Editing Lake Elsinore, California (section)

===Public safety===
The [[Riverside County Sheriff's Department]] serves the entire Lake Elsinore Valley (including the nearby community of [[Lakeland Village]] and the City of [[Wildomar]]) from its regional station in downtown Lake Elsinore. The city once had its own police department, but it was disbanded in 1970 for budgetary reasons.

The city of Lake Elsinore contracts for fire and paramedic services with the Riverside County Fire Department through a cooperative agreement with [[California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection|CAL FIRE]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rvcfire.org/ourDepartment/ServiceArea/Pages/default.aspx|title=Service Area|website=rvcfire.org|access-date=March 13, 2019|archive-date=March 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190320055356/http://www.rvcfire.org/ourDepartment/ServiceArea/Pages/default.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> Lake Elsinore currently has three paramedic engines and one paramedic truck company operating from its four stations.

Fire Station 10 is located downtown next to the post office, which also has two CAL FIRE engines for supplemental protection. Fire Station 85 is located at McVicker Park and Fire Station 94 is located on the east side of the city off of Railroad Canyon Road. Rosetta Canyon Fire Station 97 is located on the northeast side of the city covering the Highway 74 corridor.