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The Burbank Police Department

5650 W. 75th Place Burbank, IL 60459

Phone (708) 924-7300 Fax (708)-728-0412

Founded in 1982, the Burbank Police Department has grown to a professionally trained 53 member force. Currently, qualifications for our entry level officers include a minimum of two years of college or military service. Supervisors are required to attend advanced training from the Police Institute at Northwestern University or the FBI National Academy.
 

Forty additional civilian support personnel include crossing guards, clerical staff, and community service officers. Full-time sworn officers include; four D.A.R.E. instructors (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) that teach in our grammar schools, two school resource officers who are active at Reavis High School and Liberty Jr. High, 2 K-9s (Kazan & Demi) and their handlers, six very fluent language translators (Polish, Spanish, and Arabic), a highly-trained emergency response team, and a host of other specially trained officers.

The sharing of information is critical to efficient police/community relations. Our goal is the reduction of crime and, ultimately, the improvement of the quality of life in our community.

The Uniform Crime Reports from 2003 to 2006 indicate that Index crimes were down 6.12% in Burbank over the 3 years. (Index crimes include murder, criminal sexual assault, aggravated assault/battery, robbery, burglary, theft, arson and auto theft). Working together with our citizens and the business community we hope to lower these numbers even further.

This site was designed to provide residents with a variety of links to timely information regarding current events in the City of Burbank. The Police Blotter is our most popular link. It provides up-to-date information about crimes committed, arrests made and persons to be on the look-out for in our area. We also provide links to popular media outlets, law enforcement research, crime prevention, tips for the police, weather, traffic, driving directions, local school information/closings, and registered sex offenders.

www.vinelink.com

VINELink is the online version of VINE (Victim Information and Notification Everyday), the National Victim Notification Network. This service allows crime victims to obtain timely and reliable information about criminal cases and the custody status of offenders 24 hours a day. Victims and other concerned citizens can also register to be notified by phone, email or TTY device when an offender's custody status changes. Users can also register through their participating state or county toll-free number.