Dublin Police Department

Called about a noise complaint on our neighbors. Person that picked up was very rude and the cops never showed up, not surprised !

Dublin police are most kindest officers I have ever encountered. People complain about cops, but guess what? When you need help, they arrive within minutes and very professional, helpful and down to earth. I have the utmost respect for our Dublin officers. I really appreciate all that they do for the community.

I was given a ticket for yielding, not fully stopping, at a stop sign near the Dublin BART station on my pedal bicycle. The officer who gave me the ticket had been cherry picking around the Dublin BART station in the mornings for multiple weeks before and after my incidence. During our interaction, the police officer was demeaning. He laughed at me when I said that I did not know that you needed to make a full stop on a bicycle (I’d only been biking in California for about a month at this point), and at the end he compared me getting killed by a car to a pile of paperwork. Less than a week later, I saw a man biking chaotically near an intersection in Dublin and a female police officer witnessed this and did nothing more than shout out her car window to the man. No ticket was issued. This man was biking without a helmet, going the wrong way, and ignoring traffic lights. My conclusions from these two incidents is that there is either an utter lack of consistency in police officering in Dublin, CA or these police officers racially and economically profile people. Someone who they think looks like they can afford the ticket gets the ticket. A few weeks after these incidences, I was biking to BART and approached two other Dublin police officers leaving an apartment building when the aforementioned police officer turned on his siren to chase down a car entering the BART parking lot. The two police officers leaving the apartment building were laughing to each other and one officer commented that that area was good for business in the morning. I have yet to see a single incidence of decent police officering in Dublin, CA. These police officers seem to think that this whole job is a joke, they clearly feel that they are above the law and can break laws at will (turning on lights just to get through intersections, ignoring posted speed limits, etc), and they are highly incompetent. I was given misleading information from my police officer about needing to take traffic school and he misspelled my address on my ticket, which was clearly typed on my driver’s license, such that my official paperwork never arrived in the mail. If you have the luxury of choosing to live elsewhere, I highly recommend it. I’ve lived in 5 states and these are the worst police officers I’ve ever seen.

Officer Messenger (spelling might be incorrect) is one of the worst officer that we had encountered with. Our neighbor was having a great time partying hard into the wee hours. We called Dublin dispatcher to have an officer out here to stop the loud music. Officer Messenger (He is bald, young and semi-​short) knocked on my door after talking to the neighbor and started yelling at me for making him drive all the way to this neighborhood just to stop the music. He said that’s something I could have done myself. WTF? There is a reason why I called your service, or lack of. I didn’t want to deal with the drugs, music and all the low lives.
Officer Messenger must have the Napoleon syndrome. He is really good at scolding and horrible at protecting.

I have lived in Dublin 11 years and lately it feels like this town is being taken over by the Gestapo.
I’ve had police show up for my baby crying, the sheriff for my dog barking. I’ve been profiled, pulled over, and harassed, without receiving one ticket. My 5-​year old son was taken out of the car and questioned about his car seat. They send out officer Alizio to patrol the schools every morning, and all he does is go after the parents.
Some of the officers are very cool guys and they all deserve credit for keeping Dublin gang free and a nice place to live. But chief McCarthy, please tell your hardcore officers to take it easy on the GOOD people in town that you are protecting and serving. It seems the department is making a lot of money off the minor infractions given to the parents in this community every day.

To all Sheriff’s Deputies and Officers at the Dublin Sports Grounds July 4, 2013,
I would like to commend you all and thank you for the opportunity to light fireworks in the parking lot July 4^th. The entire event was very well supervised and the officers present were very friendly and helpful, intervening as needed and allowing all to have an enjoyable Independence Day celebration.
As more and more jurisdictions are banning these types of activities due to the inherent risks involved, it is nice to see that Dublin and Alameda County have found a way to allow citizens to express their patriotism and also to support worthwhile non-​profit associations in a safe and enjoyable way.
My son and I joined many other families for an unforgettable evening. Thank you for providing the excellent personnel and resources for a true American holiday.

«to serve and protect,» more like we are short staffed call back tomorrow and file a report! WTF?!
I had to call them when a truck hit my car on the side where my toddler was sitting (yes with my toddler in the car). The phone operator simple said «oh sorry that happened, but we are short staffed and can’t send someone» «call back on Monday to file a report.» What a joke of a police station this is! And why do I pay taxes?
This is my tip don’t bother calling because they won’t respond! Also read the current reviews on Unilocal,the old ones are out dated.

Let first start that by saying that I completely appreciate and recognize the stress of being a peace officer. I have family members that are police officers in other areas and functions that perhaps are a bit more challenging than here in Dublin,
I am sure that dealing with people and crime, etc everyday is dangerous and stressful. Thank you for your service. I love to see you around our neighborhood.
OK, now that I got that out of the way. IT IS UNACCEPTABLE to fail to do your job of protecting citizens!!! I don’t want to go into many details here but OFFICERS! you are paid to serve and protect, that is your job.
Today my family was endangered by the lack of attention of 4 police officers. Nothing happened other than being stopped, screamed at, etc. which I am still trying to understand how somebody can be so unprofessional.
However something could had happen. Do your job and if you are conducting an investigation. Block the road, put signs, put a cone, put a car or whatever you guys need to do before a family with a small baby gets in the middle of your «scene»
It is not the citizen fault, we don’t carry police radios, etc. Thank you for blocking the street after me… at least nobody else got in the middle.
Now, to the female officer that completely freaked out on us. I understand you are stressed, overworked, and maybe even wishing to get a better job. YOU NEED TO CONTROL YOURSELF, this is not IRAQ, this is Dublin Ranch. Go get a vacation, spa, or whatever you like. It is not worth it to live this way.
For the record I am still struggling with filing a complaint…
To the rest of Dublin Officers and Alameda Sheriff etc… If you read this, please be safe out there. We appreciate your service.

