Cottage Grove Police Department

About

Welcome to official Cottage Grove Police Department Facebook page. Click "About" below for contact and basic information about our department.

Story

Our page is meant to provide the viewer an opportunity to learn about the department, increase their level of involvement with us, affords us an excellent opportunity to further open the lines of communications and strengthen our partnerships. We ask you take a few minutes to view our postings. As always, feel free to send us your feedback.

The Cottage Grove Police Department was established in December 1982 by an intergovernmental agreement to jointly serve the Village and Town of Cottage Grove.

The members of the Cottage Police Department are dedicated to establishing and developing strong community partnerships, as well as, providing professional service to all in our community. We are an organization that seeks to enhance the quality of life of our community by actively seeking opportunities to work with our community partners in fighting crime and solving identified problems. Furthermore, we seek to prevent crime, reduce the fear of crime and improve the quality of life in our neighborhoods through proactive programming.

The department consists of a Chief, detective, 9 police officers, a full-time administrative services manager, and 2 part-time administrative assistants. On March 26, 2013 the Cottage Grove Law Enforcement Committee approved the implementation of a police canine program. In October 2013 Larz was sworn in as the department's first certified police canine.

January 1, 2015 the Cottage Grove Police Department became a village only police department.

Mission

We the members of the Cottage Grove Police Department are dedicated to keeping our community safe and to enhancing its quality of life through partnership and professional service.