General Information

The Police Department moved from its facilities at 882 Main Street to its current location at 433 Orchard Street. The new 13,040 square foot facility is adjacent to the existing Village fire station. The building is a two-story structure with a jail that contains four adult cells, one juvenile holding cell and one addition group holding cell that can accompany up to twelve persons.  The station also houses Police administration, investigations, training facilities, storage for evidence and records, and a reception area. 

The Administrative Department of the Police Department is headed by Chief James Foerster. Deputy Chief Ron Roth is second in command. 

Four of the Department's sworn officers are certified to teach the DARE (Drug Awareness and Resistance Education) Program in all the local grade schools. The Officers teach this program throughout the school year with graduation ceremonies at the end of each semester. The Officers teach fifth grade students and make them aware of the effects of drugs on the body and the social aspect of drug abuse. These fifth graders are also taught the legal consequences of illegal possession of drugs.

The Antioch Police Department has a certified TIPS (Training Intervention Procedures by Servers of Alcohol) training instructor. The purpose of the TIPS program is to educate about alcohol consumption and its influence on the human body and mind. This educational program is to help bartenders and dispensers of alcoholic beverages to detect the limits a person has to alcohol.

The Department has a Crime Prevention Officer who appears before community organizations, giving instructions and presentations regarding neighborhood watch programs, how to spot shoplifters, and other crime prevention techniques. The Crime Prevention Officer also makes numerous appearances at all the local schools when requested to give various presentations on crime prevention.

The Department also employs a School Liaison Officer assigned full time to Antioch Community High School and Antioch Upper Grade School. This Liaison Officer is a result of the President's COPS Grant. The duties of the School Liaison Officer are to promote a good rapport between the police officers and the students at school and a good working relationship with school officials and counselors. 

In March 1993, the Antioch Police Department became part of the Lake County Enhanced 911 system. For more information on the 911 Center, please see the Facilities page.

The Antioch Police Department also conducts a Teen Court program which has proven very successful. Teen Court is a community policing program which gives juvenile offenders an alternative to court by instead facing a court of their peers.

The Police Department has full-time motorcycle and bike-patrol units and serves as part of Lake County MEG (Metropolitan Enforcement Group.

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