Orange Beach Police Department

Streets, sand and water all fall to the Orange Beach Police Department in Baldwin County, Alabama. Day and night patrol shifts answer calls across the city and its police jurisdiction, handle traffic enforcement, crash investigation, DUI enforcement and home and business security checks, and enforce city ordinances and state law, while school resource officers work with the city's elementary, middle and high schools. A Marine Division enforces ordinances across the bayous, coves, estuaries and inland bays and along the Gulf shoreline, and beach enforcement officers apply state law and city rules on the sand. Investigators take felonies such as rape, robbery, burglary, fraud and identity theft, plus serious misdemeanors like domestic violence, and narcotics investigators also handle liquor law violations; others are assigned to the county sheriff's drug task force in Baldwin County, a Homeland Security Investigations task force, the FBI's JCARD child abduction team and the county Major Crimes Unit. An Intelligence Division analyzes crime patterns and runs Project Shield, a public-private camera partnership that began in Mobile. Dispatchers work through a computer-aided dispatch system, and the Support Services Division operates the city jail for misdemeanor prisoners, with on-site and video visitation, alongside training, procurement and animal control.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 2023), Orange Beach city, AL has an estimated population of 8,244.