Indian Harbour Beach police and fire

Indian Harbour Beach runs its own city police department and its own city fire department, both reached by 911 in an emergency (Indian Harbour Beach Police Department directory) (Indian Harbour Beach Fire Department page).

The City of Indian Harbour Beach lists the Police Department and the Fire Department among its city departments, alongside the Building Department, City Clerk, Public Works and Recreation (Indian Harbour Beach Departments page). Both pages share the City Hall footer address, 2055 South Patrick Drive, Indian Harbour Beach, FL 32937 (Indian Harbour Beach Contact page).

The two Indian Harbour Beach departments sit in separate buildings. The Police Department's listed physical address is 1835 S Patrick Drive (Indian Harbour Beach Police Department directory), and the Fire Department works from Station 56 at 1116 Pine Tree Drive (Indian Harbour Beach Fire Department page).

Other city departments support both. Indian Harbour Beach Public Works says it keeps city vehicles in working order, including police department vehicles (Indian Harbour Beach Departments page), and the Building Department's team includes a Fire Marshal who checks that buildings and structures meet fire and life safety codes through permitting and inspections (Indian Harbour Beach Building Department page).

Emergencies in Indian Harbour Beach go to 911; the police business line is 321-773-3030 and the fire department line is 321-426-2187 (Indian Harbour Beach Police Department directory) (Indian Harbour Beach Fire Department page).

One overlap is worth knowing in Indian Harbour Beach. The number listed for the fire chief, 321-773-3181, is the same number the Building Department gives owner/builder permit applicants for forms and appointments (Indian Harbour Beach Fire Department page) (Indian Harbour Beach Building Department page).

Indian Harbour Beach city pages also carry a Report a Concern link and a Notify Me sign-up for city notices (Indian Harbour Beach Fire Department page), and the Contact page holds searchable directories for the City Clerk, Police Department and Public Works (Indian Harbour Beach Contact page).

City staffing figures for the Indian Harbour Beach Police Department are twenty full-time officers plus a reserve officer, with eight civilian employees and three crossing guards (Indian Harbour Beach Departments page).

The city says Indian Harbour Beach officers answer more than 5,000 calls for service each year (Indian Harbour Beach Departments page). The same staffing description appears on the city's Contact page (Indian Harbour Beach Contact page).

Indian Harbour Beach officers also act as medical first responders. The city's About Us page says its community-oriented police officers are the first responders for medical emergencies and that each patrol car carries an AED (Indian Harbour Beach About Us page).

City budget records show how the Indian Harbour Beach department is funded. The November 2025 revenue and expenditure report in the January 13, 2026 City Council agenda packet lists a budget of $3,735,939 for police department personnel services, $27,815 for crossing guards and $271,730 for police capital outlay (Indian Harbour Beach City Council agenda packet, January 13, 2026). Those figures come from the report's budgeted column, not spending to date (Indian Harbour Beach City Council agenda packet, January 13, 2026).

Indian Harbour Beach city pages disagree: two describe a 100% volunteer fire department, while the Fire Department page describes career and volunteer professionals (Indian Harbour Beach Departments page) (Indian Harbour Beach Fire Department page).

On the Indian Harbour Beach Departments page it is a 100% volunteer fire department with approximately 30 members, ranging in age from their 20s to over 50 and coming from jobs such as mechanics, teachers, engineers, retirees and businessmen (Indian Harbour Beach Departments page). The About Us page also describes a 30-member, 100% volunteer department (Indian Harbour Beach About Us page). The chief's message on the Fire Department page, by contrast, describes leading a department of dedicated career and volunteer professionals (Indian Harbour Beach Fire Department page).

The Indian Harbour Beach budget report lists both kinds of spending: fire department personnel services budgeted at $515,636 and a separate volunteer firefighter stipend line budgeted at $16,000 (Indian Harbour Beach City Council agenda packet, January 13, 2026). Both descriptions are posted by the city and are stated here as written.

