Woodland Police Department

Patrol officers with the Woodland Police Department in California cover the city 24 hours a day, often keeping the same beat for four months or longer, and they pair traditional enforcement with community policing and real-time crime analysis to address chronic problems. The Investigations Bureau follows up on felonies and selected misdemeanors, and its Crime Analysis Unit tracks gang activity together with Yolo County Probation and state parole. The Community Relations Bureau houses crime prevention, school resource officers at Woodland Joint Unified campuses, a traffic unit and the Homeless Outreach Street Team, which handles outreach, enforcement, education and cleanups. Motor officers are called out to collisions involving serious injury or death and teach the Impact Teen Driver class with the California Highway Patrol, and school resource officers take part in Gang Resistance Education and Training lessons and Police Activity League events. The drone program, launched in fall 2022 after public meetings, supports tactical operations, and its policy bars drones from general surveillance or routine patrol. Residents can file reports online and check arrest logs, case logs and a crime map updated each business day.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 2023), Woodland city, CA has an estimated population of 61,256.