Editing Citrus Heights, California (section)

===Police department===
[[Image:Citrus Heights - Police.jpg|thumb|The CHPD offices near the city hall]]

Police services in Citrus Heights were provided by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department until 2006, when Citrus Heights formed its own police department, attracting police officers from 62 different police agencies throughout California.<ref>{{cite web | title=Police Department - Official Website | website=Citrus Heights, CA | date=July 23, 2020 | url=http://citrusheights.net/222/Police | access-date=July 26, 2020}}</ref><ref name="City of Citrus Heights">{{cite web | title = Welcome to the City of Citrus Heights - Police | publisher = City of Citrus Heights | url = http://www.citrusheights.net/home/index.asp?page=713 | access-date = April 21, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090614055045/http://www.citrusheights.net/home/index.asp?page=713 | archive-date = June 14, 2009 | url-status = dead }}</ref> The police department is a full-service agency, with specialty units such as SWAT, Special Investigations, Traffic and School Resource Officers.<ref>{{cite web | title = Welcome to the City of Citrus Heights - Investigative Services Division | publisher = City of Citrus Heights | url = http://www.citrusheights.net/home/index.asp?page=1140 | access-date = April 21, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090705094334/http://www.citrusheights.net/home/index.asp?page=1140 | archive-date = July 5, 2009 | url-status = dead }}</ref> The department operates its own communications center, which answers emergency calls and dispatches police.<ref name="City of Citrus Heights"/>

In 2015, the city paid $2 million to the parents of an unarmed man shot by police during a traffic stop, and in 2019, the city paid $1.2 million to a man injured by police.<ref name=SecretSettlements>{{cite news|last1=Stanton|first1=Sam|title=Citrus Heights wanted this $1.2 million payout in police excessive force lawsuit kept secret|date=2019-11-18|url=https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article237488949.html|newspaper=The Sacramento Bee|access-date=2025-03-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Hubert|first1=Cynthia|last2=Chabria|first2=Anita|last3=Reese|first3=Phillip|title=Here are the people fatally shot by police|date=2017-03-12|url=https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article137805493.html|newspaper=The Sacramento Bee|access-date=2025-03-31}}</ref>