Find Your Beat Officer Here

Have you been wondering just who your Woodstock Police Department beat officer? Until this week’s Woodstock Independent was published, about all we knew was there were three officers assigned to a beat and, if you wanted to reach the night officer, you had to email all three.

For the past two years I have suggested to the P.D. that it put beat information on its website, so that residents could quickly identify the officer they wished to contact. Thanks to Sue Murray, I was able to create the following grid. If you want to email an officer, address your email to the officer's initial of his first name and his last name, followed by @woodstockil.gov Ex. if you are sending an email to Officer Shane Marshall, address it to smarshall@woodstockil.gov

-----------8AM-4PM ----4:00PM-12:00AM-----Midnight-8AM
Beat 21---SMarshall----------JRapacz-----------MGustis
Beat 22---JODoherty---------ASchraw----------MHarmon
Beat 23---FEiselstein---------DDempsey--------DHenry
Beat 24---GKopulos------ ---RBranum----------BMuehlfelt

If you’d like all three officers on your beat to be aware of a situation, put all three email addresses in the “To:” field, separated by commas. No need to send three separate emails.

Do you know in what beat you live?

From the corner of West South Street and South Madison Street, the beats are, generally,
Beat 21, Northeast quadrant
Beat 22, Northwest quadrant
Beat 23, Southwest quadrant
Beat 24, Southeast quadrant

I say “generally” because the exact quadrants need to be viewed on a map. Check the Woodstock City Scene, come to a Coffee with the Chief, flag down an officer in your area or telephone the Woodstock Police Department at 815.338.2131

Remember to lock your cars. Almost all theft-from-auto calls involved cars that were unlocked.

And close your garage doors.