Palm Bay Police Department — Palm Bay, Florida

The Palm Bay Police Department polices the City of Palm Bay itself, a city of approximately 100 square miles, while the Brevard County Sheriff's Office handles the unincorporated land around it, including Micco and Barefoot Bay.

Palm Bay runs its own municipal department from 130 Malabar Rd SE, and that department answers calls inside city limits. The size of that territory is set out by Palm Bay Public Works, which describes the city as approximately 100 square miles.

The county agency draws its map differently. The Sheriff precinct page says its five precincts are established based on geographic unincorporated areas of the County, and the Cities of Cape Canaveral and Palm Shores. Palm Bay is not on that list. South of the city line, the Sheriff's South Precinct at 1515 Sarno Road in Melbourne publishes a separate non-emergency number for Barefoot Bay and Micco, (772) 663-6269.

The Town of Grant-Valkaria points its residents to the Sheriff as well. The Town of Grant-Valkaria lists the Sheriff's South Precinct, with an administrative line of (321) 253-6658 and a non-emergency line of 321-952-6371, as its law enforcement contact. Emergency calls everywhere in the county go through 911, which Brevard County 9-1-1 Administration routes to the public safety answering point that serves the caller's community.

Palm Bay Police headquarters is at 130 Malabar Rd SE, Palm Bay, FL 32907, and its non-emergency automated phone system is (321) 952-3456.

The department keeps a second public building. The Palm Bay Police page names a Police Sub-Station at 1575 Main St NE alongside the main station on Malabar Road. Both sites host the department's Safe Exchange Zones described below.

Direct office lines for the Palm Bay station are published on the Contact PBPD page and the city's Police Station facility listing. Both give the Chief's Office as (321) 952-3458. Jeffery Spears is Chief of Police, according to the department's Chief of Police page, which lists the same (321) 952-3458 number. The two city listings disagree on several division numbers, so this page lists only the lines on which they agree or that appear on a single dedicated service page.

Last verified: October 12, 2026, on the City of Palm Bay police pages and the Brevard County Sheriff precinct page.

The Palm Bay Police Department reserves 911 for a police, fire or medical emergency and sends everything else to (321) 952-3456, option 1 then option 0.

The Contact PBPD page lists the non-emergency line for property damage, a traffic accident with no injuries or roadblock, a runaway child who has returned home, barking dogs, loud music complaints, lockouts when the vehicle is unoccupied and not running, and lost and found property. Those are the calls Palm Bay dispatch expects on the automated system rather than on 911.

The same Palm Bay page lists what 911 is not for: general information, a power outage, a plumbing problem, a ride to a doctor's appointment, directory assistance or directions. Callers who reach 911 by mistake are told to stay on the line and explain, because call takers are required to call back every hang up.

For a 911 call, the Palm Bay guidance centers on location. Cell phone callers are asked to know where they are and give cross streets, mile markers, landmarks, and city and county names.

Palm Bay Police provides report copies, local background checks, ink fingerprinting by appointment, volunteer vacation house checks and two video-monitored Safe Exchange Zones.

Records are the most common counter service. According to the Contact PBPD page, copies of reports are generally available four to five days after the incident, and copies cost $.15 for single-sided pages and $.20 for double-sided pages, with an added fee for requests needing extraordinary clerk time. The PD Records lobby is open 8am to 4pm Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Background checks are narrow in scope. The fingerprinting and background check page says the Records Section runs local checks only, covering Palm Bay, in person at 130 Malabar Road SE or by phone at (321) 952-3461. The same page says ink fingerprinting is by appointment only at (321) 953-8917, that the department offers manual fingerprinting only and does not have Live Scan, and that the service depends on personnel availability.

Volunteers handle vacation checks. The city's House Checks listing says members of the Volunteer Citizens On Patrol (VCOP) conduct residential vacation house checks, with signed forms submitted to the Help Desk in the Palm Bay Police lobby, Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.

The Palm Bay Police page also designates two Safe Exchange Zones for child custody, private property and e-commerce exchanges: spaces in front of the main station at 130 Malabar Rd SE and the sub-station at 1575 Main St NE, with video surveillance on the lots at all times.

Palm Bay Police is organized into Uniform Services, Investigations and Support Services divisions, with an Internal Affairs Unit that investigates complaints and an Accreditation Management Unit that tracks state standards.

Patrol sits in Uniform Services. The Contact PBPD page says the Uniform Services Division provides 24-hour response to calls for service and preventive patrol across Palm Bay, and lists its K9 Unit, Marine Unit, Traffic Unit, UAS/Drone Unit, Bike Patrol Unit, Underwater Recovery Team, Honor Guard and Special Events among its parts. Support Services covers the Communications Center, Community Relations, Victim Services, Records, VCOPs, Crossing Guards and Logistics.

Oversight runs through two units. The Palm Bay Internal Affairs Unit, under direct authority of the Chief of Police, investigates complaints of misconduct by department personnel, which can be filed by email, phone, mail or in person at the station. The accreditation page explains that Florida Statute 943.125 in 1993 led to a voluntary state program requiring compliance with more than 250 professional standards, and that the Palm Bay Accreditation Management Unit keeps department areas in compliance with those standards.

Training has its own site. The Palm Bay Police page says that in 2015 the department completed over $1 million in improvements to its 40-acre training facility known as The Range, opened to police, fire and EMS personnel. The same page notes the department is recruiting police officers and seeking V-Cop volunteers to help road patrols with traffic control, house checks and parking enforcement.