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The Coconut Creek Police Department serves Cocunt Creek, Fla., a community with one of the lowest crime rates in south Florida. The Coconut Creek Police Department plays a large part in everyday community life and helps provide a sense of order in the Broward County, Fla., community. The Police Department participates in civic life through law enforcement services, including bicycle patrols, general and special crime investigation, community involvement organizations, and traffic control and regulation. The department maintains a library of fingerprints of present and past residents of the city. The department dispatches patrol cars to respond residents home or business if a complaint originates in the Coconut Creek city limits. Residents are welcome to file reports in the Cocnut Creek Police Station in downtown Coconut Creek.

Founded in 1925, the Hialeah Fire Department is an ISO-rated class one fire department that provides fire protection and fire fighting personnel and equipment, emergency medical service, water rescue, hazardous material response teams and a variety of inspection services to industrial, commercial and residential property owners and citizens of Hialeah, Fla. The department is divided into five divisions: rescue and emergency medical services, fire prevention, logistics and emergency management, support services and training. Fire rescue operations personnel are assigned to 24-hour shifts working a 48-hour workweek. The department s nearly 300 member staff includes more than 160 paramedics, nearly 90 trained emergency medical technicians and approximately 30 civilian personnel.