Daytona Beach Police Department
| Daytona Beach Police Department | |
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| Abbreviation | DBPD |
DBPD police cruiser
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| Agency overview | |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
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| Headquarters | 129 Valor Blvd. |
| Officers | 241 |
| Agency executive | Chief Craig Capri |
| Facilities | |
| Stations | 3 |
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| * Divisional agency: Sub division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Daytona Beach Police Department (DBPD) is the primary law enforcement agency for Daytona Beach, Florida. There are 241 sworn full-time police officers, 105 sworn part-time officers and 81 civilians on the force which is headed by Craig Capri who serves as the Chief.
The main Police headquarters is located at 129 Valor Blvd. In January 2009, the former location at 990 Orange Ave was closed due to age (built in 1957 with additions in 1964 and 1971,and renovations in 1978) and its small size. Shortly after closing, in May 2009, the old headquarters was flooded along with large areas of the city and after historic rains inundated Daytona. There is a DBPD substation located at the corner of Harvey and Wild Olive avenues on the "beachside" (barrier island portion of Daytona Beach).
The Scumbag Eradication Team: Not in our Town!" are the words printed upon a T-shirt used to raise money for the Daytona Beach Police Explorers Unit 22, a program which helps to mentor teenagers age 14 - 19, interested in a career in law enforcement.
The Police Explorers program is run by Learning for Life (LFL), a United States school and work-site based program that is a subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America.
The T-shirts feature the words "Scumbag Eradication Team", and "Not In Our Town," with a caricature of DBPD Mike Chitwood (who served 17 years with the Philadelphia Police Department) and a toilet full of what are assumed to be "scumbags". According to the DBPD website:
"The purpose of the Daytona Beach Police Explorers Unit 22 is to assist the development of character in young people."
While some have questioned the propriety of selling T-shirts to children with the word "scumbag" on it, Chief Chitwood has no qualms, according to Chitwood:
"If somebody doesn't like the fact that I call them a scumbag, too bad,".
Chitwood believes that the individuals he characterizes as "scumbags" not only erode the quality of life in Daytona Beach but they also ruin 'fabric'.
It's the scumbags like this that erode the quality of life and the fabric (sic) that we have here.
The T-shirt and its logo have been cited in a $100,000 police brutality case filed by attorney Sam Masters, who claims the DBPD condones violent behavior. His client suffered broken ribs and a broken eye socket during an arrest. Chief Chitwood welcomed the lawsuit:
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