The Antioch Police Department is a police

Police

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 department serving the East Bay

East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)

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 city of Antioch, California

Antioch, California

Antioch is a city in Contra Costa County, California. Located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area along the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta, it is a suburb of San Francisco and Oakland. The city's population was 102,372 at the U.S...

 in the San Francisco Bay Area

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History

The police department was created in 1872 to handle security and law enforcement in the coal mining town of hundreds that was 19th Century Antioch. By the 2010 census the department was policing over 102,000 Antiochites. The police chief is James Hyde. In 2011 the department expressed serious concerns for the lack of a planning for a safety officer at the future Antioch eBART station

Antioch (eBART station)

Antioch is a BART station under construction east of Pittsburg/Bay Point, the current terminus of the Pittsburg/Bay Point–SFO/Millbrae line...

. Due to funding issues, this station may be actually be policed in whole or in part by the APD instead of the BART Police Department.