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Welcome to the Beaumont Police Department Website.  Beaumont is located in Southeast Texas, approximately 90 miles east of Houston, Texas.  It is a city with a residential population of approximately 114,000 citizens which swells tremendously during the working hours.  The Beaumont Police Department provides protection to approximately 80 square miles and currently employs 255 sworn police officers and 54 civilians.

This website offers the visitor an abundance of information about the Beaumont Police Department and the City of Beaumont. If you are interested in a law enforcement or telecommunicator career, please check out our employment information.  The City of Beaumont accepts applications for police officers on an ongoing basis from certified peace officers in the State of Texas; and/or college graduates with a four-year degree from an accredited college or university ;and/or veterans recently (within 48 months) honorably discharged from the military with at least 60 college hours.  Applicants who are selected for employment and are not currently licensed as a Texas peace officer will be designated as a civilian employee and enrolled in the regional police academy.  An employment application for both police officer and civilian telecommunicator is available via this website and all applicants are encouraged to use the online form.  For employment questions not answered on this website at either the employment information page or the freqently asked questions page, please e-mail Sue Dismukes with the Human Resources Department.

Visit the Frequently Asked Questions page for answers to such questions as how to get a copy of a police report or who to call for an alarm permit.  If your question is not there, please e-mail us so we can respond.  We have added the opportunity for citizens to file a police report directly from the website if the offense reported meets certain criteria.  And, if you are interested in the Citizen's Police Academy or the Citizens On Patrol Program, you can get an application online.  We welcome feedback so that we can constantly improve this website.

If you like to listen to a police radio, click on the icon to the right to listen to live police dispatch sponsored by IH2000, Carson Medical Equipment and the Beaumont Police Department.

If you cannot find what you are looking for, please try our search engine.

The Beaumont Police Department employees hope you find the information within this website both informative and helpful.  Please feel free to contact the department with your comments and suggestions.

This website recently was named a 2000 Golden Fingerprint Award winner by Sirchie Finger Print Laboratories.  It is only one of a 142 law enforcement websites receiving this award.

 


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Last updated September 20, 2001.

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