Cocoa Beach Police Department

The City of Cocoa Beach Police Department polices the city from its own Police Station on South Orlando Avenue, main phone 321-868-3254 (Cocoa Beach Police page).

The station address is 85 S. Orlando Ave.; the city's general address shown on the same page is 2 S. Orlando Ave., phone 321-868-3200, business hours 8:30am to 4:30pm (Cocoa Beach Police page).

The department describes a team of more than 90 people serving approximately 11,000 residents and over 2 million visitors each year. Its 43 sworn police officers work alongside civilian staff, telecommunicators, code enforcement officers, parking enforcement specialists and beach rangers (Cocoa Beach Police page). Its traffic and parking enforcement work is described as supporting the safe flow of vehicles and pedestrians, enforcing parking regulations and assisting during large events and peak tourism periods (Cocoa Beach Police page).

The department lists six areas of work: patrol and public safety, investigations carried out with local, state and federal agencies, community policing and outreach through neighborhood programs and youth engagement, order maintenance, traffic and parking enforcement, and emergency communications (Cocoa Beach Police page). The department also provides 24/7 dispatch and communications for police, fire and emergency medical calls in the city (Cocoa Beach Police page).

The Cocoa Beach Police Department is an accredited agency through the Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation (CFA), and its page states that biased policing by members of the department is prohibited (Cocoa Beach Police page). Commendations and complaints are handled through a link on the same page (Cocoa Beach Police page).

Call 911 for an emergency in Cocoa Beach; for anything else, the right number depends on the task, and the City of Cocoa Beach publishes separate lines for dispatch, the station, records, investigations and tickets.

The two dispatch non-emergency numbers appear in the city FAQ as the lines to call after hours about a malfunctioning traffic signal anywhere in the city (City of Cocoa Beach FAQs). During the day, the same FAQ routes a dark signal to 321-868-3219 or 321-868-3371, and problems on State Road A1A or SR 520 to the Florida Department of Transportation office in Cocoa at 321-690-3250 (City of Cocoa Beach FAQs).

The city's pages describe that dispatch line in two ways. The Police page says the department itself provides 24/7 dispatch for police, fire and emergency medical calls (Cocoa Beach Police page), while the Water Reclamation answer in the city FAQ says urgent after hours infrastructure problems go to dispatch via the Brevard County Sheriff's Office non-emergency line at 321-868-3251 (City of Cocoa Beach FAQs).

One practical point: the Records Division is reached by two different numbers on the same city page. Its contact block lists 321-868-3353, while the request instructions say to call the Records Division at 321-868-3265 (Cocoa Beach Police Records page). Either number is published by the city, so a caller who reaches no one on one line can try the other.

Below the chief and deputy chief, the department splits into a support services side and an operations side, each led by a major (Cocoa Beach Police Command Staff page).

The support services major is responsible for property and evidence, records, recruiting, training, the Beach Rangers, parking enforcement and marine patrol (Cocoa Beach Police Command Staff page). The operations major oversees patrol operations, the investigations division, motor units, school resource officers and the chaplain (Cocoa Beach Police Command Staff page).

The department's own menu adds the programs a resident is most likely to look for: a Patrol Division, Traffic Enforcement, Parking Enforcement, Beach Rangers, Police Records, Investigations, Community Relations, Security Surveys, Bicycle Registration, a Citizen's Academy, and Policies and Procedures (Cocoa Beach Police page). Those program pages sit under the main Police page on the city website (Cocoa Beach Police page).

The command staff page publishes direct email addresses and phone numbers for each commander (Cocoa Beach Police Command Staff page). For routine questions, the Police Station main line at 321-868-3254 is the general entry point (Cocoa Beach Police page).

Police reports are requested online through GovTransfer, or in person, by phone, by fax or by mail through the Records Division at 85 S Orlando Ave, 2nd floor (Cocoa Beach Police Records page).

