DIXON POLICE ANNOUNCE THEY ARE THE DIXON POLICE IN DIXON, CALIFORNIA

Dixon Police announced today they are the Dixon Police for the City of Dixon, California. Over the last year, there has been considerable confusion about which Dixon is their Dixon. It seems there are two other Dixons, one in Illinois and one in Missouri. Neither of those, however, are in California.

Everything from calls for police service to social media posts to Twitter accounts has caused Internet users to pick the wrong Dixon Police. Dixon (California) Police report they routinely get calls for strange streets and businesses, requests to speak to people who have never worked for the Dixon (California) Police, and reports of things not generally associated with Dixon, California.

“We can appreciate grabbing the first Google search result you see when you are looking for a phone number,” Chief Robert Thompson said. “And we do enjoy from time to time getting asked for directions to Ronald Reagan’s childhood home (816 South Hennepin Avenue) or when construction on Route 133 will be complete (June, according to MoDOT); we want to make sure when people need the police they get the right state.”

Also increasingly, Thompson reported users of the department’s social media page would be looking at the wrong city. “We recently posted a request for information about a suspect, and some of the responses identified the suspect as being from Rochelle, Illinois. While technically possible, it seemed more likely a Dixon Illinois resident landed on the wrong page,” he said. “While we love having as large an audience as possible, we don’t want them to get bad information.”

Thompson also pointed to a more serious issue of media and the public believing incidents or social media posts from other agencies in other states originated from Dixon California. He noted recently a local NBC station took some controversial posts from the Dixon Illinois Twitter feed and attributed it without noting the state. “It is possible people in Northern California are interested in reading news from a small city in Northern Illinois, but more likely the station didn’t realize they were looking at the wrong state,” Thompson said. The Dixon California Police do not operate a Twitter account. “As we’ve seen, Twitter isn’t always the best way to communicate clearly with people, and we’ve opted to use other mediums,” he said.

The Dixon Police Department’s official Facebook page (@DixonPoliceDept) can be identified with a picture of the Department insignia, which includes the word “California.” It also includes a map of the police facility, which is in California. And a California area code to the phone number. Dixon Police stressed while they don’t mind hearing about police life on the other side of the country, they don’t want the public to be confused or frustrated with calling the wrong place. The official website is www.dixonpolice.org.

“We’re sure all Dixon Police Departments are proud to serve their respective communities, we just want you to get the right one when you need the police,” Thompson said. Thompson has spoken to the chiefs of both Dixon Illinois and Dixon Missouri, who have reported similar instances of strange calls for service and information. “They’ve had requests for information on livestock registration, when the May Fair Parade is, and road closures for Grillin-n-Chillin,” Thompson said. “They thought they were being pranked.”

Thompson has sent Dixon California’s police patch to the other cities, and they’ve responded in kind. He plans to put all three on display in the department’s lobby. With Dixon California in the middle, of course.

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Dixon Police Capture Giant Reptile Near Wastewater Plant

Dixon Police responded early Sunday to a report of a giant reptile near the Municipal Wastewater Plant on Pederick Road. Officers discovered what they could only describe as a ”monstrous” creature swimming just below the water in Pond #2. While officers were assessing the situation, the animal surfaced, climbed from the tank and began prowling the northernmost section of the facility.

Officers estimated the animal was 30 feet long from snout to tail. One resident who owns the property next to plant said, “It was something right out of Jurassic Park. It was the size of small car.” Officers kept the animal contained by playing crocodile calls through an app one officer found for his phone. Being an alligator, not a crocodile, experts suggested it confused and angered the animal, who kept searching for the source. Animal Control officers arrived, assessed the scene, and advised they had no protocol or facility to house the prehistoric giant.

The state Joint Oceans Knowledge & Education foundation head, Dr. Steve Zissou, was called and responded to the plant with his team. Using advanced harmonic resonance techniques, Dr. Zissou and his team were able to lure the animal, whom they named Randy, into a secure storage container normally used to transport whales.

“You generally don’t see domestic alligators in Northern California, but then again you generally don’t see alligators large enough to eat a mailbox,” Dr. Zissou noted. He believes the alligator was flushed into the City’s wastewater system through a toilet and took up residence at the plant.

“It’s critically important people don’t flush animals into the sewer system. Despite what movies say, all pipes do NOT lead to the ocean”, he noted. Dr. Zissou suggested left undetected Randy could have made his way out of the plant and terrorized the city. “It could have been like an 80s horror movie.”

Randy will be held at Zissou’s facility, while arrangements are made to transfer him to an aquarium or Marine World where he can be studied. “He’s really a natural wonder,” he said.

Dramatic video of Randy’s rampage and capture can be viewed here:
http://www.latlmes.com/world/wwwdixonpoliceorgdinocapture-1