The department itself dates to May 11, 1965, when the Indian Harbour Beach Fire Department was established (Indian Harbour Beach Departments page). Its apparatus, according to the About Us page, includes a 75-foot aerial ladder truck, two engines, bunker gear and a thermal imager (Indian Harbour Beach About Us page).

Indian Harbour Beach firefighters, emergency medical technicians and paramedics respond to medical emergencies, motor vehicle crashes, fires, water and ocean rescues and hazardous conditions, the department says (Indian Harbour Beach Fire Department page).

A dated record shows the mix. The City Manager's report in the January 13, 2026 Indian Harbour Beach agenda packet says the fire department responded to 55 calls for service in December 2025, with 56% of them being rescue related (Indian Harbour Beach City Council agenda packet, January 13, 2026). The attached December 2025 chart breaks the month down by incident type (Indian Harbour Beach City Council agenda packet, January 13, 2026):

All shares are as printed on the Indian Harbour Beach chart (Indian Harbour Beach City Council agenda packet, January 13, 2026). The incident categories listed in the same report range from building fires, vehicle fires and gas leaks to water rescue, elevator rescue, emergency medical service and motor vehicle crashes (Indian Harbour Beach City Council agenda packet, January 13, 2026).

Prevention is also part of the Indian Harbour Beach department's stated work: the chief's message names prevention, public education, community involvement and strong partnerships as priorities, along with training, equipment and response capability (Indian Harbour Beach Fire Department page). The page invites residents to stop by Station 56 at 1116 Pine Tree Drive to learn about the department's work (Indian Harbour Beach Fire Department page).

Inspections also run through the Indian Harbour Beach fire side. The Fire Marshal handles fire and life safety review in permitting and inspections (Indian Harbour Beach Building Department page), and the City Clerk issues Business Tax Receipts, renewable each October 1, only after approval by the Building Official and the Fire Marshal (Indian Harbour Beach Departments page). The city's budget report lists revenue lines for fire safety inspections, vacation rental inspections and fire plan review fees (Indian Harbour Beach City Council agenda packet, January 13, 2026).

The Indian Harbour Beach Volunteer Fire Department announced three new resident programs in December 2025, among them File of Life and the Rapid Access Program (Indian Harbour Beach news flash, New Fire Department Programs).

The third Indian Harbour Beach program is Project S.A.F.E., listed in the same notice (Indian Harbour Beach news flash, New Fire Department Programs).

The Indian Harbour Beach news flash posted December 15, 2025 introduced the programs as new offerings for the city's residents (Indian Harbour Beach news flash, New Fire Department Programs), and all three remain linked from the Fire Department page along with a Get to Know Station 56 page (Indian Harbour Beach Fire Department page). Questions about the three programs can go to the Fire Department line, 321-426-2187 (Indian Harbour Beach Fire Department page).

A fire station expansion is a budgeted Indian Harbour Beach capital project: the November 2025 revenue and expenditure report lists $1,205,000 for Building: Fire Station Expansion (Indian Harbour Beach City Council agenda packet, January 13, 2026).

The same Indian Harbour Beach report lists $200,000 budgeted for fire department vehicles and $59,400 for fire equipment, inside a fire department capital outlay total of $1,464,400 (Indian Harbour Beach City Council agenda packet, January 13, 2026). The report's current and year-to-date columns show no spending against the expansion line (Indian Harbour Beach City Council agenda packet, January 13, 2026).

For Indian Harbour Beach residents, the practical checks are the city's agendas and minutes and its Notify Me alerts, both linked from the Fire Department page (Indian Harbour Beach Fire Department page). The January 13, 2026 Indian Harbour Beach council agenda, for example, listed a Police Department Promotion under presentations (Indian Harbour Beach City Council agenda packet, January 13, 2026).

Last verified: October 21, 2026, against same-day reads of the Indian Harbour Beach Departments, Fire Department, police directory, Contact, Building Department and About Us pages, the December 15, 2025 fire programs news flash and the January 13, 2026 council packet.