Public Safety Department

208 N. Main Street

LaFayette, Georgia 30728

Police phone:   (706) 639-1540

Fire phone:  (706) 639-1555

Fax:   (706) 638-8673

Director Tommy Freeman

LaFayette's Department of Public Safety consists of the fire and police departments.

Director Tommy Freeman oversees the department's daily operations.  Robert Dunn serves as deputy director.

The administrative staff consists of receptionist/clerk Joan Goodman, court clerk Janice Bridges and administrative secretary Lillian Glasscock. 

The fire department is a full-time and volunteer department.  The city has a Class 6 rating. 

The Fire Department has a 1000-gallon pumper, a 750-gallon pumper, a 500-gallon pumper and a ladder/pumper truck.

The department's full-time firefighters are Capt. Robert Busby, Lt. Billy Narmore, firefighters Robert Dennison and Stacy Blalock, who is public safety officer.  The department also has eight volunteers.

LaFayette Department of

Public Safety

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The police department consists of two divisions.  The detective division has three detective positions: deputy director Robert Dunn Jr.; detective Robert Tate, who handles criminal investigations; and detective Pat Doyle, who investigates narcotics cases and is attached to the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force.

The patrol division is commanded by Lt. Kenneth Carreathers and Sgt. James Pledger, who is the departmental training officer and a shift commander.  Also serving as shift commanders are Sgt. John Scoggins, Sgt. Wesley Steele and Sgt. Randy Hicks, who is also the departmental canine officer in charge of the dual-purpose detection dog.

Patrol officers Darin Kelley, Denny Reyes, Benjamin Clift and Todd Manning are responsible for enforcing all federal and state laws and local ordinances.  The uniform division has 14 fully-equipped, marked patrol units with all emergency equipment, including in-car video systems and dual antennae radar units.

The department has two school resource officers.   School resource officer Stacy Meeks is assigned to LaFayette High School.  This officer conducts crime prevention seminars and junior police corps programs when school is not in session.  

A LaFayette police officer patrols the crowd at the city's annual Freedom Festival.  The bicycle patrol is also utilized in the downtown business district and in the high school parking lot during athletic events.