Editing Needles, California (section)

===Public safety ===
On July 1, 2016, [[San Bernardino County Fire Department]] annexed the City of Needles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sbcfire.org/default.aspx |title=San Bernardino County Fire Department |publisher=Sbcfire.org |access-date=November 14, 2019 |archive-date=May 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512142727/https://www.sbcfire.org/Default.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> Fire Station 32 provides fire protection to the City of Needles and houses two Type 1 Engine companies, one Type 7 Engine company, one Water Tender and one 28-foot fireboat. The station is staffed full-time with career firefighters.

Since December 1989 the City of Needles has been patrolled by the [[San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department]] under the command of Captain Ross Tarangle from the Needles Patrol Station.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wp.sbcounty.gov/sheriff/patrol-stations/needles/ |title=San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department |publisher=wp.sbcounty.gov/sheriff/ |access-date=November 14, 2019}}</ref>