burglaries in progress to noisy animals, family disturbances to traffic collisions. You can rest assured that when you call 9-1-1 in Davis, a Police Officer is on their way!
The Davis Police Department operates a Patrol Division consisting of 2 Lieutenants, 5 Sergeants, 28 Sworn Officers, 4 Reserve Police
Officers, 3 Civilian Police Service Specialists, and 1 Community Services Officer. The Patrol Division utilizes a modified 3/12 work schedule (3 or 4 workdays a week, twelve hours a day) to maximize a team policing effort.
The Patrol Division handles an average of 4,600 calls for service per month including officer initiated activities. These include calls related to criminal investigations, traffic collisions and suspicious circumstances; domestic violence cases, driving under the influence of alcohol, alarms at residential and commercial buildings, medical aid calls and calls to assist other allied agencies such as the UC Davis Police Department. Officer initiated activity is also an important aspect of the Patrol Division function which includes traffic enforcement, parking enforcement, crime suppression and directed patrol of neighborhoods, apartments and business areas. In addition to routine patrol, officers work bicycle patrol in downtown Davis.
Our Police Service Specialists assist Patrol Officers by taking cold crime and incident reports, towing vehicles, crime prevention, evidence collection, traffic control and other administrative details. The department has one Community Services Officer who is responsible for towing abandoned vehicles throughout the City of Davis.
View our Crimemapper web page for more information about the crimes accurring in your neighborhood. See our City Map to view our beat configuration. If you would like to contact your beat officer, please visit our Beat Officer page.
Thank you for visiting our Patrol web page. Enjoy going through our web pages, which reflect the different sections in the Patrol Division that provide service to the Davis community. We are committed to provide the best possible service to the citizens of Davis.
We are always looking for ways to improve our services. If you have suggestions on improving our web pages or police services, please take a minute and send our web master an email with your comments.
