Soledad Police Department

Mission Statement

The Soledad Police Department will seek to follow the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics as our standard of professionalism, treating all individuals with appropriate dignity and respect. Our goal as an organization is to work with the community to efficiently and effectively ensure the public safety in a professional manner. Excellence in customer service is a basic organizational goal. This is our community and your Police Department.

Departments function

The Soledad Police Department is committed to delivering professional and responsible police service to every member of the community with honesty, integrity, and impartiality. To deliver that level of service to the community the Department authorized staff consists of one (1) Police Chief, one (1) Police Lieutenant, four (4) Police Sergeants, Seventeen (17) Police Officers, one (1) Administrative Secretary, one (1) Office Assistant, and one (1) regular, full-time Animal Control Officer who works twenty (40) hours each week. Rounding out the Department staff are two (2) individuals who serve as volunteer Reserve Police Officers. The volunteer Reserve Officers receive no monetary compensation for their services.

To augment the current staff the Police Department is aggressively pursuing highly competitive federal grant funds to support an additional School Resource Officer and another Police Officer.

Introduction

The Soledad Police Department is located at 236 Main Street and provides general law enforcement duties including the enforcement of federal, state and local laws. The Police Department has one Chief, one Lieutenant, four sergeants, seventeen full-time officers, and one full-time animal control officer and support staff. Services also include animal control, parking enforcement, vehicle abatement, traffic control and criminal investigations. The Soledad Police department also provides community awareness and training workshops.

The Police Department strives to provide a minimum service standard of 1 officer for every 1,000 citizens. Not counting the prison population there are 1.47 officers for every 1,000 people in Soledad.

The Soledad Police Department is dedicated to excellence as a world class public safety agency. We are committed to establishing an environment in which members of the department and community thrive. We seek to be a catalyst for positive change through persistent, personalized and cost effective use of public safety resources. By embracing the values of pride, professionalism and integrity we remain committed to maintaining the public trust.

We Engage the Community
We dedicate ourselves to becoming part of the community through improved communication, mutual setting of priorities and a shared commitment to community policing. Together, our efforts will set the standard for policing in the 21st century.

We Solve Problems
We seek to improve the quality of life for all residents of Soledad through a proactive team approach to timely and innovative interventions in community problems. We recognize that our employees are our most treasured asset and the cornerstone of our department's success. We value the diverse and unique contributions made by police employees, residents and businesses to the common goal of public safety.

Monterey County Joint Gang Task Force

The City of Soledad has joined the Monterey County Joint Gang Task Force to help fight gang violence in our community.  For additional information, please visit Monterey County Joint Gang Task Force - Home Page.