Community Service Officers

Community Service Officers play an integral part of Albany Police Department’s ability to meet our community’s needs. Community Service Officers are uniformed, civilian professionals dedicated to responding to specific non-emergent calls for service for patrol.

Duties Community Service Officers routinely perform include:

• Abandoned automobiles
• Albany Municipal Code enforcement specific to junk and trash violations
• Animal Control
• Assist Police Officers with large scale evidence collection
• Community events such as parades
• Found property collection (property abandoned by the owner)
• IAP – Major Incident After-Care (After a major incident we send a team into the “line of sight” neighborhood and inform neighbors of the incident and answer questions concerning quality of life issues impacting their neighborhoods)
• Investigate crimes such as theft from a motor vehicle, graffiti, and vandalism
• Parking complaints (downtown parking is handled separately by the Albany Downtown Association's Parkwise program)
• Sex offender registrations
• Subpoena service for Albany Municipal Court
• Traffic control around crash sites and during events held in the city
• Radar trailer deployments

Community Outreach Program Coordinator

The Albany Police Department currently has one Community Outreach Program Coordinator committed to educating community members on how to keep from becoming crime victims as well as identifying trends and problem areas to determine long term solutions.

A few programs the Community Outreach Program Coordinator coordinates include:

• Crime prevention presentations
• Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)
• Safe and Secure Seniors Independent (safety surveys, installation of deadbolts, view holes, and locks)
• Neighborhood Watch
• National Night Out
• Community Police Academy
• Burglary call-back program
• Safety Camp (page is updated in the Spring for that Summer's program) 
• Graffiti abatement
• Volunteer program
• Ride-along program
• Manage social media

Contact Lieutenant Buck Pearce at 541-917-3209 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

School Resource Officers

Two sworn Police Officers are assigned to the Community Resource Unit to work in the Albany schools.

The primary function of the officers is to serve as a resource to the school administration and the student body, address crime in the schools, and to create a safe and secure learning environment. 

These officers are also trained to teach school safety classes for all ages.

During the summer months, officers may be deployed using police bicycles during their normal course of duty. Specific bicycle assignments take advantage of the benefits of using a bicycle on patrol such as summer concerts or special community events.

Preventing Bicycle Theft

Albany has a significant bike theft problem. Bikes are valuable, portable and easy to resell, making them attractive to thieves. By taking some precautions, you can lower the odds that you’ll be the victim of a stolen bike.

• Lock your bike at all times, no matter how short of time you will be leaving it.  Make sure the lock is attached to the frame of the bicycle.  Invest in a solid U-bolt style lock.  You should expect to pay $40 or more for a quality lock.  Cheap ones can be easily defeated.  Some U-locks come with insurance that will pay you if the lock is overcome and the bike is stolen.  You can add additional locks to secure wheels and other parts. The best message…”Buy a cheap bike and an expensive lock!”
• If possible, keep your bicycle indoors when not in use. If you must park it outside, lock it to a secure object and in a well-lit, high traffic area.  
• If your bike is stolen, report it as soon as possible.

Register Your Bike

Registering your bike records detailed information about your bicycle in case your bicycle is later stolen.  This information will be essential in recovering your bicycle and returning it to you.  

Tips for Bicycle Safety

The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) provides extensive information regarding bicycle safety and regulations.  ODOT Bicycle Safety

Bike Helmets

ORS 814.485 Failure to wear protective headgear

(1) A person commits the offense of failure of a bicycle operator or rider to wear protective headgear if the person is under 16 years of age, operates or rides on a bicycle on a highway or premises open to the public and is not wearing protective headgear of a type approved under ORS 815.052.

(2) The offense described in this section, failure of a bicycle operator or rider to wear protective headgear, is a traffic infraction punishable by a maximum fine of $72.00.

ORS 814.488 Citations; exemption from requirement to pay fine

(1) If a child in violation of ORS 814.485 is 11 years of age or younger, any citation issued shall be issued to the parent, legal guardian or person with legal responsibility for the safety and welfare of the child for violation of ORS 814.486, rather than to the child for violation of ORS 814.485.

(2) If a child in violation of ORS 814.485 to 814.486 is at least 12 years of age and is under 16 years of age, a citation may be issued to the child for violation of ORS 814.485 or to the parent, legal guardian or person with legal responsibility for the safety and welfare of the child for violation ORS 814.486, but not to both.