The Records Division manages police records and their retention and release, handles state and federal statistical reporting, and also offers background checks, fingerprinting and notary services (Cocoa Beach Police Records page). The background checks cover the City of Cocoa Beach only; city government records go through the Office of the City Clerk instead (Cocoa Beach Police Records page).

The online route has four steps on the city page: register and confirm a GovTransfer account, choose New Request, select Cocoa Beach and the request type, and watch for GovTransfer emails with updates (Cocoa Beach Police Records page). Written requests are preferred for clarity but not mandatory, and staff review every record for exemptions and redactions before release (Cocoa Beach Police Records page). A completed request that is not picked up within 30 days is destroyed, regardless of payment status (Cocoa Beach Police Records page).

The published fees are: fingerprinting $5.00 per card for Cocoa Beach residents and $6.00 per card for non-residents, with no charge for children or for city employment; report copies $0.15 per single-sided page and $0.20 per double-sided page; $1.00 per CD or DVD; and notary service $4.00 per notarized page (Cocoa Beach Police Records page). Video recordings and photographs are sent to a private vendor for redaction, billed at the vendor's cost, and require a non-refundable $50.00 deposit paid in advance (Cocoa Beach Police Records page). Payment is by cash, check or money order payable to Cocoa Beach Police; credit and debit cards are not accepted (Cocoa Beach Police Records page).

Crash reports need a Sworn Statement for Crash Report form with every request, whatever the date of the crash, and the form can be submitted with the GovTransfer request (Cocoa Beach Police Records page).

Office hours are where the city's pages disagree. The Records contact block lists Tuesday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, and says the office is closed to the public on Mondays (Cocoa Beach Police Records page). The city FAQ says copies of police reports are available Monday through Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm (City of Cocoa Beach FAQs). Calling ahead before a Monday visit avoids a wasted trip.

The Beach Ranger program, listed under the Patrol Division on the city website, assists the Police Department with order maintenance on crowded beaches; on patrol, Rangers identify violations of City Code and pursue compliance (Cocoa Beach Beach Rangers page).

The program began in 2012. Between February and September, nine part-time Rangers cover the sand on weekends and on holiday Mondays, and a limited number of Rangers work year-round (Cocoa Beach Beach Rangers page). On the Command Staff page, the Beach Rangers sit with parking enforcement and marine patrol among the support services major's responsibilities (Cocoa Beach Police Command Staff page). Ranger training covers all-terrain vehicle operation, CPR, basic first aid, water rescue, traffic direction and code enforcement (Cocoa Beach Beach Rangers page).

Lifeguards are a separate service: the city says it works in coordination with Brevard County Ocean Rescue for lifeguard towers, which operate daily from 10 AM to 5 PM at the full-time towers it lists (Cocoa Beach Beach Safety page). The Cocoa Beach beach rules guide covers the beach rules themselves.

Parking citations are a city matter handled by the Finance Department, while traffic citations go to the Traffic Division of the Brevard County Clerk of Court (City of Cocoa Beach FAQs).

The city FAQ places parking citation processing at the Finance Department, 1600 Minutemen Causeway, Cocoa Beach, FL 32931, phone 321-868-3295 (City of Cocoa Beach FAQs). The city's Parking Information page lists the Finance contact at 2 S. Orlando Ave., the City Hall address, with the same phone and hours of Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM (Cocoa Beach Parking Information page). The two pages give different street addresses for Finance, so a call to 321-868-3295 before visiting confirms where to go.

City parking is enforced daily from 7 AM to 7 PM, including weekends and holidays, and is paid through the Passport Parking app; the city says payment must be completed as soon as a driver parks to avoid a citation (Cocoa Beach Parking Information page). Rates and resident permits are covered in the Cocoa Beach beach parking and fees guide.

For a traffic citation, the city sends drivers to the Clerk of Court's Traffic Division at 321-637-5413 (City of Cocoa Beach FAQs).

Last verified: October 21, 2026, against seven City of Cocoa Beach pages fetched that day: Police, Command Staff, Police Records, Beach Rangers, Beach Safety, Parking Information and the city FAQ list.