Lakeside Association Police Department

The Lakeside Association Police Department is a special security police formed at the beginning of the twentieth century to patrol and provide security for the private association and Chautauqua community of Lakeside, Ohio, United States. The two patrolman employed were invested with full police powers under the Ohio Revised Code, and were given authority to enforce chautauqua rules and regulations. In the 1950s the police force was dissolved and police protection was then the responsibility of the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office. A special division for Lakeside was formed for the Sheriff's Deputies assigned to the commumity. This division was later called the Lakeside Association Police Department. The department was headed by a Chief Deputy, and staffed by two Sheriff's Deputies and two non-sworn personnel employed by the Association who were titled Lakeside Security Guards.

Community Duties

Lakeside Police were responsible for patrolling the Association streets and property bordering Marblehead and Danbury Township, Ottawa County, Ohio, and they were also called at times to assist local police departments in Marblehead Danbury Township. The non-sworn personnel or Lakeside Security Guards performed most of the community building checks, patrols, and other non-law enforcement duties for the Association. Also community parades were escorted by both Lakeside Security and Lakeside Police. In 1989 the department was the first in the area to use computers and the software DataManagerPC for police report writing. This gave the department a tech-edge till 1995. After changes in the department in 1998 the computer system was again reinstituted till 2000.

Lakeside Police Today

The Lakeside Association Police Department was dissolved in 1994 due to personnel issues. The Sheriff's Deputies assigned to the Lakeside Police Department became "Lakeside Security Officers". The Sheriff's Office continued to patrol the community but it was under contract by providing one deputy through 1995. Danbury Township,Ohio Police supplied police protection after this through 1997 by having a roving patrolman in the community. After 1998 the Association continued to provide their own protection through its Lakeside Security Department. Former Lakeside Police, radios, computers, and misc. equipment was soon utilized by the department. Early in 1998 the department had two patrol cars, and several officers patrolling. This was the most staff ever employed at once in the history of the Department. Today the Lakeside Security Department no longer holds the traditions of the past. Security personnel are unarmed and uniformed with shorts and polo-shirts and patrol in golf carts and pick-up trucks.

Police Heads

1955 - 1984 Deputy Frank Thompson (Chief Deputy Lakeside Police Department)

1984 - 1994 Deputy Robert Bailey (Chief Deputy Lakeside Police Department)

1994 - 1996 Chief Robert Bailey (Chief of Security Lakeside Security Department)

1996 - 2005 Chief Nick Crawford (Chief of Security Lakeside Security Department)

1994 Police Department Listing

Chief Deputy Robert Bailey

Deputy Marty Matthes

Deputy Lanny Taylor

Officer Tim Woodruff

Officer Charles Frost

1998 Security/Police Department Listing

Chief Nick Crawford

Officer Marvin Rothenbuhler

Officer David Koran (Also Police Officer)

Officer Chic Suavey

Officer Lynn Clemons

Officer Sean Michael Smith (Also Police Officer)

Officer Jim Hiekes