Rio Vista Police Department

The Rio Vista Police Department is a dynamic and proactive municipal policing agency responsible for the professional and effective delivery of services to the City’s 8,500 residents and thousands of annual visitors. The Rio Vista Police Department is recognized by the Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST).

Rio Vista, located in the eastern end of Solano County, is a unique community, enjoying benefits of rural surroundings while being centrally located between the major population of centers of Fairfield, Lodi and Brentwood. The Police Department enjoys tremendous support from the community and it provides residents and visitors alike thorough patrol and investigative services.

The Police Department participates in numerous community outreach programs and events that foster a sense of security and safety to those living and visiting here.

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General information

The City of Rio Vista Police Department welcomes and encourages all visitors of our online communities to contribute comments which are related to responsibilities of and topics pertaining to the Department. The Rio Vista Police Department’s Social Media account is operated by the Rio Vista Police department and posts are made by a Rio Vista Police Department staff member.

Comments posted to this page will be monitored. The following postings/comments are prohibited:

a. Comments not topically related to the administrator’s posting;
b. Content that violates City or Police Department policy, including abusive, harassing, intimidating, vulgar, obscene and offensive communications, communications that defame or libel others, and communications that infringe upon the privacy rights of others;
c. Disparaging communications or jokes that are based on race, national origin, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law;
d. Communications of any copyrighted materials, trade secrets, proprietary information, or any other highly sensitive confidential information;
e. Solicitation of others for commercial ventures or religious, social or political causes; or
f. Comments or communications that violate the Brown Act.

Please Note: The City of Rio Vista reserves the right to remove content that is deemed in violation of City policy or any applicable law. Any participants on the Department's official social media sites who are in continual violation of the posting/commenting guidelines may be permanently removed from the Department’s site. In general, individual complaints, concerns, and service requests may not be addressed through social media. Concerns, complaints, and requests concerning the City or Police Department should be directed to City Hall or the appropriate City department. Posts or comments are not considered delivery of notices or requests to the City, and it is not a substitute for public comment at City meetings or other public forums. Further, all comments posted by a member of the public are the opinion of the poster only, and publication of a comment does not imply endorsement of, or agreement by the City, nor do such comments necessarily reflect the opinions of the Rio Vista Police Department.

Also, please keep in mind that this is an internet page on facebook.com. Facebook, Inc. owns and operates facebook.com. It has its own policies and standards concerning what may, and what may not, be posted and the actions that it may take with regard to unauthorized posts. See "Facebook Community Standards" at www.facebook.com/communitystandards/.