Farmers Branch Police Department
| Farmers Branch Police Department | |
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | c. 1850 |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction | Farmers Branch, Texas, United States |
| Size | 12 square miles (31 km2) |
| Population | 40,209 (2018 estimate) |
| Legal jurisdiction | Farmers Branch |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | 3723 Valley View Lane, Farmers Branch, Texas |
| Agency executive |
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| Website | |
| farmersbranchtx | |
The Farmers Branch Police Department operates in Farmers Branch, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, Texas with a population of about forty thousand people.
The chief is Kevin McCoy.[1] The department has two divisions, Patrol, and Support Services Division. The Department has a bike patrol, and police dog unit.[2] It also operates a jail with sixteen officers assigned.[3] The jail is a short-term lockup that holds prisoners for less than three days.[4]
One of the department's officers has died in the line of duty. In August 1983, Officer Lowell Clayton Tribble was shot from ambush and killed. Although a suspect was charged, the case is still unsolved.[5]
In November 2007, the department conducted a series of police raids on Unique Performance properties. Unique Performance was a company in Farmers Branch that built Carroll Shelby-licensed "Eleanor" Mustangs and Chip Foose 1969 Camaros. However, several customers complained that they had paid for cars and not received them. The department seized sixty-one vehicles that had tampered Vehicle Identification Numbers. Unique Performance declared bankruptcy a week later.[6]
Since 2012, Farmers Branch together with the cities of Addison, Carrollton, and Coppell has jointly operated the NorTex Metro SWAT unit.[7][8]
In March 2013, an off-duty police officer, Ken Johnson, shot two boys who were breaking into his car. He chased the two in his car, crashing into theirs and then fired eighteen shots, killing one of the two. In 2018, he was found guilty of murder and sentenced to ten years in confinement. The incident was captured on video not controlled by the police.[9]
In June 2019, one of the department's officers, Michael Dunn, was indicted for murder after he killed an unarmed man who was driving a stolen truck. The shooting was caught on video not controlled by the police.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Letter from the Chief". City of Framers Branch. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
- ^ "Police Services". City of Farmers Branch. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- ^ "Detention Services". City of Farmers Branch. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- ^ "Farmers Branch Police Jail". Inmate Aid. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- ^ "Officer Lowell Clayton Tribble". Officer Down Memorial page. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- ^ Merritt Johnson. "Unique Performance raided by local police" "Autoblog.com", November 6, 2007
- ^ "S.W.A.T." City of Farmers Branch. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- ^ Stiffman, Eden. "Four Dallas-area cities form joint SWAT team". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- ^ "Former Farmers Branch Officer Sentenced to 10 Years in Murder Conviction". NBCDFW.COM. 9 January 2018. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- ^ "Grand jury indicts Farmers Branch officer for murder". Fox4.com. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2019.