Unfortunately I had to call them once, due to a neighbor having a raging party, including him standing outside yelling at his friends, «Dudes, shut up, you’ll wake up the neighbors,» and his friends hooting and hollering with glee. I was living in a trilevel then, and I could hear the music and partying on every floor, and they woke up me, husband and dog on the 2^nd floor, and guest on the 3^rd floor. Around 3am we finally had it and called the police, as we didn’t want to confront drunk assholes. The police arrived by 3:10 am, chewed out the drunks, and told them to go to bed and stop being idiots. We finally were able to get back to sleep around 4am.
When we had an identity theft situation (our federal and state tax returns), they were mostly helpful in getting the report and paperwork done, although they did make a few mistakes. The particular officer my husband worked with seemed a little put out that he had to deal with something this stupid, but had we not done the report we would have been screwed when in the 11^th hour of getting our mortgage the fraudulent tax return came up, and by supplying the copy of the police report we were able to proceed with escrow and closing.
They also got called to the dog park I went to, due to stupid arguments, people getting upset that dogs barked at them as they walked around the park, and they always handled these idiotic calls with grace.
Overall, I’m happy with their service and appreciated their presence in the community.

They seem to just be here in Dublin to give tickets all day, I had a bike stolen from me and knew where it was and they didn’t want to do anything about it because it wasn’t valuable enough:(. They do come when you call them about rowdy neighbors though, which is more than I can say about other PDs. Basically Dublin is pretty safe so they try to make money by giving nit picky tickets. Lots of speed traps on Dublin blvd, and San Ramon rd here. Even though I gripe about this though I do realize they have a job to do and it is a risky thankless career. Everyone loves firemen, but cops not so much. Oh well, be safe and chill out on the speed traps please.

The people that work in the office and a bunch of idiots. They are so rude and unprofessional. It’s amazing! As a respected business owner of the community I have watched them treat people do rude. I have filed a police report for check fraud over 4 months ago and I have heard nothing from the detective who was suppose to contact me. I have waited forever in the waiting room for the dumb girl in the office to look it up. They have no other people to help yet they take forever to do anything.

This department is so professional and quick! Within 15 minutes an officer was at my door to advise me on legal issues even though it was a civil issue. Also, a few months ago my toddler picked up a cigarette butt that kids from the local high school were leaving around on our street during lunch time. I called to ask for them to shoo them back to school and an officer was here within minutes. Thank you Dublin PD!

Chief Casey Nice runs a nice ship. The Dublin Police Rocks.

Hilarious. Two other reviewers gave one star reviews — one for doing something illegal, for which he got a ticket. Another from someone who showed up while the administrative office was closed and was upset the officers on duty would not leave patrol to come help with a form?
I’d like to say as a Dublin resident I’ve had nothing but positive interactions with the police department — and that includes being written up for a stop-​sign violation. That’s right, Greg D., I got a ticket for doing something illegal and I’m still giving 5 stars…

Did you know it’s illegal to wear earbuds while driving? Yes it is.
When coming up over the bridge I was a little surprised when the cop that was passing me, looked at me, slowed down and got behind me and turned on his lights. I wasn’t speeding or anything, the only thing being illegal was my ’63 bug lowered in the Cal look. That always gives a cop an excuse.
The dude walks up to my car just exuding dickishness, ticketbook in hand. I figured it would just be another of dozens of «fix-​it» tickets for my modified suspention where I would have to raise the front end, get the ticket signed off and then just lower it back down, something I have alreayd had to do like 20 times, LOL! But no, when I asked him why he pulled me over he said it was illegal to wear headphones while driving. I showed him my iPod earbuds, and how on earth he could see me wearing them I still wonder. I explained that they are not headphones and that even if they were I didn’t know of that law. Didn’t matter, he gave me a ticket anyway. What an ass!

Two occasions that proved Dublin police officers are too focused on polishing their vehicle and wandering around, slacking off, instead of doing their job.
Dublin police station was closed at night when I had to pick up a form from them to recover my stolen car. It was incredibly hard to find a parking there since they set it up like a maze. They had this phone outside the main entrance that calls to the dispatch office in case the office was closed. The fishy part was during the phone call, the dispatch told me that all the police officers were busy at the time and it’d take them 25 minutes to come service me. Mind you, Dublin isn’t crime ridden and there’s no excuse to say all the Dublin police are too busy to help someone at the station. I had my car stolen before at night in one of the worst parts of San Francisco and I was able to get helped by an officer in less a few minutes.
So after waiting for several minutes, I saw a police officer on a motorcycle pulled up to a police garage, and I thought he was the officer that the dispatch had sent over to the station, so I tried to get his attention. Unprofessionally, and like a typical lazy police, he just polished his motorcycle, ignored me and shut the garage door. So I called the dispatch again and she told me to go next morning in an unprofessional way.
Alameda Country police dispatch and Dublin police have some of the most incompetent employees ever.