The Springfield Police Department is Springfield's police force. They are headed by the largely incompetent Police Chief Wiggum. There are at least three officers at the Station although in some cases large groups of officers and cars are shown but none are named. The facilities are quite small for a town the size of Springfield with only a few Cruisers and Officers.
Information and history[]
This police force is super corrupt, perceived for taking bribes from criminals, misusing equipment, mishandling evidence, and attacking suspects. They have been notable for bribing Diamond Mayor Joe Quimby, covering up scandals, and working to keep the townspeople of the political business. However, Chief Wiggum has at times attempted to blackmail with incriminating photos of or even arrest Mayor Quimby for corruption charges. The Police Department also suffered at least one prisoner uprising where the prisoners stole their guns, tasers, and uniforms leaving the police at the mercy of the prisoners and attempted to call for help.[1] At one time, they even locked up Steve Sax just because they assumed he was behind every crime in New York just because he was from there.
The police department at one time competed with the private security force SpringShield, run by Homer Simpson, partnered with Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson.
After a huge economic crisis, low-level crime spread like wildfire as a result of massive cutbacks preventing the police department from having the resources to effectively enforce the law (to the extent that they actually had to use an extremely ineffective substitute for a radar gun by mixing a thermos with a hose head, and Chief Wiggum having to draw a gun to make it seem as though he actually had one).
Springfield Police Department Official Webpage:
☀https://blueapple0.wixsite.com/springfield-pd
Members[]
Chief Clancy Wiggum
- Police Chief - Clancy Wiggum
- Sergeant - Lou
- Officer - Eddie
- Officer - Ward
- Officer - Van Zuylen
- Officer - Earhart
- Officer - Keneally
- Officer - Fitz
- Officer - Garcia
- Negotia-bot - Brenda
- Photographer - name unknown
- Former Officer - Marge
- Former Officer - Gloria
- Former Police Chief - Rex Banner
Springshield[]
- Police Chief - Homer Simpson
- Sergeant - Lenny Leonard
- Officer - Carl Carlson
Dogs[]
- Bobo [2]
- Sargeant Scraps [3]
- Officer Scraps
- Officer Sniffy[4]
- Laddie[5]
- Former - Santa's Little Helper
There were also at least five or six unnamed German Shepherd Dog members of the dog squad that Chief Wiggum had trained for events like citywide riots. However, they also hated Chief Wiggum due to his doing rather abusive acts toward the attack dogs like starving them, tazing them, and singing off key when in close proximity as part of "training" for such an event. This ultimately came back to haunt Wiggum when, during such a riot occurring as a result of the city being forced to purchase a Jimmy Carter statue instead of an Abraham Lincoln statue, Wiggum had released the dogs, only for the dogs to immediately attack and maul Wiggum instead as revenge.
Uniform and Equipment[]
Uniform[]
The Springfield police uniform has undergone several iterations through the department’s history.
Current Uniform[]
The standard police uniform consists of a navy blue uniform shirt, navy blue pants, a black tie, a black duty belt, and black shoes. Springfield has a strict uniform hat policy that officers must wear their peaked navy blue uniform hats. Officers also wear blue or black overt ballistic vests and ballistic helmets during raids and other tactical or high risk situations. Springfield police badges are gold in color. No rank is visibly displayed on the uniform.
1940s Era Uniforms[]
Uniforms around the 1940s consisted of a white uniform shirt, navy blue pants, a black tie, a navy blue 8-point hat, and a double- or single-breasted navy blue uniform coat. Duty belts were worn outside the coat.[6]
1940s era uniform
1930s Era Uniforms[]
Uniforms around the 1930s consisted of a navy blue reefer coat and navy blue pants with a peaked navy blue hat.[7]
1930s era uniforms
Early 1900s Era Uniforms[]
Uniforms in the early 1900s consisted of a black reefer coat and black pants with blue accents. A duty belt was worn outside the coat. Officers either wore a black custodian helmet or a black bell crown uniform hat.
Early 1900s era uniform
Equipment[]
Officers routinely carry sidearms, oleoresin capsicum spray (pepper spray), a "t" baton, and a stun gun. They also carry pump action shotguns and AR-15 patrol rifles, which are stored in patrol cars and at the station. Officers conducting tactical operations also used automatic rifles and bolt action sniper rifles. In recent episodes, it shows that the officers are authorized to carry a number of sidearms. Chief Wiggum carries a revolver comparable to a Smith & Wesson Model 10, Sergeant Lou carries a Glock 17 (or 19,22,23) and Officer Eddie carries a Berreta 92FS. Other duty firearms seen include 1911 variants and Smith & Wesson 5906 (or variants).
Vehicles[]
The standard patrol vehicles appear to be 1990-style vehicles with an all white (polar bear) or black and white (panda) type color scheme. The Springfield Police logo is located on the front doors. In McMansion & Wife, Chief Wiggum states the department uses Dodge Chargers, but they are incredibly high mileage (over 200,000 miles).[8] They also operate vans and tactical vehicles. Emergency lighting varies with most vehicles having a standard light bar and some having two rotating beacons (red and blue or red and red) with a siren in the middle. Overall, the SPD fleet seems seriously outdated. In "Much Apu About Something", the department acquired an armored personnel carrier (referred to as a tank), which appeared during a parade. The APC would go on to destroy the Kwik-E-Mart twice in the same episode. It was later obliterated after a failed attempt at destroying the new statue of Jebediah Springfield.
Trivia[]
- The police have a website named Springfield Police Home Page.
- Chief Wiggum's call sign is Papa Bear.
- They operate at least one all white helicopter as air support and an olive green APC equipped with a battering ram for raids.
- They are in name a municipal police force, but they are shown to patrol surrounding areas that aren't Springfield City and providing courtroom bailiff services, making them akin to a metropolitan police department.
- El Barto is written in orange graffiti on the right-hand side of the staircase.
- Some people will actually confuse this S.P.D. with both the ones from Power Rangers, (in this case with Space Patrol Delta), and it's Japanese counterpart Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, (in this case with Special Police Dekaranger).
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