Treasure Island Police Department - About Us
Tim Casey, Police Chief
180 108th Avenue
727-547-4595 Fax 727-547-4597


The Treasure Island Police Department is a progressive and professional agency serving a pleasant beach community in Pinellas County, Florida, just west of St. Petersburg. There are presently 20 sworn officers plus communications and support sections. We are a small city of about 7,500 full time residents. The population grows to about 20,000 in tourist season. While the city is small and located on a gulf coast barrier island, we are part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg metropolitan area.

The Treasure Island Police Department exists to protect the rights, safety and property of people in Treasure Island. Police responsibilities include enforcing local, state and federal laws; maintaining peace and order; and assisting
people in unusually pressing situations that could lead to personal injury or damage to property. Treasure Island officers who are state certified as crime prevention practitioners also provide home security surveys on request.

The department protects the city with regular patrols, through the special service patrols and by directed patrols which are specific assignments to areas needing special attention at any one time. In consideration of our 3.5 mile beach front, we have converted our patrol fleet to 4-wheel drive vehicles allowing our officers to patrol or respond to any section of the beach as needed.

Community policing is a way of life here. Treasure Island enjoys the benefits of having its own police department. These benefits include a direct personal familiarity between department personnel and residents; a professional familiarity with city associations, clubs and the personality of the community; and a high quality and closeness of service stemming from the department's local presence and management.

Your police department provides a 24-hour police communication center. When you call for service, whether it be routine or an emergency, you are speaking with a communications professional in Treasure Island. Recognizing the unique challenge of providing police presence on 3.5 miles of beach terrain, we have converted our patrol fleet to all four-wheel drive vehicles. First and foremost this allows every officer on duty to patrol our beach front and secondly, it increases officer safety in that every on-duty officer can reach any point on the beach when needed.

We deploy all-terrain vehicles for special events on the beach and to supplement patrol activity during heavy beach congestion. We patrol our inter-coastal and gulf waters with a twin engine vessel uniquely equipped to work in harmony with Treasure Island paramedics for accidental or medical emergencies at sea.

In conjunction with fundamental law enforcement services Treasure Island maintains a police canine, a detective division, a property/evidence section and provides residential and commercial crime prevention services. We are committed and prepared to serve our 7,500 permanent residents as well as the 12,000 residents who join our community during seasonal periods.

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