Police Services

Request an Accident Report

Request in person:

Copies of accident reports can be obtained from the Records Department during business hours, Monday through Friday. Copies of accident reports are $5.00 each (cash is an acceptable forms of payment).

Request online:

The Antioch Police Department has entered into an agreement with CRASHDOCS to provide traffic accident reports online. Reports are accessible 24 hours a day. All convenience fees are added to the cost of the report and are directly credited to CRASHDOCS.

CRASHDOCS – Antioch Police Accident Reports

PLEASE NOTE: Reports typically require two (2) business days to complete. Please wait at least 48 hours before submitting a duplicate request.

Request a Police Report

Freedom of Information Act Request

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a state statute that provides the public the right to access government documents and records. FOIA is designed to ensure that the public has access to information about their government and its decision-making process. The law provides that a person can ask a public body for a copy of its records on a specific subject and the public body must provide those records, unless there is an exemption in the statute that protects those records from disclosure (for example: records containing information concerning trade secrets or personal privacy).

Freedom of Information Act Request Form

https://www.antioch.il.gov/citizen-action-line/#form/13761

Vacation House Watch

The Antioch Police Department provides house watch services for when you are on vacation. In order to receive this service, please fill out House-Vacation-Watch form and return it to the Records Department or email apdrecords@antioch.il.gov

If you have any questions or need to amend a submitted request, please call the Records Department at 847-395-8585

Keyholder Updates

Explorer Post

The Antioch Police Explorer Post is an interactive program co-sponsored by the Boy Scouts of America designed for young men and women between the ages of 14 and 21.

The program teaches the basics of Law Enforcement to those interested in a future career in the Law Enforcement field and allows them to give back to the community by using some of their skills at different events in the Village such as assisting with traffic control during parades and attending Shop with a Cop.

Explorer Post Members regularly perform ride-alongs with various Officers, which further enhances their understanding of Law Enforcement. Many Law Enforcement topics are covered in the program including: traffic stops, traffic accidents, building searches, SWAT tactics, drill & ceremony, evidence collection, and control tactics.

Explorer Post meetings are held every Thursday at 7pm and further training is held on various dates throughout the year.

For further information on the Explorer Post, please contact Post Advisor Commander Garcia at 847-395-8585 or ngarcia@antioch.il.gov

Citizen Police Academy

Meet and interact on a personal level with members of the Antioch Police Department by participating in the Citizen Police Academy. Classes are held Wednesday evenings from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and will run for 10 weeks. Participants will experience many facets of law enforcement with class topics that are both interesting and informative covering patrol, investigations, support services and training. The C.P.A. is a 10 week program designed to open the lines of communication between the Antioch Police Department and the community. For additional information, contact Commander Nick Garcia NGarcia@antioch.il.gov

CPA Application

CPA release waiver

Offender Watch

The Antioch Police Department is proud of their partnership with a sex offender registration and public notification program called OffenderWatch®. The Village of Antioch is part of a nationwide network of over 5,000 law enforcement agencies which includes 120 Illinois agencies. The service is a citizen-friendly, easy to use website that enables citizens to search for potentially dangerous sex offenders and predators, which may be in close proximity to their homes, places of work, schools, churches and day care centers.

The information is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week and is updated in real time by the Antioch Police Department as offender information changes and is reported. As part of this innovative service, citizens may enter any address of interest to them, and see a map and listing of all offenders within a user defined radius (.25 miles out to 2 miles) of that address. Citizens can then register the address to be continuously monitored by the Antioch Police Department, who will send to them an e-mail alerting them if an offender or predator should register an address within their specified radius of their address. Citizens may confidentially register as many addresses as they like, at no cost to them.

The purpose of the program is to lessen the anxiety of citizens by proactively alerting them should an offender/predator move within proximity to them, and to provide the highest level of security and safety to all Antioch citizens. The program also enables the police department to verify that offender addresses do not violate any safety buffers that may be implemented around protected institutions in the village, such as schools, day care centers and parks, and helps law enforcement schedule compliance checks for verifying information provided by offenders.

HALLOWEEN SAFETY TIPS

Do you know whose door your kids are knocking on while trick-or-treating?

Every home may not be safe. There are more than 850,000 registered sex offenders in the United States, many convicted of crimes against minors.

Before trick-or-treating this Halloween, sheriff’s offices and police departments advise parents to check their local sex offender registry. However, many parents may not know where to look or what information is most important on the registries. OffenderWatch, the nation’s largest network of local and state agencies managing sex offenders, shares its tips on reading and understanding sex offender registries.

OffenderWatch Safety Tips

Crime Tips

Have you witnessed a crime? Do you have any information related to a crime or any criminal activity? We have created an email for you to send in your tips. Again we don’t want your name if you don’t feel comfortable providing it.

Examples of information that should be given, depending on the nature of the tip, include:

- identities of the suspect(s), if known;
- descriptions of the suspect(s), suspect vehicles and suspect residences;
- indications of timeframe and day(s) of the week that the activity is occurring

Other pertinent information that is very important to report includes whether or not you have observed a hand to hand transaction if the suspected activity is drug dealing; whether the suspects possess firearms and whether or not there are children in the residence.

This email address is not for in progress crimes please call 911 for those situations.

Please send any tips or information to

crime@antioch.il.gov