Who is my beat officer?
In December of 2005, our Police Department embarked on the task of stating our goals for serving the citizens of North Richland Hills. To accomplish this, we conducted meetings and surveyed our employees who relayed their feelings on how we should police our community. After several months of thoughtful work, our Department succeeded by producing a new Vision, Mission, and Philosophy Statement expressing the feelings of our employees for the way we approach our duty of serving our community.
Our mission is to work in partnership with our citizens to maintain a safe, peaceful community by providing excellence in all police services dedicated to the highest standards of ethics and integrity while preserving and protecting life and property. With this being our mission, the Patrol Division implemented a new program titled the "Beat Management Program" where the same Patrol Officers works the same beat every day. This program was started as furthering our commitment by our police officers to best serve our community while also forming a partnership with our citizens.
The City of North Richland Hills, for police patrol purposes, is divided into seven separate geographical areas known as beats. Our new program started in August of 2006 by having our patrol officers select their own beat and working in it everyday. We believe that when the same Police Officers work in the same area of town it will assist them in forming closer bonds to the citizens they serve. Prior to us starting the Beat Management Program, our officers rotated beats so our officers were moving to different areas of town everyday. Basically, our new program narrows the officer's scope from the whole city to a smaller more manageable section of town.
While our officers manage their beats on a daily basis, they are truly able to get to know the people that reside and work in their assigned area. Being in the same part of town everyday also helps the officer to better understand the problems associated with his individual beat. The main emphasis of this program is in the ability of our Patrol Officers to understand the particular issues that exist in their assigned area while empowering them to bring the resources needed to bear on problems.
We encourage our citizens to assist us by getting to know their individual beat officers as well as to open communications with them. When your beat officers learn of problems or issues, they can assist you or put you in contact the proper people or agency needed to help. If you would like to talk to your beat officer, please contact them in person or e-mail them with any questions or concerns you may have. Click this link to the Beat Map.
For the area you are interested in, click inside the marked "Beat" to send an email to that officer.
| Days | Evenings | Nights | |
| District 1 | R. White #180 | L. Walden #647 | J. Richerson #682 |
| District 2 | J. Gaworski #232 | G. Cespedes #662 | J. DeArmond #641 |
| District 3 | R. Dena #262 | P. Merrill #648 | H. Ratliff #447 |
| District 4 | D. Bohanon #684 | S. Martin #667 | A. Smead #664 |
| District 5 | J. Harding #548 | J. Garcia #681 | D. Vo #685 |
| District 6 | S. Collins #686 | T. Peck #654 | R. McEachran #675 |
| District 7 | D. Drake #407 | K. Luff #642 | E. Vidal #668 |
